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Annexe J.

REPORT OF THE INSPECTING MEDICAL OFFICER TO

THE TUNG WAH HOSPITAL.

The admissions to the TUNG WAH HOSPITAL during the past ten years have been as follows:-

1897,

1898,

1899,

1900,

1901,

1902,

1903,

1904,

1905,

1906,

.2,776

.2,898

.2,542

.2,981

.2,989

.2,576

.2,457

.2,667

..2,833

.3,200

At

from the 2,003 w

TH institut? 128 to

beginning of the year 1906 there were 170 patients remaining in the wards revious year; 3,200 were admitted during 1906, making a total of 3,370 cases;

discharged; 1,203 died; leaving 164 in the Hospital at the close of the year.

,003 discharges includes 194 cases, which were transferred for treatment to other , as follows:-13 to the Government Civil Hospital, 50 to Kennedy Town Hospital, Tung Wah Plague Branch Hospital at Kennedy Town and 3 to Canton.

fatal cases 319 were in a dying condition at the time of admission, and died within 24 hours.

There remains a net total of 2,687 patients actually treated in the Tung Wah Hospital, of whom 1,422, .e., 52.9 per cent., were under treatment by European methods, and 1,265, i.e., 47.1 per cent., under Chinese native treatment.

The number of visits to the Out-Patient Department was 65,588 and of these 63,640 were under Chinese treatment and 1,948 under European.

2,448 persons were vaccinated at, and in connection with, the Hospital.

1,993 destitute persons were temporarily sheltered and fed, until they could be sent on to their native villages or otherwise provided for.

635 dead bodies were brought to the Hospital Mortuary to await burial.

In the case of as many as possible a diagnosis of the cause of death is made from the general appearance combined with the results of cross-questioning of relatives for the purposes of registration, but whenever it seems advisable for medico-legal or public health reasons, or because of contradictory evidence regarding the illness preceding death, to require an internal post- mortem examination, no objection is ever made by the Hospital authorities. 192 of the bodies brought in dead, and also 199 bodies of persons who died in the Hospital, chiefly persons moribund on admission, i.e., 391. bodies in all, were sent to the Government Public Mortuary for internal examination.

of

Free burial was provided by the Hospital for the bodies of 2,386 poor people.

As in previous years, while Plague was prevalent, two large wards were set aside for the observation and diagnosis of cases suspected to be Plague.

The Plague Branch at Kennedy Town was opened on 24th April, and remained in use till 8th August. There were 140 admissions, 136 Plague, 2 Pneumonia, 1 Gono- rrhoea and 1 Malaria.