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influence of the drug in varying degrees, the slow gradual withdrawal method of cure is more effectual and safer than the rapid and sudden cutting down of the habitual intake, which necessitates careful supervision and control of the patient else collapse and a fatal issue may follow.
Parasitic Skin Disease and Venereal Disease call for rigid supervision and treatment coming as they do as new admissions amongst healthy prisoners in the main employed on Industrial Hard Labour.
Tuberculosis provided almost 50% of the total deaths, there being 29 cases with 12 resultant deaths.
The total admissions to the Gaol are low in comparison with 1924, this being due to the decrease in the Chinese population consequent on the strike, but as the average sentence of individual prisoners was longer, the daily average number in the Gaol increased in proportion. Dr. D. W. Pope was in medical charge of the Prison for the greater part of the year until relieved by Dr. J. R. Craig in November. An addition to the Prison Staff was made during the year, by the appointment of Mr. D. E. Wood on April 1, 1925, for duty at the hospital. The Prison Staff treated as Out-Patients totalled 419. There were also 156 staff admissions to the Government Civil Hospital during the year. Attention was also given to the families of the Subordinate Staff of the Prison in their homes as required.
DEATHS.
Nephritis 2 Septicaemia 1 Fractured Skull and intercranial Haemorrhage 1 Acute Fatty Degeneration of Liver 1EXECUTIONS.
Carried out in the due course of law, numbered 2
HOSPITAL IN-PATIENTS.
Total 580
Individual Diseases with Numbers are Entered in Attached Table I.
HOSPITAL OUT-PATIENTS.
Total 18,603
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influence of the drug in varying degrees, the slow gradual with- drawal method of cure is more effectual and safer than, the rapid and sudden cutting down of the habitual intake, which neces- sitates careful supervision and control of the patient else col- lapse and a fatal issue may follow.
Parasitic Skin Disease and Veneral Disease call for rigid supervision and treatment coming as they do as new admissions. amongst healthy prisoners in the main employed on Indus. trial Hard Labour.
Tuberculosis provided almost 50% of the total deaths, there being 29 cases with 12 resultant deaths.
The total admissions to the Gaol are low in comparison with 1924, this being due to the decrease in the Chinese popula- tion consequent on the strike, but as the average sentence of individual prisoners was longer, the daily average number in the Gaol increased in proportion. Dr. D. W. Pope was in medical charge of the Prison for the greater part of the year until relieved by Dr. J. R. Craig in November. An addition to the Prison Staff was made during the year, by the appointment of Mr. D.E. Wood on April 1, 1925, for duty at the hospital. The Prison Staff treated as Out-Patients totalled 419. There were also 156 staff admissions to the Government Civil Hospital during the year. Attention was also given to the families of the Subordinate Staff of the Prison in their homes as required.
DEATHS.
Nephritis
2
Septicaemia
1
Fractured Skull and intercranial
Haemorrhage
1
Acute Fatty Degeneration of Liver. I
EXECUTIONS.
Carried out in the due course of law, numbered 2
HOSPITAL IN-PATIENTS.
Total 580
Individual Diseases with Numbers are Entered in Attached Table I.
HOSPITAL OUT-PATIENTS.
Total 18,603
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