297. Table 31 sets out the work of the Hospital during the past five years.
TABLE 31
QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL 1958-62
1958
1959
1960
1967
JOSE
Maternity Cases
1,975
1,962
2,144
2,374
2.429
General Inpacients (excluding
Maternity)
12,994
13.224 15.133
15,923
18,682
Total Outpatient attendances
44.545
$3,306 47,437
58,559
67,291
Cammulties attended (included in
above figures)
(8,101
21.307
23.402
41,936
46,599
Operations (excluding minor
onics) Mortality expressed 请您 per-
centage of admissions)
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7.230
7,212
8,160
8,420
9.681
7.3
7.5
7.0
7.3
6.6
Tsan Yuk Hospital
298. This is the main specialist obstetrics hospital in Hong Kong and the teaching and training centre for medical students and student midwives in obstetrics. The clinical supervision of the 200 beds is under- taken by the University Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, assisted by both University and Government medical staff.
299. Admissions are restricted generally to patients requiring special- ized care and comprise primiparae, grand multigravidae and abnormal cases. Some 4% of admissions (305 patients), however, are emergency cases with complications which are referred from other sources, partic- ularly private midwives and Government maternity homes. There were no maternal deaths in the Hospital throughout 1962.
300. Outpatient sessions are held daily at the hospital: ante-natal attendances during the year totalled 34,786.
301. A small research laboratory in the Hospital conducted investiga- tions into haemolytic disease of the newborn among Chinese babies and into the ante-natal blood chemistry of pregnant women.
302. Table 32 below sets out the work done at the hospital for 1961 and 1962:
TABLE 12
WORK OF THE ISAN YUK HOSPITAL 1961-62
JAST
Total admissions
7,774
1962 7,340
Toul deliveries
6.664 5,993
Still-birth rate (per 1,000 total births)
12.34 10.08
Neo-natal mortality rate (per 1,000 live births) Maternal monality rate (per 1,000 total births) Percentage operative deliveries
13.71
11.70
0.77
Nil
21.13
20.63
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Castle Peak Hospital
303. This hospital for psychiatric patients, originally of 1,000 beds, has been in full operation for little more than 18 months, but pressure on accommodation has already increased to an extent which has called for the provision of additional beds in a number of wards.
304. Psychiatric cases from the whole Colony are admitted to this hospital and the great majority of these are now presenting as voluntary patients.
305. The Hong Kong Psychiatric Centre situated on Hong Kong Island is the main outpatient department and is combined with a Day Hospital which also provides observation, treatment and supervision for patients 'on parole' from Castle Peak Hospital. Commencing in October 1962, two new psychiatric outpatient sessions were held weekly at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Specialist Clinic,
306. Training in Psychiatric Nursing was successfully continued and is referred to in paragraph 456. Fifth year medical students also spend a week in residence at the hospital to receive practical teaching in psychiatry.
307. In therapy, a number of new psychopharmaceuticals were tried but the oldest of the phenothiazine group-largactil-continued to be the basic standby for controlling schizophrenics, a new drug, trifluor- promazine, having proved too toxic. In mania and other states of agita- tion with excitement a new compound, haloperidol, was introduced and found to be very useful. In depressive states the use of the mono-amine oxidase inhibitors continued to be effective and also reduced the need for electro-convulsive therapy.
308. Occupational Therapy plays a very considerable part in the management of psychiatric patients and a comprehensive range of ac- tivities was organized very successfully throughout the year. Additional premises became available adjacent to the hospital for workshops in one of two large huts which had been previously occupied by a Cadas- tral Survey Unit of the Public Works Department.
309. Psychiatric social work was undertaken by almoners attached to the main hospital and the outpatient day hospital. Discharged patients and their relatives formed an organization called the New Life Mutual Aid Club, which was registered officially as a Society during the year; the Club aims to promote the mental and physical health of its members. to help with social problems, and to induce a better understanding by
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