125. Table 35 shows the number of patients attended by a ductor ur midwife in the various institutions in the Colony from 1946 to 1951. In view of the large numbers of newcomers to the Colony it is surprising that they should have learned so quickly to appreciate the value of the maternity service provided.
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Births attended by a doctor or a midwife.
Queen Mary Hospital
Kowloon Hospital
Tsan Yuk Hospital
Eastern Maternity Hospital
Lai Chi Kok Female Frison
Hospital
St. John Hospital Private Hospitals
Government Dispensaries
(Attended by Midwives) Private Maternity Homes
Total births delivered
in
hospitals and maternity homes
Domiciliary cases delivered
by Midwives
Total Number of Birthe
attended
1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1961
117 398 719 1,164 1,580 1,910 979 1,2611 1.189 1.287 1,576 3,175 2,645 3,826) 4,458
6,012 6.7M1 1.033 1,831 1,783 1,995 2,254
ต 379
4.058 0,068 12,161 15,487 16,333 20,002
640 1,260| 1,522 2,013|=2.693| 3,544 9,586) 18,150; 14324| 18,730 21.220 22,338
18,803 30,594 36,264 44587 50,355) 58,290
6,628 9,237: 10,120 8.991 9.125! 9,064
24.521 39.831 46,384 53,578 59,480 67,444
426. The Supervisor of Midwives, who is a senior doctor in the department, combines her supervisory duties with the secretaryship of the Midwives Board, and this close liaison between the supervisory staff and the Board is an important factor in the efficiency of the maternity service.
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IV. GOVERNMENT ASSISTED HOSPITALS
427. There are five hospitals in the Colony ruu by charitable institutions which receive A considerable grant from Government. Three of them, known generally as the Chinese hospitals, and comprising the Tung Wah Hospital with 495 beds, the Kwong Wah Hospital with 340 beds, and the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital with 250 beds, are part of the charitable work carried out by the Tung Wah Board of Directors. The actual administration of the hospitals is under the control of the Tung Wah Hospital Medical Committee comprising the three Principal Directors for the year with the three Medical Superintendents and two advisers, and is under the chairmanship of the Director of Medical and Health Services.
428. The two other assisted hospitals are the Nethersole and Affiliated Hospitals, associated with the London Missionary Society, with 185 beds, and the Hong Kong Anti-Tuberculosis Association's Ruttonjee Sanatorium with 163 beds.
TUNG WAH GROUP HOSPITALS
429. Treatment in these hospitals is for the benefit of the poor, but there are a small number of private wards.
430. During the year the total number of cases treated in the three hospitals was 45,441 as compared with 40,909 in the previous year and the combined attendances at the out-patient department amounted to 174,395 which compares with 139,616 în 1950.
431. The official bed accommodation is somewhat misleading in these hospitals, as they endeavour to meet with any demands made upon them, and the number of patients in both the Tung Wah and Kwong Wah Hospitals often exceeded by two hundred or more the official number of beds.
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