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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 250.
The following Report on the Tung Wah Hospital for the first quarter of 1900 is published.
By Command,
F. H. MAY. Acting Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 15th May, 1900,
TUNG WAU Hospital,
HONGKONG, 30th April, 1900.
Sin,--I have the honour to submit, for the information of the Government, the usual quarterly report regarding the working of the Tung Wah Hospital during the past three months.
The following table shows the statistics of the quarter :-
Male.
Female.
Total.
Remaining on 1st January, Admitted during three months, .........507
.127
27
154
9-4
601
Total,
755
Discharged, Died,
.275
40
315
.227
39
286
Total,
...601
Under treatment on 1st April,
............132
22
154
154
During the corresponding period of 1899, 577 were admitted to the Hospital.
I append a table showing in detail the Admissions and Mortality during the quarter, with the proportion of cases treated by Western and Chinese methods, respectively.
Of the 601 admissions, 434 were under native method of treatment, 151 were treated according
to Western science, 4 were transferred to the Lunatic Asylum, 6 to the Government Civil Hospital, 4
to the Kennedy Town Hospital, and 2 to the Italian Convent.
Of the 286 deaths, 70 were admittel moribund into the Receiving Ward, 4 of which were Plagne. Eighty-nine (89) male and 14 female corpses were received into the Hospital Mortuary to await burial. Of these, 7 males and 1 female were sent to the Public Mortuary for post-mortem examination as suspected plague or poisoning.
Twelve (12) post-mortem examinations were made in the Public Mortuary on bodies died in the Hospital.
During the quarter free burials were provided for 512 persons.
Eighteen thousand one hundred and seven (18,107) males and 8,359 females--total 26,416-were een in the Out-patient Department.
One hundred and eighty-nine (189) destitutes were temporarily housed and fed :---
Sent from Registrar General's Office,
Saigon,
11
Po Leung Kuk,
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59
*
Hoihow,
Police Department,
Hongs, &c.,
Shipwrecked,
51
39
1
39
31
Total,.
189
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