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342. Infant statistics. During the year 3191 infants were born in the Tsan Yuk Hospital. The results are classified as follows:-
Macerated foetus
Stillbirths
Neo-natal deaths
Living infants
Total
Table LXXII.
28 61 69 3,023 3,191Still-birth rate (including macerated foetus)
Neo-natal death-rate
3.10%
2.16%
343. Infant welfare clinics. During the year much of the infant welfare work formerly done at the Tsan Yuk Hospital has been transferred to the newly opened Government clinics at the former Government Civil Hospital, thus enabling additional antenatal clinics to be held in the Tsan Yuk Hospital. Attendances at the infant welfare clinics have been as follows:-
Infant welfare clinics :-
New cases
Old cases
Total
Table LXXIII.
746 372 1,118344. Post-natal clinic. During the latter half of the year a post-natal clinic has been organized in the hope that follow-up work may be done on all cases discharged from the hospital. One of the special objects of this clinic is to provide contraceptive advice to suitable cases, and to this end close co-operation with the Hong Kong Eugenics League has been established. Another aim is to follow up all cases of pregnancy toxaemia, as a special study of this subject has been commenced.
GYNAECOLOGICAL UNIT.
345. During the year the following numbers of cases were treated:-
Table LXXIV.
Gynaecological out-patients :-
New cases
Old cases
Sterility clinic