The Hawaiian gazette., 1873-12-24
The Queens Hospital.

The Board of Trustees Of this Institution held its
regular semi annual meeting at the Court House, on
the 23d inst. at IL In the absence Of the Vice
President, Mr.. John Montgomery was called to the
Chair. The reports of the Treasurer and Physician
which we publish below, show that the expenditures
of the Hospital exceed the receipts about s. 600.
Still the great efficiency with which that institution
has been carried during the last two years leaves
no regrets the apparent mbarrassment in its nan-
cal condition The Visiting Committee, in its report
to the Board, commended in the highest terms the
untring and energetic efforts of both the Physician
and Purveyor of the Queens Hospital, who have
succeeded in making that Institution popular with
the native population and instrumental of great good
to the Hawaiian nation:
HOSoLULU. Dec. 22d, 1873.
To THE TRUsrEEs OF THE QUEENS HOSPITAL:
Gentleum: I have the honor to submit the fol-
lowing report for the quarter ending 2lst Decem.
Der. The total number of patients at present in the
Hospital is IS, viz 40 males and 20 females Ha-
wniian), and foreigners a paying). The number
of admissions during that period have been IO9, viz
Ga males and 80 females Hawaiians, and 10 foreign
ers. Discharged, 1Ol, viz S. males and 80 females
(Hawaiians), and II foreigners. Besides the above
100 cases have been entered in the dispensary
books making total of 269 for the quarter. and
4,6l6 prescriptions made up. The greatest number
of patients in the Hospital at one time was Ss-the
smallest 65. The daily average of indoor patients
for the quarter IS dispensary- s. During the
quarter there have been deaths-5 males and fe-
males (Hawaiiansl, and l foreigner l from conges.
ton Of the lungs, from typhoid fever, from pyn-
mia, from hemoptysis from accident (foreigner),
! from debility. from chronic dyseutery, and from
pulmonary consumption.
During the year AS cases have been treated as in
ternal patients 90 more than in 1922, making n
daily average of So Discharged, 426. OF these 200
we're from Oahu, "a from Hawaii 81 from Maui,
? from Molokai, 20 from Kauai, from Niihau, and
from the southern Islands, besides Al foreigners
at the dispensary S25, making total of 1878 new
cases, besides number of regular attenders not re-
entered in the books. There have been 4amputations.
operations for the removal of large tumors besides
a number Of minor operations, all of which have been
successful.
During the year there have been only % deaths;
amongst these l was from suicide, l from accident
(both foreiguersl, from pulmonary consumption,
and incurable cases who succumbed very shortly
after admission, which certainly goes far to prove
what proper control and sanitary regulations, vigOr
ously enforced, may yet do to save this race,
Twelve months ago considered it my duty to d.
the attention of the Trustees to the great and
rapid increase of syphilis dating may say from the
very hour the late Minister of the Interior saw fit to
take upon himself the authority to abrogate the Act
to Mitigate" &C., "a law which for some reason or
other that is still not enforced) 1t again becomes
my painful duty to state that this dsease-wbich has
already committed such frightful ravages upon the
natives of these Isands-is rapidly and fearfuy in
creasng, in proof of which need only say that ia,
nearly 40 per cent of all the treated in the
Hospital this year, of this disease, besides which
many of the others could clearly be traced to the
same cause. Very respectfully submitted.
ROBERT McKIBBIN, JR, NJ. D.,
Surgeon to the Queens Hospital,
CHAREs r. BISHOP, Treasurer, in Account with
the Queens Hospital Honolulu, showing
Receipts and Expenditures during