211. Other infectious diseases admitted were tetanus, mainly retanus neonatorum, tuberculous meningitis, amoebic and bacillary dysenteries, poliomyelitis and encephalitis.
212. A small quarantine unit of four beds was added to the hospital during the year.
Sai Ying Pun Hospital
213. This hospital on Hong Kong Island is used entirely for the treatment of cases of infectious diseases, of which the main types seen are as detailed previously for Lai Chi Kok Hospital.
214. An increasing number of shigella and staphylococcal organisms are being encountered which show strong resistance to the common wide-spectrum antibiotics and in certain cases furadantin and kanamycin were the only therapeutic substances of effect. Admissions of patients suffering from acute rheumatic fever are also increasing, almost all being children, but is of interest that four adult cases were seen during the year, all female.
215. The work of the two infectious disease hospitals is summarized in Table 26.
TABLE 26
INFECTIOUS DISEASE HOSPITALS 1960
Caser
Deaths
Admitted
Case Fatality Rate (per cent)
Diphtheria
1,510
50
Typhoid
343
Tetanus
AJ
168
Amoebic Dysentery
131
Racillary Dysentery
234
Poliomyelitis
124
Tuberculous Meningitis Measles
39
249
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5.96
1.46
80
47.62
3
2.29
1.28
17
13.71
16
41.03
49
19.68
Wan Chai Hospital
217. This small 30-bed hospital, originally intended for the in-patient treatment of venereal disease amongst women and children, is now primarily an institution for the care of female patients with skin diseases and a busy dermatological out-patient department is maintained there.
218. Out-patient facilities are also provided for the treatment of women suffering from venereal disease and for the examination of known female contacts.
South Lantau Hospital
219. This small hospital of 17 beds serves the workers on the Shek Pik Reservoir project and the villagers on the south-west coast of Lantau Island. The Medical Officer-in-charge is also responsible for the dispensary at Mui Wo, serves as Health Officer for the area and visits the sick bay at Her Majesty's Prison at Chi Ma Wan.
Mental Health Service
220.
March 1961, saw the completion of the Castle Peak Hospital providing modern facilities for the accommodation and treatment of 1,000 psychiatric patients. With this institution as a nucleus, it has been possible to expand the basis of the memal health service by the conver- sion of the old Victoria Mental Hospital into a day hospital and centre for out-patients and by the commencement of out-patient sessions at certain other clinics. The work performed during the year is outlined in Table 27.
TABLE 27
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE 1959-60
Sr. John Hospital
216. This hospital of 100 beds, situated on the island of Cheung Chau, is staffed and maintained by Govemment, the buildings being leased from the St. John Ambulance Association. It not only offers in-patient and out-patient facilities, but serves as a base for the floating clinic covering the Colony's south-wester waters and as a convenient centre for various specialist clinics. There are 42 beds set aside for patients convalescing from pulmonary tuberculosis. Patients requiring major surgical procedures or other specialist in-patient care arc trans- ferred to the appropriate hospitals on Hong Kong Island,
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Patients admitted to hospital
New out-patient attendances
Repeat out-patient attendances
Artendances of discharged in-patients
1959
1960
1.497
1.687
752
845
5,205
7,685
307
221. A further step in the advancement of the Mental Health Service was the enactment of the Mental Health Ordinance, 1960, which embodies a number of liberal concepts and simplified procedures pertaining to the treatment and care of the mentally ill that are in keeping with the progress made in psychiatry during recent years. The Ordinance will be brought into effect later in 1961.
222. A block containing 120 beds has been set aside in the Castle Peak Hospital for the treatment of drug addicts who voluntarily request
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