The Hospital buildings of the: Mu It was, however, during the second halt ofthe year that the activities ff the Hospitals' Division were. great est, The outbreak of Sino-Japanese hostilities on August 13 necessitated evacuation of all Municipal Hospitals ud Clintes. and organization of tem~ porary hospitals inthe Central and Western Districts. The opening of these temporary hospitals was rendered an extremely. urgent matter by the outbreak of cholera which rapidly assumed. epidemic proportions, as also did dysentery and typhoid fever. This was attributable tothe large influx of refugees from the areas of hostilities.
The Tuberculosis Sanatorium was evacuated without dificult on the evening of August 12, The Chinese Isolation Hospital, Municipal Isolation Hospital, Nurses Quarters, Mental Hospital and Central Laundry were transferred to other accommodation on August 13, On August 14 arrangements were made to. evacuate the Munteipal Police Hospital, Ward Rona, but the first convoy was forced to return owing to aerial activity, On 'August 15, however, the hospital was. evacuated' with great dimeulty, two vans Ju the convoy were damaged by shell fire and one driver wounded by shrapnel. The hospital was trans ferred to the Chose Bank Building but these premises proved unsuitable and it was moved to the vacated British Military Hospital at 24 Cen tral Road on the following morning. The peregrinations of this hospital did not end at this stage, and it was again obliged to move to the Ka-Goorle School en October 14 as the British Military were forced to, extend. their hospital necommodation, The Mental Hospital, which _had keen transferred to the Foreign Gaol, Ward Road, as a measure of safety, lad again to be evacuated owing bombing and shelling in that area This was performed on August 18, eases and staff being sent to the lee Hospital where. special wards were prepared, Finally, on September M4 the cases were sent to the Mental Block of the Russian Orthodox Confraternity Hospital where they continue to receive treatment. hostilities occurred in that Nine convict patients were killed and 60 wounded. Other Gaol buildings were damaged, including the Indian Staff Quarters. Several Indian Warders were injured and transferred to the Municipal Police Hospital.
The Gaol, however, was not evacuated, and arrangements trade to transfer 250 sick convicts to areas South of the Soochow Creek failed materialize.
Evacuation and re-organization of Municipal "Hospitals was efficiently and smoothly performed. The Medical Ofleers and Nursing Sta performed their Individual duties ereditably and the conduct of the Chinese domestic staff was also praise worthy.
Fortunately, the end of the year showed the measles epidemic under control. This was due in part to the hospitalization of cases from Refugee Camps on a fairly large scale, and flo, to the generous" manner in which the Public responded to the call for donors of blood from which fantlemeasles serum was prepared and administered.
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