Reviewing this wide field of activity for 1036, the annual report states that from the point-of view of infectious disenco, the year as a whole has been healthy specially during the summer, but during the spring and winter the hospitals were quite busy, The admissions Increased by 10 per, cent. fon Fast year, from 1409 to 1,555, spite of the' lack of activity "during the summer months, There wore no definite cases of cholera, this being the fourth consecutive year during which the disease has been absent In hospitals,. There Was © large increase in smallpox in the winter months, there being 145 admissions with 48 deaths, as opposed to 41 eases with three deaths Inst year. These figures ave stil, however, only half of those of 1934
There was also minot epidemic of measles In. the spring, when 85 severe enses were admilled hospitals: of those there were thistecn deaths, all but two. being. Chine The figures for scarlet fever also. were nearly twice as many as In 1026. Out of 276 cases there were 13 deaths, Diphtheria showed a moderate. increase, there being 300. admissions with 70 deaths, as opposed to 207 admissions with' @3 deaths last yea, 'All deaths from this disease occurred among. the Chinese where the cases often are brought In already moribund, 'The disease ig often too {Advanced for serum to be of any valtie, while amongst the Chinese there' Is a very high percentage (about 33 per cent.) of laryngeal cases, Delay in Diphtheria Cases seems that only the most serous cases of this disease ever reach the stage of requesting admission "to hospital, og the danger of diphtheria being present In cases of sore throat nad not yet reached the consciousness the Chinese masses, Mortality from this disease among' the Chinese fg further Increased by the frequk refusal to submit to the operation of trachedtomy which ni though attended a high mortality, can save a rnlimber el enses which otherwise would surely dle, The building of the proposed new Fever and Menial Hospitals has been postponed atill further on the grounds of economy. The need for further mental accommodation has been conalderably reduced, but the necessity for new fever accommodation is bo-coming more and more urgent os the Chinese isolation hospital 1s in a most ailapldated state; since being con demned as unit for use as a hospital eight years ago, It has been frequently' patched up' os a temporary expedient, but It ennnot be expected 10 last for over In ths condition 'The foreign nursing staff recorded a total of 431 days off duty. during the year. 'This gute, among a staff of 22 gives an average of 10.6 days' sickness per annum, which Indleates the arduous nature of nursing in the Far East.
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