aversion treatment by giving, at the same time as the drug, continuous faradic electric shock, further work on the Nalline Test and, finally, radiological studies on lung changes occurring in drug smokers.
317. Table 35 below shows the numbers of male patients treated at the Centre during 1962.
TABLE 33
Patients registered for treatment
Patients admitted
Patients remaining from 1961
Patients discharged
360 | 22
...
50 120
(All patients remained in the Centre for 6 months)
Lai Chi Kok Hospital
318. This hospital has 481 beds which serve three categories of patients; 150 beds are allocated for infectious discases, 72 for pulmonary tuberculosis, and the remaining 259 heds for convalescent patients from Kowloon and Queen Mary Hospitals.
319. Physiotherapy and occupational therapy units are maintained at the hospital, the former dealing mainly with the orthopaedic convales- cent patients and children with poliomyelitis, while the latter deals with the long stay convalescent and tuberculosis cases.
320. Total admissions during 1962 numbered 7,953; of these 2,445 were cases of infectious disease, including tuberculosis. Of the remain- der, 5,307 were from Kowloon Hospital and 201 from Queen Mary Hospital.
321. Five cases of cholera were confirmed out of 43 suspected cases admitted during the outbreak which occurred between August and October.
322. There were 874 patients admitted with diphtheria, most of whom were extremely ill when first seen as shown by the fact that 222 of them required immediate tracheotomy. The mortality from the disease, however, showed some decrease compared to the previous year. 323. Tetanus neonatorum, unfortunately, continued to be distress- ingly common and there were 55 deaths from this disease. Almost all had been delivered at home in the New Territories without adequate postnatal care.
324. Details of the infectious cases requiring admission to the Lai Chi Kok Hospital and the Sai Ying Pun Hospital are shown in Table 36.
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Sai Ying Pun Infectious Diseases Hospital
325. The limited accommodation in this old hospital, which is part of the former Government Civil Hospital in the western district of Hong Kong Island, continued to be severely taxed during the year. With a nominal strength of 88 beds, there were seldom less than 100 patients accommodated, the resultant overcrowding making strict isolation and prevention of cross-infection a difficuli problem.
326. The pattern of infectious disease in the patients admitted mainly followed that of the previous year and there was a further decrease in the number of cases of tuberculous meningitis seen. The case fatality rate for measles and diphtheria also showed a significant decrease although the children suffering from these diseases are nearly always admitted at a late stage and with severe complications. Bacillary dysentery was more evident during the year and admissions due to poliomyelitis were more than twice those of 1961; the latter disease has, however, shown a phenomenal drop in incidence since the oral vaccination campaign conducted early 1963.
327. Five cases of cholera were admitted to the special cholera annexe of the hospital during the outbreak in August and September and all responded well to treatment; 38 contacts of cholora cases were also admitted for observation during typhoon Wanda when it was impossible to reach the Quarantine Centre across the harbour.
328.
Table 36 details the cases of infectious disease admitted to both Sai Ying Pun Hospital and Lai Chi Kok Hospital.
TABLE 36
ADMISSIONS TO INFECTIOUS DISEASE HOSPITALS
Cases Admired
1963
Deaths
Case Futality Rate (per cent)
Diphtheria Typhoid
1,245
95
7.63
416
$
1.20
Tetanus
179
70
39.00
Amoebic dysentery
105
3
1.86
Bacillary dysentery
591
1.02
Poliomyelitis
318
42
13,21
Tuberculosis meningitis
20
13
56.52
Measles
245
9.39
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