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Appendix.
ANNUAL REPORTS OF MEDICAL OFFICERS.
MEDICAL
The following is the report of the resident Medical Officer, Hong Kong Prison, for 1938:-
Staff: Dr. G. Ingram Shaw was Medical Officer during year.
Mr. V. H. Freeman, Hospital Supervisor, went on leave in April and was replaced by Warder T. Pile. Rest of Staff consists of 9 Indian Warders of whom one is on long leave, leaving 8 for duties. It is to be remarked that only the Medical Officer is qualified in any way. The Supervisor on leave has had some R.A.M.C. training, but all the Indians have been recruited from discipline staff — an unsatisfactory state of affairs.
2. Total admissions to Hong Kong Prison during 1938 were 13,045. Of these 1,169 were 50 years of age or over,
3. Total admissions to Hospital during year were 1,797, daily average of hospital patients being 46.47. This figure whilst representing true hospital admissions does not include that large number of derelict humanity which is kept in the "Doctor's Party"; a party of men suffering from deformity, blindness, and tuberculosis, and totally unfitted in every way for labour. This party averages approximately 250-300 per day.
4. During the year there were 73 deaths.
Causes of death were:-
Apical Pneumonia 1 Lobar Pneumonia 8 Myocarditis 1 Fatty degeneration of the heart 2 Acute cardiac failure 1 Acute Dilation of the heart 4 Cerebral Haemorrhage 1 Chronic Pulmonary Tuberculosis 17 Acute Pulmonary Tuberculosis 3 Generalized Pulmonary Tuberculosis 7 Pulmonary Infarction 1 Senility 2 Cirrhosis of the liver 2 Fibro-Sarcoma of lung 1 Acute Nephritis 1 Chronic Nephritis 1 Acute Encephalitis 1 Strangulated and Gangrenous Hernia 2 Bacillary Dysentery 1 Septicaemia 1 Carcinoma 1 Myelitis of the cord 1 Chronic Appendicitis 1 Secondary Anaemia 1 Acute Enteritis T. B. 1 Bronchiectasis 1 Pneumococcal Meningitis 1 Total 73