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VICTORIA GAOL HOSPITAL.
Dr. J. R. Craig was Medical Officer to the prison throughout the year. The total admissions to Victoria Gaol during the year amounted to 6,511 of which 360 were females, 6,097 males and 54 juvenile offenders.
MALE SECTION.
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HOSPITAL OUT-PATIENTS. (Both Sections).
Totalled 6159.
The main conditions treated were:
Chronic Opium poisoning
Venereal infection, i.e.
Acute Gonorrhoea
Bubo
1,480
Total admissions to male prison
The daily average number of male prisoners in gaol was
6,097 1,009
179
15
The total number of prisoners found unfit for hard labour
on admission to the prison was
1,523
Syphilis
41
made up as follows:-
235
Prisoners requiring Medical Isolation
340
Prisoners requiring hospital treatment on admis-
Scabies
138
sion
101
Prisoners only fit for
labour
384
Ringworm
55
Prisoners only fit for
labour
698
Skin Diseases (Other than above)
27
TOTAL
1,523
Septic Wounds
66
Hernie
46
N.B. Of this latter figure 520 were over 59 years of age.
Malaria
115
Beri-Beri
10
Prisoners requiring hospital treatment during year
585
The daily average sick in male hospital
19.3
Diseases of the Respiratory System
35
Prisoners requiring to be sent to the G. C. H. for
treatment other than available in the prison
22
Prisoners sent to the Lunatic Asylum
Prisoners sent to the Leper Colony at Canton
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Circulatory System
20
11
Digestive System
56
Eye
11
FEMALE SECTION,
Ear
6
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The total admissions to female prison
The Daily average number of female prisoners in gaol Prisoners found unfit for hard labour on admission to
360
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prison
42
Prisoners requiring hospital treatment
17
Daily average in hospital
0.04
Prisoners requiring out-patient treatment
30
Prisoners admitted during pregnancy
11
Prisoners giving births to living children in prison
2
Prisoners requiring to be sent to G. C. H. for treatment
other than available at prison
DEATHS.
Total
10.
Death was due to the following causes:—
Tuberculosis,
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Miliary Tuberculosis
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HOSPITAL IN-PATIENTS. (Both Sections.)
Totalled 602.
Individual discases with numbers are entered in attached
Table I.
General Tuberculosis
Intra Cranial Hæmorrhage Chronic Nephritis
Aortic Disease
7
10
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