Out-patients.
Gynaecological
Ante-natal
M 50
Infant welfare
Totals
New cases. Return visits. Total attendances. 338 234 572 499 453 952 1,060 1,049 2,109 1,897 1,736 3,633Attention is invited to the low puerperal mortality rate for a hospital which provides accommodation in the main for the poorest class of Chinese.
The average daily cost per patient in 1937 for diets, provisions, fuel, light and kitchen staff was fifty-two cents.
5.-Infectious Diseases Hospital.
The Infectious Diseases Hospital at Kennedy Town on the Island of Hong Kong was built as a Police Station and, no doubt, was eminently suitable design for such purpose. The hospital is supposed to accommodate twenty-six beds in six wards. As might be expected such provision is entirely inadequate and it is hoped that it will be found possible before long to erect a new hospital on the mainland with rather more than ten times the number of beds available at present.
During the cholera outbreak of 1937 it was found necessary to bring back into use a portion of the old Government Civil Hospital.
Since no repairs or renovations had been carried out in this hospital for a long time in view of its closure, the premises were far from satisfactory from the hygienic standpoint and for the safety of the staff.
In all, 1,299 cases of cholera, sixty cases of smallpox and eight cases of chickenpox were treated in the Infectious Diseases Hospital and in the reopened portion of the old Government Civil Hospital.
6.-Social Hygiene Centres.
During the year under review four Government venereal diseases clinics functioned, two on the Island-one at the Queen's Road (old Government Civil Hospital) Out-patient Department and one at the Violet Peel Health Centre, Wan-chai-and two in Kowloon-one close to the Docks and the second at Kowloon Hospital. Subsidiary clinics were also in operation at Taipo and Un Long in the New Territories.
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Out-patients.
Gynaecological
Ante-natal
M 50
Infant welfare
Totals
New
Return
cases.
visits.
Total attendances.
338
234
572
499
453
952
1,060
1,049
2,109
1,897
1,736
3,633
Attention is invited to the low puerperal mortality rate for a hospital which provides accommodation in the main for the poorest class of Chinese.
The average daily cost per patient in 1937 for diets, pro- visions, fuel, light and kitchen staff was fifty-two cents.
5.-Infectious Diseases Hospital.
The Infectious Diseases Hospital at Kennedy Town on the Island of Hong Kong was built as a Police Station and, no doubt, was of erninently suitable design for such purpose. The hospital is supposed to accommodate twenty-six beds in six wards. As might be expected such provision is entirely inade- quate and it is hoped that it will be found possible before long to erect a new hospital on the mainland with rather more than ten times the number of beds available at present.
During the cholera outbreak of 1937 it was found necessary to bring back into use a portion of the old Government Civil Hospital.
Since no repairs or renovations had been carried out in this hospital for a long time in view of its closure, the premises were far from satisfactory from the hygienic standpoint and for the safety of the staff.
In all, 1,299 cases of cholera, sixty cases of smallpox and eight cases of chickenpox were treated in the Infectious Diseases Hospital and in the reopened portion of the old Government Civil Hospital.
6.-Social Hygiene Centres.
During the year under review four Government venereal diseases clinics functioned, two on the Island-one at the Queen's Road (old Government Civil Hospital) Out-patient Departinent and one at the Violet Peel Health Centre, Wan- chai-and two in Kowloon-one close to the Docks and the second at Kowloon Hospital. Subsidiary clinics were also in operation at Taipo and Un Long in the New Territories.
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