Sessional_Paper_1896 — Page 928

No. 173.

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SIR,

[ LIII]

(Acting Colonial Surgeon to Colonial Secretary.)

TUNG WA HOSPITAL, HONGKONG, 9th November, 1895.

I have the honour to report that amongst the admissions to this Hospital to-day are the following cases:

1st. CHAN LI, suffering from gun-shot wound of left arm received at Formosa

and now in a fœtid stinking condition.

2nd. CHU KUм SHEK with a gangrenous ulcer of leg.

3rd. WING UN suffering from sloughing phagodena (gangrene) of penis and

scrotum.

Not only will the present Committee refuse to allow these cases to be transferred to the Government Civil Hospital but they will not permit Mr. U I KAI to even dress the wounds.

Any one of these cases in a general ward are liable to induce hospital gangrene. I request instructions with regard to these and any similar cases which may occur. I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

J. M. ATKINSON.

The Honourable

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.

(Acting Colonial Surgeon to Colonial Secretary.)

No. TOT:

SIR,

GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL,

HONGKONG, 8th August, 1895.

I have the honour to suggest that the Justices of the Peace should be asked to include the Tung Wa Hospital in their usual round of the hospitals, as we may get from them numerous suggestions as regards improvement of details there. A book should be kept in the same manner as at other Justice of the Peace inspected institutions.

I have also to request that the following regulation be communicated to the Tung Wa Hospital Committee:-

"That no discharges from Hospital can take place unless they are certified by the visiting Medical Officer at his daily visit."

This is most essential because serious cases of disease have been removed from that institution, and the records may be considerably decreased in value by such conduct not to mention the fact that it may lead to serious sanitary trouble if infectious cases were treated in this way. I have already instilled into the doctors there that such things cannot be allowed, but it will be much better for this rule to be put down in writing and the patients to be brought up daily for inspection before discharge-as is done in every proper hospital.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

JAMES A. LOWSON, Acting Colonial Surgeon.

The Honourable

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.