NOTE. On the first occasion of filling up these Forms, a Plan of each Floor of the Hospital should be sent home. Each such Plan should be the size of the Blue Book sheet. In subsequent years, if there has been no material alteration in the Buildings, or addition to them, it will be sufficient to refer to the Blue Book in which the Plans were sent home.
If the Buildings are afterwards altered or enlarged, fresh Plans should be sent home with the Blue Book of the year in which the alterations were effected.
The Temporary Civil Hospital in Hollywood Road was burned down December 20th, 1878, and the Establishment was removed into the Lock Hospital building at West Point, where it now remains.
The dimensions of the wards are given below.
| Number remaining at the beginning of the year 1879 | Number admitted during the year 1879 | Daily Average in Hospital | Nurses doing duty | Nurses doing no other duty | Attendants | Servants partially or not at all employed as Nurses | Day & Night Nurses, Not Nurses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males, 28 | 1,045 | ||||||
| Females, 1 | 20 | ||||||
| Patients Discharged | Cured and Relieved | Not improved | Number who died in 1879 | Average stay of those Discharged | Remaining at the end of 1879 | Specify the longest time for which any one Inmate has stayed | |
| 95 | 3 | 54 | 13 | 10 | 89 days | ||
| 24 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
| Give the Name or Number of each Ward | Length in feet | Breadth in feet | Height in feet | Number of Beds assigned to the Ward | Amount of cubic space Available for each Patient for the average number of Patients in the Ward | The greatest Number of Patients in the Ward at any one time during the year | Window and Ventilating Openings | Total area in square feet | Area capable of opening in square feet | Connection of the Privy or Sink or Drains with the Ward | If leading out of Ward | Trapped | Untrapped | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female Ward, General | 81 | 24 | 19 | 24 | 1,171 | 5 | 203 | 293 | No | In lavatory between the Wards | ||||
| Medical and Surgical | 81 | 24 | 11 | 18 | 1,202 | 14 | 438 | 458 | ||||||
| 1,150 | 12 | 910 | 810 | |||||||||||
| Burglar | 81 | 25 | 18 | 8 | 1,225 | 11 | 201 | 201 | ||||||
| Venereal Ward, Private Ward | 81 | 17 | 15 | 12 | 172 | 15 | 12 | 17 | ||||||
| 1,108 | 18 | 499 | 408 | |||||||||||
| 81 | 12 | 1 | 8,339 | 1 | 100 | 100 | ||||||||
| 8,839 | 100 | 100 | 8,989 | |||||||||||
| 8,330 | 100 | 100 |
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TEMPORARY CIVIL-HOSPITAL RETURN.
NOTE. On the first occasion of filling up these Forms, a Plan of each Floor of the Hospital should be sent home. Each such Plan should be the size of the Blue Book sheet. In subsequent years, if there has been no material alteration in the Buildings, or addition to them, it will be sufficient to refer to the Blue Book in which the Plans were sent home.
If the Buildings are afterwards altered or enlarged, fresh Plans should be sent home with the Bluo Book of the year in which the alterations were effected.
The Temporary Civil Hospital in Hollywood Road was burned down December 20th, 1878, and the Establishment was removed into the Look Hospital building at West Point, where it now remains.
The dimensions of the wards are given below.
Hospital Return for the Colony of Hongkong, for the Year 1879.
QUESTION I.
Number remaining
in
Hospital admitted
At the
Number
Daily Average in
during the
Hospital |
duty.
your 1879,
boginning year 1870. during the
of the
year 1879.
Males,
28
1,045
Females,...
1
20
Nurses doing no other
Day & Night
Nurses.
Attendants.
Servants partially or not at all employed aa
Not Nurses.
Nurses.
Day & Night
Nurses,
Patients
Discharged.
Cured and Relieved.
Not improved.
Number who died in 1879.
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95
3
w
Average stay
Dend in 1879,
of those
Discharged.
Remaining at the end of 1879.
Specify the longest time for
which say
ono Inmate han stayed.
12
084
54
13
10
95
89 days.
-
24
1
7
2
81 »
Give the Name
or
Number of
each Ward.
Length in feet,
Breadth in feet.
Height in foet,
Number of Beds assigned to
the Ward,
QUESTION II.
Amount of cuble space Availablo for ench
Patient for the average number of Pattenta
in
Tho grentent Number of Patients in the
Ward at
any ono timo during
the Ward.
the year,
Window and Ventilating
Openings,
Connection Is there any of the Privy Sink or Drula
with the
Ward.
opening in
Words?
H
In lavatory between the Wards.
"
"
וי
===
11
門
Nono. Nono.
Total area in
square feet.
Area capable of
opening in square feet.
K Privy in Ward.
If leading out of Ward.
Trapped!
Untrapped!
Famalo Ward, Gonom) Wards for
81 24 1019
7
1,171
5
203
293 No.
81
Modical and
811
2411 181
842 148 12
1,202
14
438
458
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1,150
12
910
810
#
Burglenl
81
251
18
8
1,225
11
201
201
19
Сався,
Do.
Venerenl
Ward, Private Ward,
Do.,
Do..
BK
C
81
173
151
12
172
151
12
17
12
101
12
* 22**
18+
12
1,108
18
499
408
11
1
8,339
1
100
100
"
8,839
100
100
8,989
200
100
8,330
100
100
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