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Table XXX.
Total prisoners admitted,
Daily average
No. of inmates.
Total admissions to hospitals.
Daily average No. of prisoners to hospital.
Total out-patients.
Daily average number of out-patients.
Deaths.
Death-rate, i.e. No. of deaths to total admissions to prison.
Prison (male) 14,596 2,262 1,886 32.4 25,619 86.6 79 0.5 Lai Chi Kok (female) 2,492 231 369 9.4 707 2.4 1In addition to the male and female prisons in Hong Kong there are two remand homes, one for boys and another, under the supervision of the Salvation Army, for girls.
Forty-three boys were housed in the Remand Home for boys at the beginning of 1937. 1,114 were admitted during the year and forty-three were detained in the Home at the end of the year—apart from three boys in the Queen Mary Hospital.
The Home was visited by a Medical Officer once a week and the general standard of health was well maintained. Some 295 of the boys were inoculated against cholera and 470 vaccinated against smallpox. Scabies constituted the commonest complaint.
The Girls Remand Home accommodated 355 inmates during the year and their health was supervised by a Government Lady Medical Officer.
2. MENTAL HOSPITAL.
The Mental Hospital functioned as a separate institution after the closing of the old Government Civil Hospital in the summer of 1937.
The premises are designed to provide temporary accommodation for patients pending their transfer to Canton, if Chinese, or to Europe and other countries in the case of other races.