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The following table gives particulars of admissions and discharges during the year.
Table XXXI.
Remaining from 1936
Admitted during 1937
Total
51
359
410
Discharged--cured
71
-relieved
62
--not improved
52
149
20
56
Transferred to Canton
Died
Remaining at end of year
The daily average number of patients was rather over seventy. The hospital was designed to accommodate thirty-two patients at one time. It will be appreciated, therefore, that overcrowding and lack of adequate segregation of different types of patients inevitably occurs, clearly demonstrating the desir- ability for a new and larger institution.
VIII.—METEOROLOGY,
Hong Kong is situated off the south-eastern coast of China between latitude 22° 9′ and 22° 17′ N. and longitude 140° 5′ and 114° 18' E. It enjoys a sub-tropical climate with a hot and humid summer from May to September when the south-west monsoon blows and a cool, dry winter during the period of the north-east monsoon.
During the year under review the highest monthly average temperature was recorded in August-93 F.-and the lowest in January-76.1-the lowest absolute minimum, 45.9 F., being registered in February. July was the wettest month with 19.315 inches of rain and from May to September 70.58 out of the total of 82.5 inches of rain fell.
The relative humidity was highest in March when it reached ninety-three per centum and lowest in October with a figure of forty-one per centum. Reference has already been made in the text to the disastrous typhoon which struck Hong Kong on the 1st of September, 1937, with a wind velocity of over 160 miles per hour.
Further details are given opposite in Table XXXII.
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