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milder cases of tuberculosis. It serves not only the small island of Cheung Chau but the neighbouring islanda also. The staff is small and the services offered are limited, any major surgical or emergency case being transferred to Queen Mary Hospital by ambulance launch. It has been suggested that a helicopter ambulance would be more expeditious. The work done has considerably increased as can be seen from the following figures:

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LILL

J457

195.0 1954 1954

13,945 16,830 22.299 10178

1.593 1,683 1,589 1,719

8,180 11,85 12,920 12,120

Out-patients (new cases) In-patients admitted

Vaccinations/Inoculations

Maternity Hospitals.

79. As has been stated previously in this Report, a great deal of maternity work is done by the Government Midwifery Service and by private midwives. Still more is done by certain non Government institutions with or without financial assistance from Government, most notably perhaps at Kwong Wah Hospital and at the Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital. The main Government maternity hospital is the Tsan Yuk Hospital, an institution of 85 beds housed in old and thoroughly unsuitable premises which has served the Colony well for many years. This hospital, which is very shortly to be replaced by a modern 200 bed maternity hospital, is the main training centre in the Colony for medical students and midwives and the Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the University of Hong Kong is responsible for supervising the clinical work. The volume of work done is stupendous. No fewer than 7,164 patients were admitted to the 85 beds during the year and the total number of deliveries was 6,606, that is to say some 7.9% of all births registered in the Colony during the year took place in this une comparatively small hospital. There were 7 maternal deaths in this large number of deliveries, many of them being of an emergency nature or complicated in some way, giving a maternal mortality rate of 1.06 per thousand deliveries. It is worthy of note that among the 6,433 deliveries

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The new Pean Yuk Maternity Hospital of 200 beda.