225. 10,322 inpatients were treated during the year as com- pared to 9,819 in 1950.
226. There were 629 deaths, 221 (over one third) of which occurred within 24 hours of admission. Of the deaths occurring within 24 hours of admission, 69 were children under 2 years of
age.
227, The Maternity Wing of 37 beds continued to be in- creasingly busy as the following figures for the year show: --
229. Operations performed in the Surgical operating theatres numbered 5190; the annual increase is indicated in the following yearly figures:
1948
1949
1950
1961
Year
No. of operationa
4250
4460
4563
6190
Total cases treated
Live births
2,118
1,910
Still births
37
Neonatal deaths
35
Maternal deaths
3 (2 of which had never
attended ante-natal clinics)
55
Statistical rates were:
No. of Caesarian Sections
Maternal Mortality
Still births
Neonatal Mortality
1.4 per 1,000
19.9
JJ
18.3
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228. The yearly increase în maternity work is shown in the following figures:—
1948
1949
1964
1951
Year
No. of Live births
719
1,164
1,680
1.910
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230. The Blood Bank arranged over 1,000 transfusions dur- ing the year and continues to be increasingly used.
231. Attendances at casualty and hospital clinics in 1951 were 19,065 of which 14,248 were new cases.
KOWLOON HOSPITAL.
232. Kowloon Hospital is the only emergency hospital for the mainland; its 281 beds are quite inadequate for dealing with the amount of work it is called upon to meet, but Kowloon will have to await the new hospital before it can be considered to be supplied with an adequate number of beds.
233. During 1951 there has been a further considerable in- crease in the amount of work done by every department of this hospital as compared with previous years. The problem of dealing with all the medical demands of Kowloon and the New Territories increases each year and throws a very great strain on the existing medical facilities.
234. In order to ease the pressure of in-patient accom- modation, a new block was built during the year, this gave a further 72 beda bringing the total of beds up to 231.
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