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OBSTETRICAL AND GYNAECOLOGICAL UNIT.
Report by the Acting Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology,
Dr. P. F. S. Court,
F.R.C.S., Ed., M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P., Lond.
This unit was under the direction of Professor W. C. W. Nixon, M.D.,
B.S., Lond., F.R.C.S., Eng., L.R.C.P., Lond., M.C.O.G., from the beginning of the year until 10th December. On 11th December, Dr. Court was appointed to act in his stead.
All gynaecological cases were transferred to the Queen Mary Hospital in June, 1937, and were subsequently treated there. The Tsan Yuk Hospital was devoted to obstetric cases only. There are now sixty beds for obstetrics in the Tsan Yuk Hospital and twenty-one beds for gynaecology at Queen Mary Hospital.
During the year the following numbers of cases were treated.
Out-patients department
New cases
Table LXIII.
Government Civil Hospital (Out-patients Department) Tsan Yuk Hospital Total New cases 1,890 338 2,159 Old cases 234 Maternity cases: Tsan Yuk (39 cases remained from 1936) 2,096 Government Civil Hospital until June (University cases) 336 Gynaecological cases: Tsan Yuk 140 Government Civil Hospital until June (University cases) 69 Queen Mary Hospital after June (University cases) 259 Total 468 Total 2,432