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Abstract

With participation from academics and the Director of the Conservation Office of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department the archives were accorded high importance for safeguarding the medical heritage of Hong Kong. [...]it was decided that Kwong Wah Hospital would avail the earliest available hospital register of 1917 for Tung Wah Group of Hospitals and the Leisure and Cultural Services Department to launch an experimental conservation project to restore the first registry. In addition to the large collection of hospital registers, in which the patient's name, hometown, address, age, symptoms, and other information were recorded, there were 377 items of birth records from 1935 to 1991, in which the mother's name, age, address, number of births, husband's profession, and other information were recorded. Labour room birth records of Kwong Wah Hospital from the beginning of the labour room records (1936-1938), the Japanese occupation ofHong Kong (1941-1944), and the post-war period (1948-1950) compared with the modern obstetrics era (2014-2016) Compared with the historical data, in modern obstetrics there were significant decreases in maternal mortality and neonatal death, which are obviously related to healthcare improvements in modern obstetrics and neonatal intensive care unit support.

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Title
Labour room birth records of Kwong Wah Hospital since 1935
Author
Leung, W C; Tai, S M; Sham, Alice; Yip, Winnie; See, Stella
First page
374
Section
COMMENTARY
Publication year
2021
Publication date
Oct 2021
Publisher
Hong Kong Academy of Medicine
ISSN
10242708
e-ISSN
22268707
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Chinese; English
ProQuest document ID
2619569143
Copyright
© 2021. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.