During the year :-
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1,301 Prisoners, were found unfit for Hard Labour on Admission
36 Prisoners required Hospital treatment on admission.
12 Prisoners were discharged to the Tung Wah Hospital on the expiration of their sentences for the following reasons:-Tuberculosis 9, Chronic Opium Poisoning 1, and Chronic Bronchitis 2.
41 Prisoners were sent to the Government Civil Hospital re- quiring treatment other than was available at the Gaol Hospital.
4 Prisoners were sent to the Lunatic Asylum.
1 Prisoner was sent to the Leper Colony at Canton.
580 Prisoners (Male) required Hospital treatment during the
year.
58 Prisoners (Female) required Hospital treatment during the
year.
2 Female Prisoners gave birth to living children during the
year, in the prison.
(Daily Average of Female Prisoners in Gaol was 50.)
Deaths:
Totalled 28, and were due to the following conditions: —
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influence of the drug in varying degrees, the slow gradual with- drawal method of cure is more effectual and safer than, the rapid and sudden cutting down of the habitual intake, which neces sitates careful supervision and control of the patient else col- lapse and a fatal issue may follow.
Parasitic Skin Disease and Veneral Disease call for rigid supervision and treatment coming as they do as new admissions amongst healthy prisoners in the main employed on Indus- trial Hard Labour,
Tuberculosis provided almost 50% of the total deaths, there being 29 cases with 12 resultant deaths.
The total admissions to the Gaol are low in comparison with 1924, this being due to the decrease in the Chinese popula- tion consequent on the strike, but as the average sentence of individual prisoners was longer, the daily average number in the Ciaol increased in proportion. Dr. D. W. Pope was in medical charge of the Prison for the greater part of the year until relieved by Dr. J. R. Craig in November. An addition to the Prison Staff was made during the year, by the appointment of Mr. 1).E. Wood on April 1, 1925, for duty at the hospital. The Prison Staff treated as Out-Patients totalled 419. There were also 156 staff admissions to the Government Civil Hospital during the year. Attention was also given to the families of the Subordinate Staff of the Prison in their homes as required.
Nephritis
Septicaemia
DEATHS.
1
Tuberculosis
12
Pulmonary
6
Generalised
5
Meningitie
Dysentery
8
2
Fractured Skull and intercranial
Haemorrhage
Acute Fatty Degeneration of Liver. 1
EXECUTIONS.
1
Carried out in the due course of law, numbered 2
HOSPITAL IN-PATIENTS.
Beri Beri Pneumonia
The Opium Habit supplied 54 cases showing Acute symptoms of collapse and requiring hospital treatment, whilst 559 prisoners required to be given the drug in gradually diminishing doses to allay the subacute symptoms resulting from withdrawal of the opium necessitated by the removal of the individual from his usual environment and easy reach of it.
The large number requiring to be treated thus, in addition, as outpatients is further explained by the fact, that in dealing with masses of men who are more or less universally under the
Total 580
Individual Diseases with Numbers are Entered in Attached Table I.
HOSPITAL OUT-PATIENTS.
Total 18,603
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