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Table IX. -Shewing the ADMISSIONS into and DEATHS in the GOVERNMENT LUNATIC ASYLUMS during each Month of the Year 1903.

1

1

3

July, August,

September, October, November,

ASIATICS INCLUDING

EUROPEANS.

COLOURED.

JAPANESE.

MONTHS.

Total

Total Admissions. Deaths.

Admissions. Deaths. Admissions. Deaths.

Admissions. Deaths.

Remaining on the 1st

January, 1903, .

2

10

January,

10

February,

March,

April,

May,

June,

にこ

19

17

13

11

15

11

17

10

17

$

1

3

3

1

2

1

1

6

I

December,

1

9

1

Total,

44

3

ΤΟ

101

9

155

12

ERNEST A. R. LAING, Medical Officer in charge of Asylums,

Table X.-Shewing the Number of Patients in the AsTLums during the year 1903, under the respective Diseases.

ASIATICS (JAPANSE

EUROPEANS.

INDIANS & COLOURED.

INCLUDED).

Total.

Males.

Females.

Males. Females.

Males, Females.

Mania,

Dementia,

Melancholia,

Delusional Insauity,

Epilepsy,

Alcoholism

and Delirium

Tremens,

25

Senile Insanity,,

Spinal Meningitis,

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1

I

17

9

33

29

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44

1

6

11

5

33

:

2

1

1

20

155

Under Observation,

3

1

Total,..

41

3

10

73

28

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ERNEST A. R. LAING,

Medical Officer in charge of Asylums,

Report on the Infectious Diseases Hospitals.

Hongkong, 29th February, 1904.

SIR,-I have the honour to forward the Annual Report an 1 Returns for the Hospital for Infectious Diseases at Kennedy Town, and for the Hospital Hulk Hygeia, for the year 1903.

I took over charge of the hospital from Dr. Tuoмsox on the 22nd August. Small-pox.-37 cases were admitted and 7 terminated fatally-3 of the fatal cases were of the hæmorrhagic type, and 1 case died of a syphilitic complication. Salol and zinc oxide were given in the majority of cases during the suppurative stage. With some of the later cases I tried carbolic acid in twelve-grain doses every 4 hours. This seemed to me to dry up the vesicles, and, where suppuration had already set in, to limit it. The cases I tried it in were too few to enable me to draw any definite conclusions as to its efficacy, but I mean to continue the trial. addition these patients are kept in rooms into which only red light is allowed to penetrate.

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