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An Infant Welfare Centre started a year after the opening of the hospital, has been maintained since and has done good work in checking minor complaints and helping the mothers who need advice in feeding and looking after their babies. The Mothers Union very kindly gave $30.00 for any special needy cases. Last year 374 babies paid 2,303 visits. Each baby is washed and weighed and inspected.
Gynaecology. In October 1925 we furnished a large ward on the second floor and filled up a small theatre and sterilizing room for gynaecological work. Patients needing hospital treatment who are seen at the dispensaries can thus be admitted and treated by ourselves. My most grateful thanks are given to Professor Tottenham for his generous and constant help in this department. I could never have ventured on this work single-handed, and it is an immense advantage for the hospital to have his skill and advice available. Last year there were 136 patients admitted to the gynaecological ward, and nearly a hundred operations were performed.
The Midwifery Wards have been fuller than last year and a great effort is made to keep the patients in for a week after confinement. There were 693 patients in the wards and 34 were attended in their own houses. These cases are only attended as emergency cases and we are not anxious to increase our exterior work to any great extent.
Venereal Disease Clinic. A start was made during the year on a small scale and so far 22 women have attended the weekly clinic and 46 injections have been given. I do not feel that we can press this work very much but something was done and we shall move slowly.
Miss Leung was sent for a course of training to the Rotunda Hospital last year and we expect her back in March. Our expectation is that the work will grow in all branches and that she will find full scope for all her knowledge and experience.
My thanks are due to the Committees of the Tung Wah and Kwang Wah Hospitals and the Chinese Public Dispensaries for bearing with me and supporting me on many difficult occasions.
A. D. HICKLING,
Assistant Medical Officer in charge of Native Hospitals.
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An Infant Welfare Centre started a year after the opening of the hospital, has been maintained since and has done good work in checking minor complaints and helping the mothers who need advice in feeding and looking after their babies. The Mothers Union very kindly gave $30.00 for any special needy cases. Last year 374 babies paid 2,303 visits. Each baby is washed and weighed and inspected.
Gynaecology. In October 1925 we furnished a large ward on the second floor and filled up a small theatre and sterilizing room for gynaecological work. Patients needing hospital treatment who are seen at the dispensaries can thus be admitted and treated by ourselves. My most grateful thanks are given to Professor Tottenham for his generous and constant help in this department. I could never have ventured on this work single handed, and it is an immense advantage for the hospital to have his skill and advice available. Last year there were 136 patients admitted to the gynaecological ward, and nearly a hundred operations were performed.
The Midwifery Wards have been fuller than last year and a great effort is made to keep the patients in for a week after confinement. There were 693 patients in the wards and 34 were attended in their own houses.
houses. These cases are only attended as emergency cases and we are not anxious to increase. our exterior work to any great extent.
Venereal Disease Clinic. A start was made during the year on a small scale and so far 22 women have attended the weekly clinic and 46 injections have been given. I do not feel that we can press this work very much but something was
and we shall move slowly.
Miss Leung was sent for a course of training to the Rotunda Hospital last year and we expect her back in March. Our expectation is that the work will grow in all branches and that she will find full scope for all her knowledge and experience.
My thanks are due to the Committees of the Tung Wah and Kwang Wah Hospitals and the Chinese Public Dispensaries for bearing with me and supporting me on many difficult
occasions.
A. D. HICKLING,
Assistant Medical Officer in charge of Native Hospitals.
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