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suffered from a visitation of cholera. The disease appeared towards the end of July, in which month thirteen cases were discovered. By the time the last victim came under observation in December, some 1,082 persons had lost their lives.
The third distressing occurrence of major importance which afflicted Hong Kong in 1937 was a particularly severe typhoon which devastated the Colony on the 2nd of September.
No accurate estimate of the actual loss of life is possible. Suffice it to say that some 490 bodies of persons who had been drowned or killed were picked up, mainly on the foreshore at the eastern entrance to the harbour.
Owing to the lapse of time between death and the discovery of the bodies, autopsies were impracticable in many cases. Nearly three hundred of the dead were found in the New Territories, 166 of this number being found at Taipo, where many houses collapsed as a result of the tidal wave.
On the other side of the picture, the opening of the Queen Mary Hospital on the 13th of April, 1937, constituted an event of outstanding importance in the history of the Colony, and more especially, in connection with the care of the sick and suffering and medical education.
This magnificent hospital of 546 beds, with completely modern equipment in all departments, built at a cost of nearly four million dollars (£250,000), replaced the old Government Civil Hospital, parts of which dated back over seventy years.
The new building fills a long-felt want and enables clinical training to occupy its rightful place in medical education in this Colony.
The completion of the Shing Mun Jubilee Dam, which allows of the impounding of three thousand million gallons of water, served as a landmark in the development of public health utilities in these territories.
(II) COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.
(a) Mosquito or insect-borne diseases.
Since the organisation of anti-malarial work under the auspices of the Malaria Bureau, a branch of the Laboratory Division, malaria has become a relatively unimportant disease in the urban areas. It still requires careful watching and control lest it gives rise to the outbreaks that preceded the establishment of the Bureau. The infection rate remains high in certain rural areas, where lack of funds and local agricultural customs make remedial measures impracticable. The subject is dealt with in detail in the Report of the Malaria Bureau in Section IX, Scientific.
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suffered from a visitation of cholera. The disease appeared towards the end of July in which month thirteen cases were discovered. By the time the last victim came under observation in December, some 1,082 persons had lost their lives.
The third distressing occurrence of major importance which afflicted Hong Kong in 1937 was a particularly severe typhoon which devastated the Colony on the 2nd of September.
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No accurate estimate of the actual loss of life is possible. Suffice it to say that some 490 bodies of persons who had been drowned or killed were picked up mainly on the foreshore at the eastern entrance to the harbour.
Owing to the lapse of time between death and the discovery of the bodies autopsies were impracticablé in many cases. Nearly three hundred of the dead were found in the New Territories, 166 of this number being found at Taipo where many houses collapsed as the result of the tidal wave.
On the other side of the picture, the opening of the Queen Mary Hospital on the 13th of April, 1937, constituted an event of outstanding importance in the history of the Colony, and. inore especially, in connection with the care of the sick and suffering and medical education.
This magnificent hospital of 546 beds with completely modern equipment in all departments, built at a cost of nearly four million dollars (£250,000), replaced the old Government Civil Hospital parts of which dated back over seventy years.
The new building fills a long felt want and enables clinical training to occupy its rightful place in medical education in this Colony.
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The completion of the Shing Mun Jubilee Dam which allows of the impounding of three thousand million gallons of water served as a landmark in the development of public health
utilities in these territories.
(II) COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.
(a) Mosquito or insect-borne discases.
Since the organisation of anti-malarial work under the auspices of the Malaria Bureau, a branch of the Laboratory Division, malaria has become a relatively unimportant disease in the urban areas. It still requires careful watching and control lest it gives rise to the outbreaks that preceded the establishment of the Bureau. The infection rate remains high in certain rural areas where lack of funds and local agricultural customs make remedial measures impracticable. The subject is dealt with in detail in the Report of the Malaria Bureau in Section IX, Scientific.
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