M.52
286. The numbers in the first column showing the ward capacities are taken from the Report for 1935.
287. The daily average number of patients was 83 during the year under review, and the overcrowding was at its worst during the last three months of the year. This is to be accounted for by the fact that during the latter part of the year many villages were bombed from the air and many hundreds of unarmed civilians were machine-gunned as they fled from their homes. Such action inevitably leaves a trail of mental disease behind and it must be stressed that sixty-five of the year's admissions gave a history which directly linked the onset of their disease to the Sino-Japanese "Incident".
288. The overcrowding which is a constant feature in the Mental Hospital does not make the treatment of war psychoses easy, and, in fact, treatment of any sort becomes very difficult in a ward holding more than six times the number of patients it was built for. The necessity for a new and properly equipped Mental Hospital becomes more pressing day by day but must take its turn with other even more urgent hospital needs.
289. In the meantime, Government has sanctioned the conversion of part of the staff quarters attached to the former Government Civil Hospital into wards suitable for the quieter type of mental patient. This will be a welcome addition and will relieve, at least temporarily, the worst of the overcrowding in the existing Mental Hospital.
290. It is to be fervently hoped that China will soon enjoy peace again, so that the normal procedure can be followed once more of transferring Chinese nationals suffering from mental disease to the Mental Hospital at Canton.
291. The attached table gives a rough classification of the conditions for which patients were admitted and treated during the year. A glance at the group entitled "General Diseases" indicates some of the difficulties with which the authorities of the Mental Hospital have to deal—particularly as no accommodation is available under the present overcrowded conditions for the observation of suspects sent in by the Police, private practitioners, the staff of the Chinese hospitals, and others. Such cases included patients who were eventually found to be suffering from widely differing conditions as cerebral abscess, cerebro-spinal meningitis, lobar pneumonia, pulmonary tuberculosis, sinus thrombosis, smallpox, and typhoid fever.
Remaining from 1937
Admitted during 1938
Total
Page 450
Page 451
Discharged—cured
—relieved
—not improved
Transferred to Canton
Died
Remaining at end of year
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286. The numbers in the first column showing the ward capacities are taken from the Report for 1935.
287. The daily average number of patients was 83 during the year under review, and the overcrowding was at its worst during the last three months of the year. This is to be accounted for by the fact that during the latter part of the year many villages were bombed from the air and many hundreds of unarmed civilians were machine gunned as they fled from their homes. Such action inevitably leaves a trail of mental disease behind and it must be stressed that sixty-five of the year's admissions gave a history which directly linked the onset of their disease to the Sino-Japanese "Incident".
238. The overcrowding which is a constant feature in the Mental Hospital does not make the treatment of war psychoses easy, and, in fact, treatment of any sort becomes very difficult in a ward holding more than six times the number of patients it was built for. The necessity for a new and properly equipped Mental Hospital becomes more pressing day by day but must take its turn with other even more urgent hospital needs.
289. In the meantime, Government has sanctioned the conversion of part of the staff quarters attached to the former Government Civil Hospital into wards suitable for the quieter type of mental patient. This will be a welcome addition and will relieve, at least temporarily, the worst of the overcrowding in the existing Mental Hospital.
290. It is to be fervently hoped that China will soon enjoy peace again, so that the normal procedure can be followed once more of transferring Chinese nationals sufering from mental disease to the Mental Hospital at Canton.
291. The attached table gives a rough classification of the conditions for which patients were admitted and treated during the year. A glance at the group entitled "General Diseases" indicates some of the difficulties with which the authorities of the Mental Hospital have to deal-particularly as no ac- commodation is available under the present overcrowded conditions for the observation of suspects sent in by the Police, private practitioners, the staff of the Chinese hospitals, and others. Such cases included patients who were eventually found to be suffering from widely differing conditions as cerebral abscess, cerebro-spinal meningitis, lobar pneumonia, pulmonary tuberculosis, sinus thrombosis, smallpox and typhoid fever.
Remaining from 1987
Admitted during 1938
Total
Table XXXI,
56
424
480
Page 450Page 451
Discharged-cured
--relieved
-not improved
Transferred to Canton
Died
Remaining at end of year
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