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Enclosure IV.

Report of the Inspecting Medical Officer of the Tung Wah Hospital.

TUNG WAH HOSPITAL, HONGKONG, 10th March, 1909.

SIR, I have the honour to submit, for the information of His Excellency the Governor, the Annual Report of the Tung Wah Hospital for the year 1899.

The number of patients in the wards at the beginning of the year was 148; 2,542 were admitted during 1899, making a total of 2,790, under treatment; 1,684 were discharged; 852 died; leaving 154 in the Hospital on the evening of 31st December.

The Admissions during the past ten years have been :—

1890,.. 1891..

1892,

1893,

1894,

1895,.

1896..

1897,

..2,260

.2.514

.2,455

.2,255

.2,354

.2.732

.2,041

2,776

.2,898

...2,542

1898.

1899,.

Of the 2,542 Admissions, 1,491 were treated by the Chinese native doctors: 556 were under Western treatment; 495 are classed as transferred to other Hospitals. In this 495, however, 75 cases of Plague and 1 case of Small-pox- brought to Tung Wah Hospital in a dying condition, and are allowed to die before removal to Kennedy Town-are included for convenience of classification, so that the actual number removed elsewhere for treatinent was 419. These are distributed as follows:-

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19 to the Government Civil Hospital, 2 to the Lunatic Asylum, 135 to Kennedy Town Hospital, 262 to the Tung Wah Branch Hospital, and 1 to the Italian Convent.

Ninety thousand and eighty-one (90,081) consultatious in the Out-Patient Department are reported by the native doctors. In 1898 the number was 90,880.

Two thousand two hundred and sixty-one (2,261) vaccinations were performed, as compared with 1,588 in the previous year. in Hongkong and the out-lying districts, as shown in the appended Table, by a Public Vaccinator in connection with this Hospital, under the direct supervision of Dr. CHUNG.

Seven hundred and eighty-eight (788) male Destitutes were supplied with food and shelter for varying periods during the year, and given such further assistance as was considered desirable by the Directors of the Hospital. They came from sources as follows:--

Shipwrecked sailors and fishermen,. Sent from Registrar-General's Office, Brought by Police,

Lodged for Pó Léung Kuk Committee, Arrived from Saigon,

75

142

8

70

418

Japan,

5

Amoy,

23

Canton,

11

Swatow,

20

17

Recommended by various hongs, &c...

16

788

Of the 832 deaths, 268 (177 male and 91 female) were moribund on admission, death occurring within few hours after reception into the Receiving Ward. Thus of the 268 moribund cases 122 are classed in the Table showing Admissions and Mortality as having been under Western treatment, and 146 as under Chinese treatment.

Of these 852 deaths, 32 bodies (27 male and 5 female) were sent to the Public Mortuary for internal examination for the purpose of obtaining the exact cause of death.