No_6_1954 — Page 17

THE NEW

TSAN YUK

HOSPITAL

HOSPITAL ROAD

WEST POINT

Architect: Mr. Eric Cumine

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PROPOSES NEW

the

Photograph of the front of the model of the hospital.

Island's principal maternity partment of Obstetrics and Gynae- cology of the University of Hongkong.

On January 1, 1934, the Hospital. which had hitherto been administer- ed as part of the Chinese Public Dispensary system, became

a Gov- ernment Hospital and the number of beds for maternity cases was increas- ed to 60.

Hong Kong will soon have a new as the maternity hospital, which will re- hospital for the poor. place the over-worked Tsan Yuk Hospital. The new building is being The present Tsan Yuk is an old- erected on a site next to the Sai Ying style red brick building of three Pun Hospital in Hospital Road at storeys It contained four "well- West Point, and is directly opposite appointed and roomy wards, each large playground on which the capable of housing five patients", as old Government City Hospital once well as private ward accommodation for a few patients, making the hos- pital capable of admitting a total of The present Tsan Yuk Hospital is 30 patients. The staff consisted of a situated at the junction of Western doctor in charge, а matron, two Street and Third Street on the nurses. six student midwives and thickly populated slope between five amahs. During the first full are eight doctors associated with the Bonham Road and Queen's Road year of running there were 436 ad- Tsan Yuk Hospital, five of them be- West, and lies approximately 500 yards away from the new site.

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missions, a figure which steadily grew to reach the 1.000 mark within the first five years of the hospital's existence.

The Hospital was originally opened In October 1922, with the main ob- jects of providing a much needed

In 1926. realising the value of the maternity service in the Colony and Tsan Yuk Hospital as a training of establishing a training school for field for medical students as well as Chinese girls who wished to become for midwives, Professor R. E. Totten- midwives. Since its completion, this ham established a very firm link establishment has been doing duty between the Hospital and the De-

A back view of the model of the hospital.

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The present status of the Hospital is vastly different from that which obtained 30 years ago. To-day there

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ing full-time members of the staff of the University Obstetrical Unit and three of them being members of the Government Medical Department. The staff includes, in addition, matron, 14 nurses, 32 pupil midwives and 28 amahs. The Hospital has, for many years, been handling about ten per cent of all the births in the Colony; with the phenomenal in- crease in the total number of births during recent years, however, the Hospital has been forced to under- take about three times the amount of work for which it is properly equipped.

In 1951, for example, there were 6,199 admissions to the hospital and 5,819 babies were born-figures which considerably exceed the total volume of work carried out by the famous Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, with its vastly greater facilities.

In an endeavour to meet the con- stantly increasing needs of the poor- er classes of the community, the capacity of the Hospital has been expanded to the absolute limit of possibility. To-day, no fewer than 75 beds have been crowded into the space originally occupied by 30. and, with an additional ten beds in an annexe next door, the total bed cap- acity has been stretched to 85. A census taken on October 17.

1952 (the 30th anniversary of the founda-

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