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Appendix VII.
(a) HONG KONG PRISON.
Dr. G. I. Shaw carried out the duties of medical officer till the fourth of August, 1939, when he went on home leave. He was relieved by Dr. A. H. Barwell.
2. During the year a series of lectures were given to the Indian staff by the medical officer, hospital supervisor and his assistant. An improvement has been seen in the Indian staff during the year, in consequence of these lectures.
3. Total admissions to Hong Kong Prison, Stanley, during 1939 were 11,964. Of these 824 were fifty years of age and over.
4. Total admissions to the prison hospital during the year were 2,467, daily average of hospital patients being forty-seven. This figure does not include patients kept under observation in "G" Block now attached to the hospital.
5. Total number of prisoners reporting sick was 16,772, making a daily average of fifty-four.
6. Total number of prisoners on outdoor treatment during the year was 38,856. These prisoners attended hospital twice daily for treatment making a daily average of 213.
7. On admission to prison 204 prisoners were directly admitted to hospital, 2,174 placed untasked in cell, and 1,816 on half-labour.
8. Following were principal diseases prisoners were suffering from on admission to prison:-
Table I.
Chronic tuberculosis 572 Chronic opium poisoning 2,720 Heroin 1,020 Scabies 2,171 Venereal disease 360 Hernia 136 Tinea 151 Myocarditis 1239. During the year there were sixty-three deaths, causes of deaths were:
Table II.
Typhoid fever 1 Bacillary dysentery 4 Pulmonary tuberculosis 20 Generalized tuberculosis 2 Tuberculous enteritis 2 Syphilitic aortitis 2 Streptococcal septicaemia 1 Ankylostomiasis 1 Carcinoma of the mediastinum 1 Tumour of the brain 1 Abscess of brain 1 Cerebral haemorrhage 3 Acute dilatation of heart 1