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4. The Hospital for women and children will really be an annexe to the Government Civil Hospital and will also contain convalescent wards for male patients. It is not intended to appoint a medical officer solely in charge as there will only be some forty beds. It includes, in addition, a ward for Asiatic women, a general ward, and some private wards for European women.
5. We have a very capable matron in charge of the female venereal wards, one who has been in the service of this Department for over fifteen years and who is personally known to the Japanese and Chinese who still voluntarily present themselves for treatment when sick. Her practical knowledge and experience of this special class of diseases are unique.
6. I question the advisability of appointing a Lady Doctor in charge of two such institutions as the female venereal wards and the proposed Hospital for women and children, especially when it is considered that during the hot summer months we shall have confinement cases in the Hospital at the Peak.
With reference to the proposed lying-in wards at the Tung Wah Hospital, I consider it preferable to appoint a trained midwife to be under the orders of the Resident and Visiting Surgeons. The position of a Lady Doctor in a Hospital like this would be an invidious one, and for some years to come, I do not anticipate that many women will be confined in this institution.
10-12-99.
(Signed.) J. M. Atkinson.
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4. The Hospital for women and children will re-
ally be an annexe to the Government Civil Hospital and will
also contains convalescent wards for male patients, it is
not intended to appoint a medical officer solely in charge
as there will only be some forty beds, it includes in addi-
to
tion a
ion,a ward for asiatic women, a general ward and some pri-
vate wards for European women.
5. We have a very capable natron in charge of
the female venereal, wards, one who has been in the service
of this Department for over fifteen years and who is personal-
ly known to the Japanese and Chinese who still voluntarily
present themselves for treatment when sick. Her practical
knowledge and experience of this special class of diseases
are unique.
6. I question the advisability of appointing a
Lady Doctor in charge of two such institutions as the female
venereal wards and the proposed Hospital for women and
children especially when it is considered that during the
hot summer months we shall have confinement cases in the
Hospital at the Peak.
With reference to the proposed lying-in wards at
the Tung Wah Hospital I consider it preferable to appoint a
trained midwife to be under the orders of the Resident and
Visiting Surgeons the position of a Lady Doctor in an Hospi-
tal like this would be an invidious one and for some years
to come I do not anticipate that many women will be confined
in this institution..
10-12-99.
(Signed.) J. M. Atkinson.
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