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Annexe K.
TUNG WA HOSPITAL.
REPORT BY DR. C. W. MCKENNY, Visiting Medical Officer.
The Chairman (Mr. Ho Kwong) 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 and important structural alterations made as follows:-
(1.) The creation of a midwifery department which includes an excellent labour ward.
(2.) Alterations to the operating theatre, which, with an increased supply of instruments and special sterilising facilities, greatly enhance the value of the former theatre.
Staff Drs. G. H. Thomas and C. S. Chan have performed the duties of Resident Medical Officer and Assistant Resident Medical Officer in an eminently capable and efficient manner.
University Students, (Medical Clinic). During the year, as heretofore, students have attended for lectures and demonstrations in clinical medicine given by myself and in the subjects of vaccination and pharmacy by Dr. G. H. Thomas. Selected students act for periods of three months as clinical clerks in charge of medical cases under Western treatment.
Dr. G. H. Thomas has also acted as Tutor in midwifery to students who during a period of residence in the hospital attend the midwifery clinic.
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, 3,764
Eastern methods, 3,238
Total, 7,002
M 57
Annexe K.
TUNG WA HOSPITAL.
REPORT BY DR. C. W. MCKENNY, Visiting Medical Officer.
The Chairman (Mr. Ho Kwong) and the Directors have con- ducted the affairs of this institution in a thorough and satisfactory manner during the year.
Buildings. These have been well maintained and important structural alterations made as follows:-
(1.) The creation of a midwifery department which includes an excellent labour ward.
(2.) Alterations to the operating theatre, which, with an increas- ed supply of instruments and special sterilising facilities, greatly enhance the value of the former theatre.
Staff Drs. G. H. Thomas and C. S. Chan have performed the duties of Resident Medical Officer and Assistant Resident Medical Officer in an eminently capable and efficient manner.
University Students, (Medical Clinic). During the year, as heretofore, students have attended for lectures and demonstrations in clinical medicine given by myself and in the subjects of vaccina- tion and pharmacy by Dr. G. H. Thomas. Selected students act for periods of three months as clinical clerks in charge of medical cases under Western treatment.
Dr. G. H. Thomas has also acted as Tutor in midwifery to students who during a period of residence in the hospital attend the midwifery clinic.
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,
3,764
Eastern methods,
3,238
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Total,
7,002
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