C 19
23. A great many patients come to the Tung Wah Hospital from outside the Colony attracted by its fame and its unstinted charity.
24. A large proportion of the deaths in the Hospital occur within twenty-four hours of admission. The sick poor go in to die there. Relatives bring in their dying when they wish to avoid postmortems. Six hundred and forty-nine were brought in moribund.
25. Those 'brought in dead' include bodies sent from ships in harbour; and from neighbouring hospitals; and from the Public Dispensaries; and also from private houses.
26. The number of vaccinations does not increase on account of new Vaccination Stations established outside.
27. Though the number of patients who choose their own herbalists to treat their complaints is still too large, most of these are not suffering seriously. For anything very important they learn by experience to put themselves in the hands of a scientifically trained doctor.
28. The X-ray Department continues to justify itself.
THE KWONG WAH HOSPITAL.
29. General beds 231. Maternity beds 51. 16 beds in the new Tuberculosis ward. Private wards 12.
30. This Hospital does for Kowloon and the Peninsula what the Tung Wah Hospital does for the island of Hong Kong.
31. The accommodation cannot keep pace with the growth in population. Kowloon has considerably more than doubled itself during the last ten years. No patient is turned away for want of room: and in both medical and surgical wards it is common to find two in a bed, and others sleeping on the floor.
32. The staff consists of a Senior Resident Medical Officer, whose salary is paid by the Government, and three Junior Medical Officers. Before the year 1932 there were only two Juniors.
33. There are also a number of Chinese Herbalists, without any recognised qualification, who practise Chinese medicine and are paid by Hospital funds.
34. The patients, on admittance, can choose whether they desire treatment on Western or Chinese lines.
- C 19
23. A great many patients come to the Tung Wah Hospital from outside the Colony attracted by its fame and its unstinted charity.
24. A large proportion of the deaths in the Hospital occur within twenty-four hours of admission. The sick poor go in to die there. Relatives bring in their dying when they wish to avoid postmortems. Six hundred and forty-nine were brought in moribund.
25. Those 'brought in dead' include bodies sent from ships in harbour; and from neighbouring hospitals; and from the Public Dispensaries; and also from private houses.
26. The number of vaccinations does not increase on account of new Vaccination Stations established outside.
27. Though the number of patients who choose their own herbalists to treat their complaints is still too large, most of these are not suffering seriously. For anything very important they learn by experience to put themselves in the hands of a scientifically trained doctor.
28. The X-ray Department continues to justify itself.
THE KWONG WAH HOSPITAL.
29. General beds 231. Maternity beds 51. 16 beds in the new Tuberculosis ward. Private wards 12.
30. This Hospital does for Kowloon and the Peninsula what the Tung Wah Hospital does for the island of Hong Kong,
31. The accommodation cannot keep pace with the growth in population. Kowloon has considerably more than doubled itself during the last ten years.. No patient is turned away for want of room: and in both medical and surgical wards it is common to find two in a bed, and others sleeping on the floor.
32. The staff consists of a Senior Resident Medical Officer, whose salary is paid by the Government, and three Junior Medical Officers. Before the year 1932 there were only two Juniors.
33. There are also a number of Chinese Herbalists, without any recognised qualification, who practise Chinese medicine and are paid by Hospital funds.
34. The patients, on admittance, can choose whether they desire treatment on Western or Chinese lines.
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