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Annexe I.

REPORT OF THE INSPECTING MEDICAL OFFICER TO

THE TUNG WAI HOSPITAL.

The admissions to the Tung Wah Hospital during the past ten years have been as follows:

1898,

1899,

1900,

1901,

1902,

1903,

1904,

1905,

1906,

2,898

.2,542

....2,981

.2,989

...2,576

2,457

....2,667

....2,833

...3,200

3,796

1907,

At the beginning of the year 1907 there were 164 patients remaining in the wards from the previous year; 3,796 were admitted during 1907, making a total of 3,960 cases; 2,549 were discharged; 1,206 died; leaving 205 in the Hospital at the close of the year.

Of the 3,960 cases treated, 88 were transferred to other institutions, as follows :— -17 to the Government Civil Hospital, 59 to the Infectious Diseases Hospitals, and 12 (Lepers) to Canton.

Of the fatal cases 354 were in a dying condition at the time of admission, and died

within 24 hours.

There remains a net total of 3,518 patients actually treated in the Tung Wah Hospital. of whom 1.796, ¿e., 51:05 per cent., were under treatment by European methods, and 1,722, ie., 48-95 per cent., under Chinese native treatment as against 529 and 47·1 last year.

The number of visits to the Out-Patient Department was 70,843 and of these 68,687 were under Chinese treatment and 2,156 under European.

1,405 persons were vaccinated at, and in connection with, the Hospital (2,448 in 1906).

950 destitute persons were temporarily sheltered and fed, until they could be sent on to their native villages or otherwise provided for (1,993 in 1906).

696 dead bodies were brought to the Hospital Mortuary to await burial (635 in 1906). 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. 100 of the bodies brought in dead, and also 99 bodies of persons who died in the Hospital, chiefly of persons moribund on admission, i.e., 199 bodies in all, were sent to the Governinent Public Mortuary for internal examination (391 in 1906).

Free burial was provided by the Hospital for the bodies of 2,756 poor people (2,386 in 1906).