AnnualReport-1937 — Page 478

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In Hong Kong Prison Hospital, Stanley, there is a hospital of fifty-seven beds with six cells for isolation cases and two padded cells. The Female Prison has nine beds for sick cases.

For cases which require special treatment there are prison wards in the Queen Mary and Kowloon Hospitals.

Sixty-five cases were transferred to the Government Civil Hospital and Queen Mary Hospital (thirty-four for X-ray examination and electrical treatment) for treatment not available in the Prison Hospital. Ten cases were transferred to the Mental Hospital and one case of smallpox to Kennedy Town.

There were seventy-nine deaths amongst the male prisoners and three amongst the females. The causes of deaths are given in the subjoined table.

Typhoid

Cholera

Pulmonary tuberculosis

Tubercular enteritis

Disseminated tuberculosis

Syphilitic aortitis

Table XXIX.

Males. Females.

1

2

37

4

1

1

Septicaemia

Cerebral malaria

1

Meningitis

1

Aortic valvular disease

2

Chronic myocarditis

17

Acute myocarditis

1

Aneurysm

Bronchitis

Lobar pneumonia

Pneumonia

Cirrhosis of liver

Acute nephritis

2

|

1

01

2

Senility

Acute cardiac failure

Total

1

1

2

1

1

1

79

*0

Seven male prisoners were released on medical grounds all of whoin were lepers; five female prisoners were also released, three suffering from leprosy and two from pulmonary tuberculosis.