M 129
Myocarditis
Acute cardiac asthma
N 00
2
Heart failure due to coronary thrombosis
1
Lobar pneumonia
2
Hypostatic pneumonia
1
Broncho-pneumonia
1
Perforation of gastric ulcer
1
Cirrhosis of liver
Liver abscess
General debility
Senility
Total
4
1
1
1
63
10. The following transfers took place during the year :-
To Queen Mary Hospital
To Mental Hospital
To Infectious Diseases Hospital
12 7 2Table III.
Twenty cases were sent to Queen Mary Hospital for X-ray returning the same day and one case for artificial pneumo-thorax treatment was sent on three occasions.
11. Seven prisoners were released on medical grounds suffering from leprosy. On completion of the isolation quarters (at present under construction) leper prisoners will be isolated, and treated as prisoners until termination of their sentence, before being sent to a suitable institution, if required.
12. Only one case of cholera was reported to the Health Department: there were 610 cases of other infectious diseases also reported, mostly tuberculosis and dysentery.
13. 596 inoculations against cholera were carried out on officers and families and 10,478 on prisoners from May to December, 1939.
14. 12,553 prisoners and remands were vaccinated during the year.
15. 160 operations were performed during the year comprising :- hernia, hydrocele, circumcision, haemorrhoids and removal of cysts, etc.
16. 198 teeth were extracted.
17. 559 officers (inclusive of office staff) reported sick and were seen by the medical officer.
18. 883 officers' wives, children and Chinese government servants were seen by the medical officer in his consulting rooms. An Indian lady medical officer attends every Tuesday afternoon to see gynaecological and other cases.
19. Fairly intensive treatment of venereal diseases has been carried out during the year.
Prisoners whose sentence did not permit a full course, i.e., under two months were treated (in the event of gonorrhoea) with irrigations and injections of gonacrine and in some cases streptocide was given, and in the case of syphilis and chancroid were given local treatment and advised to attend a government clinic on discharge from prison.
M 129
Myocarditis
Acute cardiac asthma
N 00
2
Heart failure due to coronary thrombosis
1
Lobar pneumonia
2
Hypostatic pneumonia
1
Broncho-pneumonia
1
Perforation of gastric ulcer
1
Cirrhosis of liver
Liver abscess
General debility
Senility
Total
4
1
1
1
63
10. The following transfers took place during the year :-
To Queen Mary Hospital
To Mental Hospital
Table III.
To Infectious Diseases Hospital
12
7
2
Twenty cases were sent to Queen Mary Hospital for X-ray returning the same day and one case for artificial pneumo-thorax treatment was sent on three occasions.
11. Seven prisoners were released on medical grounds suffering from leprosy. On completion of the isolation quarters (at present under construction) leper pri- soners will be isolated, and treated as prisoners until termination of their sentence, before being sent to a suitable institution, if required.
12. Only one case of cholera was reported to the Health Department: there were 610 cases of other infectious diseases also reported, mostly tuberculosis and dysentery.
13. 596 inoculations against cholera were carried out on officers and families and 10,478 on prisoners from May to December, 1939.
14. 12,553 prisoners and remands were vaccinated during the year.
15. 160 operations were performed during the year comprising :-hernia, hydrocele, circumcision, haemorrhoids and removal of cysts, etc.
16.
198 teeth were extracted.
17. 559 officers (inclusive of office staff) reported sick and were seen by the medical officer.
18. 883 officers' wives, children and Chinese government servants were seen by the medical officer in his consulting rooms. An Indian lady medical officer attends every Tuesday afternoon to see gynaecological and other cases.
19. Fairly intensive treatment of venereal diseases has been carried out during the year.
Prisoners whose sentence did not permit a full course, i.e., under two months were treated (in the event of gonorrhoea) with irrigations and injections of gonacrine and in some cases streptocide was given, and in the case of syphilis and chancroid were given local treatment and advised to attend a government clinic on discharge from prison.
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