74
virtue of their low salaries and close contact with children, merit special attention. The results are as follows:
Total X-rays of school teachers referred to Harcourt Clinic. 46
Healed Quiescent
Active
Suspicious
T
18
(c) Discharges.
75
1. Completed treatment
(1) Improved
119
(ii) In same condition
(iii) Worse
69
Not Tuberculous
7
Diagnosis not complete...
2 (Left Service)
Failed to attend
The prisoners at Stanley Prison were surveyed originally in the hope of preventing spread of infection in this institution which has been and still is overcrowded. The intention was, on completion of the first survey, to examine all subsequent prisoners oa Arst admission. This latter arrangement finally proved impracticable and the scheme had to be temporarily abandoned. The result of the first survey makes interesting reading and reflects considerable credit on conditions there. indicating that, at least from a health point of view, a prison sentence is no hardship. The results of this survey are as follows:
Number of inmates X-rayed
גן
*** Pam
re-X-rayed (large film)
active cases
Percentage satering from active
tuberculosis
Hospital treatment.
Long term. Short term. Total.
1,034 60
M
1,407
2,461
74
124
67
96
2.65% 4.26%
3.8645
The results of treatment of tuberculosis sufferers in the Government hospitals are herewith consolidated for simplifica- tion.
(0) No. of patients remaining in Hospital at
last day of previous year
(b) Admissions
ANNA SEMANAS
1. Admitted through Harcourt Clinic. 449
221
Total of (i) to (iii).....
181
2. Discharged against medical advice. 3. Died *****
143
54
4. Transferred to Non-Tuberculosis
and Convalescent Hospitals
18
Total of patients discharged
396
(2) Number
of patients remaining in Hospitals as at last day of the year.
201
Future development.
Plans are now in being for extension of the Clinic service by the erection of a new clinic in Kowloon.
The amount of money requested for tuberculosis main- tenance for the financial year 1950-1951 has been doubled.
Plans for B.C.G. campaign are slow to materialise but action is planned to commence probably within the next eighteen months.
| Outlook.
To make any forecast as to future commitments of the tuberculosis service would be to make prediction as to future political developments in China, which is beyond the scope of this report. It is not the present policy to restrict treatment to bona fide Hong Kong citizens and in the absence of such qualification, we must face the prospect of ever increasing demands on the service as its scope and resources expand.
2. Transfers from Non-Tuberculosis
and Convalescent Hospitals
3. Transfers from Ruttonjee Sana-
torium
Total admissions
15
466
A. S. MOODIE,
M.O. i/c Tuberculosis Clinics.
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