April
May Jane
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Number of Confinements attended by Government Midwives at the different stations in 1922.
1922.
Shaukiwan.
25252520 240 292525
Yaumati.
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Tai Po
Yun Long.
Tṣon Wan.
Chenug Chau.
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Total.
Jammary February March
28
1
•
H
56
27
16
→
2
G
58
5
17
10
2
H
47**
1
13
53
20
3
12
39
July..
21
t
72
August
27
September
23
22
**
October
34
24
1
81
November December
2
3
72
29
3
3
3
65
Total.........
312 213 30
32
17
110 : 714
* Misenrriage 4 months.
THE MEDICAL ISSPRUTION of Schools.
This work was continued. Each child is examined twice a year and the results of the examination are recorded in a card. which contains references to the various matters concerning which it is important to have the necessary information. It is believed that much good has been derived from this examination and the subsequent steps which are taken to improve any conditions which require medical attention. The schools inspecteil were :—
The Queen's College.
The Ellis Kadoorie School.
The Yaumati School.
The Saiyingpun School.
The Wantsai School.
The Prava East School.
The Belilios Public School,
The Peak School.
The Victoria British School.
The School for Indians.
The Kowloon British School. The Gap Road School.
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THE HEALTH OFFICERS OF THE PORT.
There are two Health Officers of the Port who are also inspectors of emigrants. Their work consists in the inspection of ships on their arrival; the medical inspection of emigrants; and various duties required of them by the passengers and crews of ships which are placed in quarantine or kept under observation. 5318 sea-going vessels were visited by these officers in 1922; in in the previous year 3,778 such vessels were visited. The boats plying between this port and Canton and Macao are not included in the number. 286 ships "arrived in quarantine" from ports which had been declared to be infected, and 27,900 passengers together with 22,503 members of crews were examined and the necessary measures taken before pratique was allowed. Of the eleven vessels which it was found necessary to detain for further measures. eight were so detained because of the presence of small-pox on board, two because of babonic plague and one because of cholera. The number of emigrants who passed through the port during the three years 1920-1922 were 105.258; 155,994; and 98,410. 1036 emigrants were rejected for various reasons, this year eg. trachoma" and scabies accounted for many, while a considerable number were not allowed to proceed on account of general unfitness. The report of the Health Officer of the Port is in the appendix.
The Chemical Laboratory.—The staff was the same as in 1921. The work consisted in the examination of articles and of human organs for legal purposes; the examination of dangerous goods and of Food and drugs; the public water supplies; building materials; mineral ores: oils; and other articles constituting a miscellaneons list. The total number of these analyses amounted to 1.176, being 135 less than in 1921. Special reports were made concerning the making of mineral waters; on Chinese wood oil : on the storage of compressed chlorine: on Terne plate containers : on the sediments in fuel oil; on dangerous trades areas: on the preservation of timber; on the dangers connected with calcium carbide. The investigation of the quantity of tin which exists in the deposits of wolfiam found in China, was continued this year, and the result coincided closely with that of the your before. The work of the village wells in the New Territory was also continued, about seventy samples having been thoroughly examined. More work has been done on Chinese camphor: à new method has been devised for the detection of traces of petroleum such as may be found in the charred remains of material found in houses after a fire has occurred in them; an investigation of the composition of shales found in the Sun Ning district has been commenced.
The Matilda Hospital.
The number of patients remaining at the end of
1921 was
The number admitted during 1922 was
The number of deaths was
IS 253
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