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230. It is hoped eventually to build up a reserve of 150-200 milligrammes when the price returns to what has been regarded in more recent years as normal, that is to say, about £4 per milligramme, and in the meantime to exploit as far as possible the new deep X-ray therapy apparatus obtained at a cost of about £5,500 in 1938.
3. Tsan Yuk Maternity Hospital.
231. The Tsan Yuk Hospital is maintained as a maternity hospital and can take sixty cases. The subjoined table gives the record for 1938.
In-patients.
Remaining at end of 1937 49 New cases 575 Admissions in 1938 2,400 Return attendances 489 Total treated 2,449 Total visits 1,064 Maternity cases 2,096 Out-patients. Ante-natal 1,346 Deliveries 2,272 Infant welfare 1,783 Maternal deaths 10 Total 3,129 Maternal death-rate per 1,000 live births 4.4 Infant deaths 82 Still-births ...Table XX.
4. The Infectious Diseases Hospital.
232. The building which was originally designed as a police station is scheduled to accommodate forty-two beds in six wards. The premises are unsuited for hospital wards, and the provision made for infectious diseases proved insufficient during the year under review.
233. Another important addition to hospital accommodation was made at the height of the smallpox epidemic when bed-space in the existing Infectious Diseases Hospital became quite inadequate to meet demands. Three fly-proofed wards having a capacity of forty-five to sixty beds and with the necessary offices were built in the record time of nine days under the supervision of the Public Works Department. They proved particularly useful.
234. During 1938, 848 cases of smallpox, 248 cases of cholera, 142 cases of meningitis, eight cases of chickenpox and thirteen cases of measles were treated in the Infectious Diseases Hospital. In August, owing to their large number, cholera cases were transferred to the special cholera hospital at Lai Chi Kok which has been referred to in a previous section, and were only brought back to Kennedy Town in November when the epidemic was abating.