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Annexe K.
TUNG WA HOSPITAL.
REPORT BY DR. C. W. MCKENNY, Visiting Medical Officer.
The Chairman (Mr. Tong Yat-chuen) and the Directors have conducted the affairs of this institution in a thorough and satisfactory manner during the year.
Buildings.-These have been well maintained but no important structural alteration has been made.
Staff. Dr. G. H. Thomas has again performed the duties of Resident Medical Officer in an eminently capable and efficient manner. Dr. C. S. Chan (M.B., B.S., Hongkong University) has joined the staff as Assistant House Surgeon.
University Students, (Medical Clinic).-During the year, as heretofore, students have attended for lectures and demonstrations in Chinese medicine given by myself and in the subjects of vaccination and pharmacy by Dr. G. H. Thomas. Selected students act for periods of 3 months as clinical clerks in charge of medical cases under Western treatment.
The following figures express the comparative results of Eastern and Western treatment. It should be understood that all cases admitted are diagnosed by a staff trained in European methods and the diagnosis is then confirmed or rejected by the Visiting Medical Officer. It is then quite open to the patient to choose whichever of the two forms of treatment he may desire. The methods of Eastern medicine are not interfered with provided they do not endanger public health and sanitation. To the credit of the Eastern practitioner it must be stated that he frequently refuses to treat conditions in which he believes Western methods to be more successful.
The total number of in-patients were divided thus:
Cases treated by Western methods, 3,558 " Eastern methods, 3,004 Total, 6,562This shows that 54.2% of patients preferred Western and 45.8% Eastern medicine.
Year Western Eastern 1917 55.1 44.9 1916 50.7 49.3 1915 52.3 47.7 1914 38.58 61.42 1913 31.63 65.37 1912 36.8 63.2 1911 31.4 68.61 T
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Annexe K.
TUNG WA HOSPITAL.
REPORT BY DR. C. W. MCKENNY, Visiting Medical Officer.
The Chairman (Mr. Tong Yat-chuen) and the Directors have conducted the affairs of this institution in a thorough and satisfactory manner during the year.
Buildings.-These have been well maintained but no important structural alteration has been made.
Staf. Dr. G. H. Thomas has again performed the duties of Resident Medical Officer in an eminently capable and efficient manner. Dr. C. S. Chan (M.B., B.S., Hongkong University) has joined the staff as Assistant House Surgeon.
University Students, (Medical Clinic).-During the year, as heretofore, students have attended for lectures and demonstrations in Chinese medicine given by myself and in the subjects of vaccin- ation and pharmacy by Dr. G. H. Thomas. Selected students act for periods of 3 months as clinical clerks in charge of medical cases under Western treatment..
The following figures express the comparative results of Eastern and Western treatment. It should be understood that all cases admitted are diagnosed by a staff trained in European methods and the diagnosis is then confirmed or rejected by the Visiting Medical Officer. It is then quite open to the patient to choose whichever of the two forms of treatment he may desire. The methods of Eastern medicine are not interfered with provided they do not endanger public health and sanitation. To the credit of the Eastern practitioner it must be stated that he frequently refuses to treat conditions in which he believes Western methods to be more successful.
The total number of in-patients were divided thus:-
Cases treated by Western methods,
27
"
**
Eastern methods,
Total,...
3,558 3,004
6,562
This shows that 54.2% of patients preferred Western and 45-8% Eastern medicine.
These figures compare with :-
Western.
Eastern.
55.1
44.9
in 1917
50-7
49.3.
in 1916
52.3
47.7
in 1915
38.58
61.42
in 1914
31.63
65.37
in 1913
36-8
63.2
in 1912
31.4
68-6
in 1911
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