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THE TUNG WAH EASTERN HOSPITAL.
41. This Hospital continues to do very good work. It has served the useful purpose of testifying to the older foundation- the Tung Wah--what it is possible for a Chinese Hospital to be. Everything is new and clean and it had the advantage of starting fresh in up-to-date buildings.
42. The staff consists of a Chinese Senior Medical Officer whose salary is paid by Government, and two Junior Doctors appointed by the Directors.
43. For the greater part of the year the official number of beds was 254. Actually these numbers were augmented by canvas camp beds where the pressure of cases was heavy. With the camp beds the total number which can be accommodated is at least 300.
44. The hospital is now completed and is a model of what a charity hospital should be, viz., all space occupied without wasting and without overcrowding. Each bed in the general ward has 60 square feet of space only, but such is the plan of ward and the arrangement of the beds that they all have ample lighting and ventilation.
45.
Inpatients.
Western
treatment
1932 .8,278 (including 588
maternity)
Chinese treatment
1,872
Total
5,150
1933.........3,327 (including 767
2,680
6,007
maternity)
46.
1932
1933
47.
Major Operations under
General Anaesthesia
159
151
Outpatients
Western
treatment
Chinese treatment
Total
1932
16,012
46,283
62,295
1933
22,211
52,005
74,216
Vaccinations
414
443
1932
1933
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48. The number of children admitted continues to increase.
They have a large airy ward to themselves.
one
49. Two wards have been set aside (one male and female) for patients who are able to make some payment but cannot afford a private room. The charge in these wards is $1.40 per day including food and medicine. Each patient can, if he desires, bring in an attendant to help in looking after him.
50. The improvement in the health of the general staff con- tinues and there are no cases now of Malaria. The nurses have mosquito-nets supplied to them and take prophylactic doses of Quinine.
51. Deaths in 1933 numbered 1,166. these died within 24 hours of admission.
A large proportion of
52. A ward for the treatment of Opium Addicts has been set aside since June. These patients are mostly business men who find they cannot afford the luxury of opium in these days of depression. They appear to be earnest in their desire for freedom from their handicap. The course of treatment is usually complete within three weeks. So far 177 cases have been dealt with. The Government has been defraying the cost.
The Tung Wah Smallpox Hospital.
53. The Tung Wah Smallpox Hospital, erected in 1902 for the herbal treatment of smallpox cases, consists of six wards. arranged in three two-storied blocks and faced by another group of three two-storied blocks intended for staff quarters and for administration purposes.
At a distance and separated by a yard are the kitchens, the servants quarters and the mortuary. The whole is contained in a large compound.
All the blocks are connected by covered ways.
54. This hospital at the time of its construction was con- sidered to have all the requirements necessary for the proper treatment of smallpox cases by Chinese methods.
55. There was room for 60 cases without overcrowding but there was no arrangement for heating the wards and no water carriage system.
56. 137 cases of smallpox were admitted during the year and one case remained in hospital at the end of 1933. There were 78 deaths, giving a case death rate of 57 per cent.
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