Sessional_Paper_1893 — Page 343

Enclosure 1.

Report of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital.

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GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL,

HONGKONG, 18th March, 1893.

SIR,I have the honour to forward you my annual Report for the year 1892 with the Hospital Statistics.

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I. THE HOSPITAL BUILDINGS.

1. No alterations of any importance have been made to the existing buildings during the past

2. The office store and laundry accommodation as well as that for private paying patients mentioned in my last annual Report still remain necessary additions to this Institution if it is in the future to meet the public requirements of the Colony.

3. At no distant date it will, in my opinion, be necessary to provide further accommodation for female patients, and also increased facilities for the carrying out of surgical operations; they should, instead of being conducted as at present in the Wards, be performed in a separate semi-detached building as is the case in most well-conducted Hospitals.

4. The foregoing considerations, together with the continued increase of Chinese dwellings accom- panied by the night noises of the natives referred to in my last annual Report, seem to point to the advisability of reserving a new site in the vicinity of the Hospital Staff Quarters and Lunatic Asylums for the future construction of an entirely new Hospital, furnishing the increased accommodation required, and arranged in accordance with the best modern practice.

II-LUNATIC ASYLUMS.

5. In accordance with instructions contained in C. S. Letter 1,505 of 1891, the European and Chinese Lunatic Asylums have been under my charge during the past year.

6. The European Lunatic Asylum provides accommodation for 9 cases with adequate day room accommodation which in cases of emergency can be utilised for the treatment of patients not requiring separate accommodation.

There are also quarters for one European Wardmaster.

The building is provided with bath-rooms, kitchens, store accommodation, and the necessary out- buildings.

7. The Chinese Lunatic Asylum, situated in premises adjoining those of the European_Lunatic Asylum, includes quarters for a European Wardmaster, a Chinese Interpreter and attendant, one Chinese amah, in addition to accommodation for isolating sixteen separate patients, and as in the case of the European Lunatic Asylum should necessity arise further accommodation in the day room can be temporarily arranged.

8. The want of sufficient room and privacy is much felt for the satisfactory treatment of such class of patients.

III.-SMALL-POX HOSPITAL AND HYGEIA.

9. The temporary Small-pox buildings have been maintained and occupied by six patients.

10. The hospital ship Hygeia, moored off the north of Stonecutters' Island, has been called into requisition for the treatment of seven small-pox cases during the past year.

Of these three arrived by H.M.S. Orontes during the month of January, one by the S.S. Verona during the month of February, another during the same month from S.S. Teviot, one in October from the S.S. Tartar and one from the S.S. Flintshire during the month of December.

11. As this ship now forms a portion of the Hospital accommodation of the Colony the following short description of the arrangements on board will, doubtless, be of general interest.

12. The hospital ship Hygeia is 185 feet in length, 30 feet in breadth at water line, and has a draft of 8 feet, it consits of two Decks: the Upper and the Lower or Main Deck.