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5. Total number of outpatients 12,651; i.e. average daily attendance of 34.66, but this figure is actually 2 × 34.66 as patients attend twice daily.
The following were the principal diseases including drug addiction:-
Scrotum Tongue Syndrome 4,126 Chronic Opium Poisoning 2,281 Chronic Pulmonary Tuberculosis 2,189 Scabies 2,047 Heroin 1,033 Hernia 233 Tinea and Dermatitis 64 Gonorrhoea 208 Syphilis and Chancroid 130 Beri Beri 11 Conjunctivitis 286. On admission to Gaol 108 prisoners were admitted to Hospital, 1,538 placed untasked in cell, and 2,497 on half labour. These figures are an indication of the condition in which many of these men arrive here and shew the need for some form of place of internment other than prison. Half labour does not really mean such, but is a convenient term for the doctor's party where only the very lightest of tasks are performed e.g. cleaning tins etc.
7. Following transfers took place during the year:
To Queen Mary Hospital 4 To Hospital re mental condition 5 To Infectious Diseases Hospital (small pox) ...Not included in this figure (Queen Mary) are cases for banishment who on ceasing to be prisoners were sent to this hospital because they were unfit to be discharged straight to care of Police.
8. 36 cases were sent to Queen Mary Hospital for X ray, returned same day. 1 case was retained (intra-capsular fracture R. femur).
9. 10 prisoners were released on medical grounds suffering from leprosy. One of these cases proved to be an inveterate house breaker and was kept in Prison under isolation. It should be noted that there is no real leprosarium in Hong Kong.
10. During the year although there was an epidemic of cholera in the Colony we were fortunate in not having a single case of the disease. Strict prophylaxis in the form of isolation of all new admissions to Prison for seven days, with inoculation against the disease, and stopping all outside food may have helped to prevent such cases occurring.
11. During the year there were 4 executions, death in every case being instantaneous; 245 floggings (2 cat-o-nine-tails and 243 cane) were attended during the year.
12. In general the health of the prisoners was very good, but admissions were marked as always by the large percentage of beggars, old men, emaciated derelicts of humanity suffering from drug addiction due I feel not so much to actual addiction as to first having some form of Tuberculosis and then starting to take opium in some form to alleviate suffering.
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5. Total number of outpatients 12,651; i.e. average daily attendance of 34.66, but this figure is actually 2× 34.66 as patients attend twice daily.
The following were the principal diseases including drug addiction:-
Scrotum Tongue Syndrome
Chronic Opium Poisoning
Chronic Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Scabies
Heroin
Hernia
Tinea and Dermatitis
Gonorrhoea
Syphilis and Chancroid
4,126
2,281
2,189
2,047
1,033
233
64
208
130
11
28
Beri Beri
Conjunctivitis
6. On admission to Gaol 108 prisoners were admitted to Hospital, 1,538 placed untasked in cell, and 2,497 on half labour. These figures are an indication of the condition in which many of these men arrive here and shew the need for some form of place of internment other than prison. Half labour does not really mean such, but is a convenient term for the doctor's party where only the very lightest of tasks are performed e.g. cleaning tins etc.
7. Following transfers took place during the year:
To Queen Mary Hospital
To Hospital re mental condition
To Infectious Diseases Hospital (small pox)
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5
Not included in this figure (Queen Mary) are cases for banishment who on ceasing to be prisoners were sent to this hospital because they were unfit to be discharged straight to care of Police.
8. 36 cases were sent to Queen Mary Hospital for X ray, returned same day. 1 case was retained (intra-capsular fracture R. femur).
9. 10 prisoners were released on medical grounds suffering from leprosy. One of these cases proved to be an inveterate house breaker and was kept in Prison under isolation. It should be noted that there is no real leprosarium in Hong Kong.
10. During the year although there was an epidemic of cholera in the Colony we were fortunate in not having a single case of the disease. Strict prophylaxis in the form of isolation of all new admissions to Prison for seven days, with inoculation against the disease, and stopping all outside food may have helped to prevent such cases occurring.
11. During the year there were 4 executions, death in every case being instantaneous; 245 floggings (2 cat-o-nine-tails and 243 cane) were attended during the year.
12. In general the health of the prisoners was very good, but admissions were marked as always by the large percentage of beggars, old men, emaciated derelicts of humanity suffering from drug addiction due I feel not so much to actual addiction as to first having some form of Tuberculosis and then starting to take opium in some form to alleviate suffering.
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