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2. Kowloon Hospital.
215. The Report for 1937 should be consulted for a description of the hospital and its accommodation. A small infectious disease block of six single-bed wards was added at the close of the year. It enables a proportion of the cases of diphtheria, measles, typhoid and other infectious diseases to be nursed separately and away from the general wards. Needless to say, this block is too small to deal with the problem created by the existence of infectious diseases in Kowloon and the New Territories which can only be met by the erection of a large hospital capable of expansion to 500 beds. It is, however, a useful addition.
216. The question of a new general hospital of 500 or more beds for Kowloon received the careful consideration of the committee referred to in paragraph 206 of this Report.
217. One of the conclusions reached by this committee was to the effect that there was an urgent demand for general hospital beds on the mainland to meet the needs of the normal population—omitting altogether any question of temporary needs due to the refugee element.
218. Government sanctioned work on the site formation adjoining the existing hospital for the new general hospital pending the completion and approval of plans, and a start was made on preparing the site at the end of the year under review.
219. In-patients during 1938 totalled 3,524 as compared with 3,703 in 1937. This figure comprised 2,509 Chinese, 661 Europeans, seventeen Indians and 337 people of other nationalities. 1,253 operations were performed under general anaesthesia. Deaths among in-patients amounted to 292.
220. The out-patient service has been severely taxed. The number of out-patients seen during the year totalled 94,883, and to this figure must be added 743 and 3,536 attending the ear, nose and throat and eye clinics respectively, and 51,269 attending the venereal diseases clinic, the grand total for Kowloon Hospital being 150,431.
221. 1,905 patients were treated in the maternity block at Kowloon Hospital, a daily average of twenty-seven for the thirty-four beds. 1,761 women were delivered normally, three died in childbirth and there were thirty-four stillbirths. The maternal mortality was due in two cases to placenta praevia and in one to toxaemia.
222. Women of all nationalities were encouraged to attend the ante-natal clinics at Kowloon Hospital, and 4,466 availed themselves of the opportunity of doing so in 1938.
223. The average cost per patient per day, taking everything into account, was $0.81 as compared with $1.04 in 1937.
(a) Anaesthetics.
224. A full-time Government anaesthetist is employed and the number of anaesthetics given by this officer and by other Government medical officers, and the methods used are given in the following table:
M 39
2. Kowloon Hospital.
215. The Report for 1937 should be consulted for a description of the hospital and its accommodation. A small infectious disease block of six single- bed wards was added at the close of the year. It enables a proportion of the cases of diphtheria, measles, typhoid and other infectious diseases to be nursed separately and away from the general wards. Needless to say, this block is too small to deal with the problem created by the existence of infectious diseases in Kowloon and the New Territories which can only be met by the erection of a large hospital capable of expansion to 500 beds. It is, however, a useful addition.
216. The question of a new general hospital of 500 or more beds for Kowloon received the careful consideration of the committee referred to in paragraph 206 of this Report.
217 One of the conclusions reached by this committee was to the effect that there was an urgent demand for general hospital beds on the mainland to meet the needs of the normal population-omitting altogether any question of temporary needs due to the refugee element.
218. Government sanctioned work on the site formation adjoining the existing hospital for the new general hospital pending the completion and approval of plans, and a start was made on preparing the site at the end of the year under review.
219. In-patients during 1938 totalled 3,524 as compared with 3,703 in 1937. This figure comprised 2,509 Chinese, 661 Europeans, seventeen Indians and 337 people of other nationalities. 1,253 operations were performed under general anaesthesia. Deaths among in-patients amounted to 292.
220. The out-patient service has been severely taxed. The number of out- patients seen during the year totalled 94,883, and to this figure must be added 743 and 3,536 attending the ear nose and throat and eye clinics respectively, and 51,269 attending the venereal diseases clinic, the grand total for Kowloon Hospital being 105,884.
221.
1,905 patients were treated in the maternity block at Kowloon Hospital, a daily average of twenty-seven for the thirty-four beds. 1,761 women were de- livered normally, three died in childbirth and there were thirty-four stillbirths. The maternal mortality was due in two cases to placenta pracvia and in one to toxaemia.
222. Women of all nationalities were encouraged to attend the ante-natal clinics at Kowloon Hospital, and 4,466 availed themselves of the opportunity of doing so in 1938.
223. The average cost per patient per day, taking everything into account, was $0.81 as compared with $1.04 in 1937.
(a) Anaesthetics.
224. A full-time Government anaesthetist is employed and the number of anaesthetics given by this officer and by other Government medical officers, and the methods used are given in the following table:--
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