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Annexe B.
CHINESE HOSPITALS.
In the Tung Wah Hospital private wards and second class wards, and wards for thirty-nine Tuberculosis cases, have been opened, as well as new Nurses Quarters with Lecture Room and Dining Hall.
At the Kwong Wah Hospital a new modern building with thirty-two beds was opened on the 30th, December by His Excellency the Governor. A new Operating Theatre, complete with every modern appliance, will soon be ready to supplement the present one.
Two new wards, each with room for sixteen patients, which were formally opened in December, 1930, have come into use at the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital: one for Medical cases under Western treatment and the other for Maternity patients.
These three large hospitals all supported by Chinese residents in the Colony, are managed by a single Committee which receives an annual Government grant, and the Senior Chinese Medical Officers are paid by the Government.
Tung Wah Hospital,
There has been a steady and ever-increasing number of patients in this Hospital and the year 1931 beat all former records in outpatients.
1931
1930
1931
1930
1931
1930
Western treatment,
Inpatients (General).
Chinese treatment.
5,704
5,296
5,246
5,548
Total.
10,950
10,844
Inpatients (Maternity)
Still-births.
1,679
1,928
308
354
Deaths.
Brought in dead.
2,314
2,165
1,618
1,501
There were 900 operations including many major ones.
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Outpatients (General),
Western treatment.
Chinese treatment.
Total.
1931
57,063
184,997
242,060
25,463
202,482
227,945
Eye Clinic.
14,277
Baby Clinic.
1,48€
12;262
2,523
1930
1931
1930
A great many patients come to the Tung Wah Hospital from outside the Colony attracted by its fame and its unstinted charity.
A large proportion of the deaths in the Hospital occur within twenty-four hours of admission. It is a dumping ground for dying people who wish to avoid postmortems. 388 brought in moribund.
were
The number of vaccinations shows no increase but this is accounted for by the establishment of now Vaccination Stations outside.
Inspite of some falling off in Inpatients, the Outpatients in 1981 numbered 29,878 more than in 1930.
The new rooms added in 1931 to the Hospital made no appreciable difference till towards the end of the year.
The number of patients who choose their own herbalists to treat their complaints is still large, but most of these were not For anything of importance they are suffering seriously. learning by experience to put themselves in the hands of a scientifically trained doctor.
The X-ray Department continues to justify itself and the gross income rose from $1,331.00 in 1930 to $1,688.00 in 1931.
Kwong Wah Hospital.
General beds 234. Maternity beds fifty-nine. Thirty-two in the new Tuberculosis ward.
This Hospital does for Kowloon and the Peninsula what the Tung Wah Hospital does for the island of Hong Kong.
The accommodation cannot keep pace with the growth in population. Kowloon has considerably more than doubled itself during the last ten years, and overcrowding in the Hospital is unfortunately only too common.
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