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The cases which were not Plague were sent in as suspected Plague, but were sub- sequently transferred to the Tung Wah Hospital. Of the Plague cases two were transferred elsewhere, one to Canton to die, and one to the Government Plague Hospital, leaving 134 cases actually treated, of these 122 died, .e., 91 per cent., and 12 recovered. under European treatment and 3 recovered.
6 cases were
15 other cases under Chinese treatment received Carbolic Acid internally and 2 recovered. The remaining 4 recoveries were under Chinese treatment alone.
87 of the cases were males and 49 females. The types of the disease were as follows:-
Bubonic..... Septic Pneumonic
117
18
1
Total.......... 136
All the cases which recovered were of the Bubonic type.
Not much operative work is as yet undertaken at the Tung Wah Hospital, on account of the unfavorable conditions as to nursing available. As often as possible serious surgical cases are persuaded to permit themselves to be transferred to the Civil Hospital. A con- siderable number of minor operations were performed, however, and a few of greater importance, including 2 amputations of the hand, cataract extraction, iridectomy and removal of fibroids.
The Western-treating staff consists of Dr. JEU HAWK assisted by three students of the Hongkong College of Medicine for Chinese, one of them doing the vaccinations, and the other two acting as dispensers and surgical dressers.
I attach a report, kindly furnished by Dr. HARSTON, on the Eye Department. It is evident that the work of this department is increasing rapidly and will soon he too' exten- sive for a private practitioner to undertake alone. It is to be hoped that a European trained Chinese doctor will be appointed in the near future, with Dr. HARSTON as Consulting Ophthalmic Surgéon.
In last year's report Dr. THOMSON drew attention to the alarming increase of Beri-beri and the satisfactory decrease in the admissions for Malaria. This year, however, Beri-beri cases have diminished by 214 but Malaria shows an increase of 95 cases.
The figures for the last ten years are as follows :—
Beri-beri.
Malaria.
1897,....
Admissions.
...173..
Deaths.
.102
Admissions.
Deaths.
.571......
191
1898,
1899...
118.......
..279...........
84.
.123..
..521.
122
.305.....
58
1900......
.361...
214.
.541..
159
1901,..................
112...
..219.
.122
1902,.
... 414........
.217...
....403.................
..119
1903,....
.277.
.....170.
.221......
61
1904,....
742..
.329.
.212.
56
1905,..
731..
153...
48
1906,.....
.517.
.257.
.248..
96
All cases of Malaria are treated by European methods:
Dr. THOMSON acted as Inspecting Medical Officer from the beginning of the year till 7th September.
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