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Table XXVI.
In-patients.
Tung Wah Kwong Wah Tung Wal (Eastern) Totals Chinese treatment 5,695 13,006 18,701 Western treatment 2,055 6,137 8,192 Combined 4,745 17,319 22,464 49,357 Operations 1,223 699 236 2,158 Deaths in hospital 4,398 2,347 6,890 13,635 Brought in dead 1,155 670 1,966 3,791 Death-rate per 1,000 in-patients 229 236 300 275Out-patients.
Tung Wah Kwong Wah Tung Wal (Eastern) Totals Chinese treatment 211,438 91,700 216,321 519,459 Western treatment 22,255 22,889 32,622 77,766 Combined 233,693 114,539 248,943 597,225 Eye clinic 15,239 960 3,148 19,347 Baby clinic 1,387 503 1,890 Ante-natal clinic 559 559 Anti-smallpox vaccinations 31,796 13,939 7,185 52,9208. Leper Settlement.
267. The steps taken during the year to deal with the leper problem in Hong Kong have been described earlier in this report. It is to be feared that the plans which had been made to enable lepers to be transferred to Sheklung will have to be postponed owing to the Japanese occupation of the Sheklung district.
208. 271 lepers were admitted to the former Tung Wah Infectious Diseases Hospital during the year. These premises were taken over from the Tung Wal Committee towards the end of 1938, the sum of $50,000 being paid in compensation.
269. They are dangerous and dilapidated and their early demolition is being strongly advocated before there is actual loss of life or injury. This should be practicable as soon as a new infectious diseases hospital has been built, since this will release for leper patients the premises used at present for infectious fevers.
270. In order to secure some degree of control over the inmates who came and went at will, committed theft, assaults, and so on, but were not detained in prison, steps were taken during the year to formally declare the premises a leper settlement.
271. This provided the medical authorities with power to detain lepers admitted to the settlement and to prevent them from going out into the streets and markets.