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48. The number of children admitted continues to increase. They have a large airy ward to themselves.
49. Two wards have been set aside (one male and one female) for patients who are able to make some payment but cannot afford a private room. The charge in these wards is $1.40 per day including food and medicine. Each patient can, if he desires, bring in an attendant to help in looking after him.
50. The improvement in the health of the general staff continues and there are no cases now of Malaria. The nurses have mosquito-nets supplied to them and take prophylactic doses of Quinine.
51. Deaths in 1933 numbered 1,166. A large proportion of these died within 24 hours of admission.
52. A ward for the treatment of Opium Addicts has been set aside since June. These patients are mostly business men who find they cannot afford the luxury of opium in these days of depression. They appear to be earnest in their desire for freedom from their handicap. The course of treatment is usually complete within three weeks. So far 177 cases have been dealt with. The Government has been defraying the cost.
The Tung Wah Smallpox Hospital.
53. The Tung Wah Smallpox Hospital, erected in 1902 for the herbal treatment of smallpox cases, consists of six wards arranged in three two-storied blocks and faced by another group of three two-storied blocks intended for staff quarters and for administration purposes.
At a distance and separated by a yard are the kitchens, the servants' quarters and the mortuary. The whole is contained in a large compound.
All the blocks are connected by covered ways.
54. This hospital at the time of its construction was considered to have all the requirements necessary for the proper treatment of smallpox cases by Chinese methods.
55. There was room for 60 cases without overcrowding but there was no arrangement for heating the wards and no water carriage system.
56. 137 cases of smallpox were admitted during the year and one case remained in hospital at the end of 1933. There were 78 deaths, giving a case death rate of 57 per cent.
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48. The number of children admitted continues to increase. They have a large airy ward to themselves.
49. Two wards have been set aside (one male and one female) for patients who are able to make some payment but cannot afford a private room. The charge in these wards is $1.40 per day including food and medicine. Each patient can, if he desires, bring in an attendant to help in looking after him.
50. The improvement in the health of the general staff con- tinues and there are no cases now of Malaria. The nurses have mosquito-nets supplied to them and take prophylactic doses of Quinine.
51. Deaths in 1933 numbered 1,166. A large proportion of these died within 24 hours of admission.
52. A ward for the treatment of Opium Addicts has been set aside since June. These patients are mostly business men who find they cannot afford the luxury of opium in these days of depression. They appear to be earnest in their desire for freedom from their handicap. The course of treatment is usually complete within three weeks. So far 177 cases have been dealt with. The Government has been defraying the cost.
The Tung Wah Smallpox Hospital.
53. The Tung Wah Smallpox Hospital, erected in 1902 for the herbal treatment of smallpox cases, consists of six wards arranged in three two-storied blocks and faced by another group of three two-storied blocks intended for staff quarters and for administration purposes.
At a distance and separated by a yard are the kitchens, the servants quarters and the mortuary. The whole is contained in a large compound.
All the blocks are connected by covered ways.
54. This hospital at the time of its construction was con- sidered to have all the requirements necessary for the proper treatment of smallpox cases by Chinese methods.
55. There was room for 60 cases without overcrowding but there was no arrangement for heating the wards and no water carriage system.
56. 137 cases of smallpox were admitted during the year and one case remained in hospital at the end of 1933. There were 78 deaths, giving a case death rate of 57 per cent.
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