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1. Queen Mary Hospital.
207. The year 1938 was the first complete calendar year in the history of the Queen Mary Hospital which, it will be recalled, was opened on the 1st of June, 1937.
Many had doubted whether the hospital would be patronised by the general public owing to its comparative isolation from the centre of the city. The record of the year's work has proved these doubts to be without foundation. Far from being "unpopular", the reverse has been the case as demonstrated by the fact that the number of admissions totalled 10,819 in 1938 which is actually double the number for the former Government Civil Hospital during the latter years of its existence.
208. The number of in-patients remaining in hospital at the end of December, 1937, amounted to 307 and this had increased to 405 by the end of December, 1938.
209. The wards assigned for traumatic surgical cases were invariably full during the year under review; in fact, extra beds have had to be introduced on a permanent basis into these wards.
210. Two wards of twenty beds in each were opened for the treatment of those cases of pulmonary tuberculosis in which the prognosis was reasonably favourable to justify elaborate therapeutic measures as, for example, collapse therapy. Some 170 of the 546 beds have been allotted to the three University professorial units and the reports of the Clinical Professors are included in "Section IX, Scientific.'
211. Reference has been made elsewhere in this Report to the fly-menace from the Dairy Farm and to the fly-proofing of kitchens and infectious diseases wards.
212. Other changes included the purchase of a deep X-ray therapy apparatus at a cost of £5,500 and the provision of poison cupboards for dangerous drugs in all duty rooms (with still more rigid regulations regarding the custody and use of such drugs) following upon a particularly unfortunate fatality in which a small boy succumbed to the effects of atropine poisoning. Permission has been obtained to increase the staff of European assistant apothecaries and one will be in permanent residence at the hospital in future to supervise all dispensing and especially the preparation of solutions of dangerous drugs.
213. Further details of the activities of the hospital are recorded in Tables XVI and XVII. Attention is invited to the low mortality in maternity cases, which, of course, include many abnormal labours.
In-patients.
General
Maternity Total Daily average 10,117 702 10,819 362 Chinese European Indian Russian Other nationalities Treated by Government Officers 7,477 1,219 1,260 44 117 8,677
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M 37
J
1. Queen Mary Hospital.
207. The year 1938 was the first complete calendar year in the history of the Queen Mary Hospital which, it will be recalled, was opened on the 1st of June, 1937.
Many had doubted whether the hospital would be patronised by the general public owing to its comparative isolation from the centre of the city. The record of the year's work has proved these doubts to be without foundation. Far from being "unpopular", the reverse has been the case as demonstrated by the fact that the number of admissions totalled 10,819 in 1938 which is actually double the number for the former Government Civil Hospital during the latter years of its existence.
208. The number of in-patients remaining in hospital at the end of December, 1937, amounted to 307 and this had increased to 405 by the end of December, 1938.
209. The wards assigned for traumatic surgical cases were invariably full during the year under review; in fact, extra beds have had to be introduced on a permanent basis into these wards.
210. Two wards of twenty beds in each were opened for the treatment of those cases of pulmonary tuberculosis in which the prognosis was reasonably favourable to justify elaborate therapeutic measures as, for example, collapse therapy. Some 170 of the 546 beds have been allotted to the three University professorial units and the reports of the Clinical Professors are included in "Section IX, Scientific.'
211. Reference has been made elsewhere in this Report to the fly-menace from the Dairy Farm and to the fly-proofing of kitchens and infectious diseases wards.
212. Other changes included the purchase of a deep X-ray therapy apparatus at a cost of £5,500 and the provision of poison cupboards for dangerous drugs in all duty rooms (with still more rigid regulations regarding the custody and use of such drugs) following upon a particularly unfortunate fatality in which a small boy succumbed to the effects of atropine poisoning. Permission has been obtained to increase the staff of European assistant apothecaries and one will be in permanent residence at the hospital in future to supervise all dispensing -and especially the preparation of solutions of dangerous drugs.
213. Further details of the activities of the hospital are recorded in Tables XVI and XVII. Attention is invited to the low mortality in maternity cases, which, of course, include many abnormal labours.
In-patients.
General
Table XVI.
Maternity
Total
Daily average
10,117 702
10,819
362
Chinese
European
Indian
7,477
1,219
1,260
Russian
44
Other nationalities
117
Treated by Government Officers
8,677
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