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western treatment only is provided shows that this view is not correct. Calculating on the figures for the last 24 years the case death rate at the Tung Wah was 48.25 per cent while that at the Government institution was 15.53 per cent.
17. Plague. For the last four years no cases of plague have been reported in Hong Kong. The disappearance of this disease not only from this Colony but from the greater part of China and its decline throughout the world are due to factors which are not understood.
18. Systematic rat-catching and periodical cleansing of houses were carried out throughout the year. The total number of rats collected was 174,272 of which 17,038 were taken alive, as compared with 174,239 and 12,792 in 1932. The number collected each year shows that there is no diminution in the rat population. All the rats collected were sent to the Public Mortuary for examination. None was found infected.
19. Cerebro-spinal Fever.-There was an out-break of cerebro-spinal fever in Hong Kong which was sporadic in character. Altogether 191 cases were reported with 118 deaths. No special foci of infection were discovered and few instances where one could trace the source of infection. The cases were treated in the general hospitals without any instance of spread of infection.
20. Sera manufactured at the Bacteriological Institute were used therapeutically.
21. Diphtheria.-With regard to diphtheria there is little to be said. The cases were sporadic and the sources of infection were seldom discovered.
22. Enteric. What has been said of diphtheria applies to enteric. The incubation period being so long and the possible sources of infection so numerous there is little chance of tracing in any case the source of infection.
THE DUMPING OF THE DEAD.
23. The number of bodies reported by the police as dumped was 1,347 as compared with 1,427 in 1932. In an endeavour to stop this practice chambers for the deposit of corpses have been established at all the Chinese Public Dispensaries. In some cases the top of the table is so arranged that the weight of a body on it closes an electric circuit which rings a bell in the caretaker's room. So far the chambers have not been an unqualified success and dumping in the street at dead of night continues to happen.
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western treatment only is provided shows that this view is not correct. Calculating on the figures for the last 24 years the casc death rate at the Tung Wah was 48.25 per cent while that at the Government institution was 15.53 per cent.
17. Plague. For the last four years no cases of plague have been reported in Hong Kong. The disappearance of this disease not only from this Colony but from the greater part of China and its decline throughout the world are due to factors which are not understood.
18. Systematic rat-catching and periodical cleansing of houses were carried out throughout the year. The total number of rats collected was 174.272 of which 17,038 were taken alive, as compared with 174.239 and 12,792 in 1932. The number collected each year shows that there is no diminution in the rat population. All the rats collected were sent to the Public Mortuary for examination. None was found infected.
19. Cerebro-spinal Fever.-There was an out-break of cerebro-spinal fever in Hong Kong which was sporadic in character. Altogether 191 cases were reported with 118 deaths. No special foci of infection were discovered and few instances where one could trace the source of infection. The cases were treated in the general hospitals without any instance of spread of infection.
20. Sera manufactured at the Bacteriological Institute were used therapeutically.
21. Diphtheria.-With regard to diphtheria there is little to be said. The cases were sporadic and the sources of infection were seldom discovered.
22. Enteric. What has been said of diphtheria applies to enteric. The incubation period being so long and the possible sources of infection so numerous there is little chance of tracing in any case the source of infection:
THE DUMPING OF THE DEAD.
23. The number of bodies reported by the police as dumped was 1,347 as compared with 1,427 in 1932. In an endeavour to stop this practice chambers for the deposit of corpses have been established at all the Chinese Public Dispensaries. In some cases the top of the table is so arranged that the weight of a body on it closes an electric circuit which rings a bell in the caretaker's room. So far the chambers have not been an unqualified success and dumping in the street at dead of night continues to happen.
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