(ii) Out-patients.
M 44 ― New cases. Return visits. Total attendances. Ante-natal Infant welfare Total
966 (575) 1,019 (489) 1,985 (1,064) 746 (1,346) 372 (1,783) 1,118 (3,129)
1,712 (1,921), 1,391 (2,272) 3,103 (4,193)
(D) Infections Diseases Hospital.
181. Mention has already been made of the progress made in 1939 on the preparation of the site for the much-needed new infectious diseases hospital on the Kowloon Medical Centre.
182. As in 1937 the accommodation in the existing Infectious Diseases Hospital at Kennedy Town proved too small and use had to be made of the upper portion of the Lai Chi Kok Relief Hospital where, in addition to 268 sick soldiers from the Ma Tau Chung Internment Camp, 234 cases of cholera were hospitalized.
183. Some 402 cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis, 392 of cholera, eighty-one of smallpox, forty-six of chickenpox and three each of measles and mumps received treatment in the Infectious Diseases Hospital proper. Thirty-one of the cases in question were carried over from the previous year.
184. Details of actual admissions of and deaths from the three more important diseases are as follows:
Table XXVII.
MonthCerebro-spinal meningitisCholeraSmallpox January303 February14 March711918 April91 May6210 June4148 July251501 August112*1 September21110 October1538 NovemberCo36 December1142 Total38539270 Deaths17726431 Mortality per 100 cases67.344 38.2*Upper wards of Lai Chi Kok Hospital opened and all cases admitted there instead of to the Infectious Diseases Hospital,
(ii) Out-patients.
M 44
―
New
cases.
Return visits.
Total attendances.
Ante-natal Infant welfare
Total
966
(575) 1,019 (489) 1,985 (1,064) 746 (1,346) 372 (1,783) 1,118 (3,129)
1,712 (1,921), 1,391 (2,272) 3,103 (4,193)
(D) Infections Diseases Hospital.
181. Mention has already been made of the progress made in 1939 on the preparation of the site for the much-needed new infectious diseases hospital on the Kowloon Medical Centre.
182. As in 1937 the accommodation in the existing Infectious Diseases Hospital at Kennedy Town proved too small and use had to be made of the upper portion of the Lai Chi Kok Relief Hospital where, in addition to 268 sick soldiers from the Ma Tau Chung Internment Camp, 234 cases of cholera were hospitalized.
183. Some 402 cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis, 392 of cholera, eighty- one of smallpox, forty-six of chickenpox and three each of measles and mumps received treatment in the Infectious Diseases Hospital proper. Thirty-one of the cases in question were carried over from the previous year.
184. Details of actual admissions of and deaths from the three more important diseases are as follows:
Table XXVII.
Cerebro-spinal
Cholera.
Smallpox.
January
February
Month.
meningitis.
30
3
14
71
19
March
91
18
E
April
62
10
May
41
48
LO
5
June
25
150
1
July
11
2*
1
August
21
110
September
15
38
October
Co
36
November
11
4
December
1
2
Total
Deaths
Mortality per 100 cases
385
392
70
177
264
31
44
67.3
38.2
*Upper wards of Lai Chi Kok Hospital opened and all cases admitted there instead of to the Infectious Diseases
Hospital,
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