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the Tung Wah Hospital. It was found, however, in practice that

the choice made at the Tung Wah Hospital by patients or their

friends to be sent to the Government Plague Hospital or the

Tung Wah Branch Hospital respectively included their choice

of methods of treatment, and all who came to the latter expect-

ed to be treated by the Chinese doctors. The work of these stu-

dents, therefore, came to be the keeping of necessary records;

the preparation of the daily returns made to His Excellency

the Officer Administering the Government, the Principal Civil

Medical Officer, and the Secretary of the Sanitary Board; and

the carrying out out of my instructions regarding the sanitary

maintenance of the hospital; while they were occasionally call-

ed in by the native doctors to incise buboes and otherwise to

some extent modify the native treatment.

A Police guard was maintained night and day at

the gate of the hospital by the Captain Supt. of Police, to se-

cure the carrying out of regulations for the prevention of the

spread of infection from the Hospital.

The encoffining and burial of the dead were

under the supervision of two English soldiers, who were for

the time being on the staff of the Sanitary Board. They also

overlooked the disposal of excreta, &c., from the wards. This

was disinfected when passed,mixed with sawdust, and burned.

The visits of friends of patients were care-

fully regulated and limited, and all such visitors were re-

quired to disinfect themselves after leaving the wards.

The total number of admissions was 224, of whom

222

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