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Annexe E.

VICTORIA HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

REPORT BY DR. J. T. C. JOHNSON, Principal Civil Medical Officer.

Staff.-Five of the Nursing Sisters, one Staff Nurse and one Probationer Nurse were employed in this post during the year.

Admissions to Hospital.-201 persons were admitted as com- pared with 156 in the preceding year.

Deaths.-Eight occurred and they were caused by

Malignant malaria,

Septicemia,

Cancer of intestines,

Meningitis,

Cirrhosis of liver,

Prematurity at birth,

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Malaria.-Thirty-eight cases were admitted, of which thirty- three were due to the aestivo-autumnal parasite and four to chronic malarial poisoning.

The following operations were performed

Caretting,

For Hæmorrhoids,

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Repair of Perineum,

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Appendicitis,.

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Epulis,

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Removal of enlarged tonsils and adenoids, 1

Varicose veins,

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