21.
1932.. 1933.
-
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Eye Clinic.
13,022 .12,540
Baby Clinic.
22.
1932..
1933......
23.
1932 1933
.1,103
.1,270
Deaths
Brought in dead
1,869 2,249
1,013
1,042
24. A large proportion of the deaths in the Hospital occur within 24 hours of admission. The sick poor go there to die. 511 were brought in moribund as compared with 649 in 1932. Those brought in dead include bodies sent from ships in harbour, from neighbouring hospitals, from the Public Dispensaries, and from private houses. These are taken to the Tung Wah for the benefit of the free coffins and free burials, and also to avoid post-mortem examinations.
25. The new building in course of erection will be ready for occupation early in 1934: and will be an immense improvement on anything that has gone before, including better light and air.
26. The Government Nurses Examination was started early in 1933, when the first batch of candidates from all the Hong Kong Hospitals was examined. At the second examination, held in December, 14 nurses from this hospital entered for the Preliminary examination. Twelve passed in all subjects, one passed in half, and one failed. This is the first batch of nurses sent from this hospital: and the Tung Wah is the first Chinese Hosiptal, under the Tung Wah management, to send in any candidates for the Government examination.
THE KWONG WAH HOSPITAL.
27. This hospital does for Kowloon and the Peninsula what the Tung Wah and the Tung Wah Eastern do for the island of Hong Kong. There is official accommodation for about 326 beds of which 229 are for general diseases, 40 are for tuberculosis cases and 57 are for maternity cases. There are 18 private wards, including 7 for maternity cases.
28. The accommodation cannot keep pace with the growth in population. Kowloon has considerably more than doubled itself during the last ten years. No patient is turned away for want of room; and in both medical and surgical wards it is common to find two in a bed, and occasionally some sleeping on the floor.
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29. The staff consists of a Chinese Senior Resident Medical Officer whose salary is paid by the Government, and three Junior Medical Officers paid by the Directors.
30. There are also Chinese Herbalists, who practise Chinese Medicine and are paid out of Hospital funds.
31. The patients, on admittance, can choose whether they desire treatment on Western or Chinese lines.
255.
32.
Inpatients. Western treatment
Chinese treatment
Total
1932
1933
9,517
10,088
2,339
3,195
11,856
13,283
33. There were 261 operations, the number for 1932 being
34. There were 4,006 labours as compared with 3,327 in
Still-births numbered 161.
1932.
35.
Outpatients.
Western
treatment
1932.
Chinese treatment
..40,537 (including 97,398
gynaecology)
Total
137,935
1933.
........40,373
114,627
154,900
36. There were 1,824 eye cases as compared with 2,520 for the previous year.
37. The number of deaths in hospital was 3,382. As in the Tung Wah, the number of deaths is influenced by many factors, which have nothing to do with the treatment in the hospital.
38. There is a small laboratory where facilities are available for ordinary routine microscopic examination.
39. A children's clinic is held twice a week. attendance is 18.
The average
40. There is also an antenatal clinic held once a week in the Maternity Block. The total number of cases treated at this antenatal clinic was 232.
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