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invariably reports that the case was an incurable one, the admission of which is not, very properly we think, allowed by the Hospital regulations. If incurables were granted admission the Tung Wa Hospital would soon be filled with the incurables of the Kwang Tung Province. To prevent misunderstanding we recommend that in future the Tung Wa Committee be requested to send all such cases, if the patients are willing to go, to the Civil Hospital for such action as the Colonial Surgeon may deem advisable. If the patient be unwilling to go, the Committee should notify the Colonial Surgeon.
44. We recommend that the monthly meetings of the Committee of the Hospital with the Registrar General and Colonial Surgeon and the daily inspections of the latter officer be continued.
45. We are of opinion that the Committee of the Hospital elected annually by the subscribers to carry on the work of the Hospital has, as a rule, discharged zealously and efficiently the duties entrusted to it and deserves commendation for the charitable work which it performs and to which it devotes much time and attention, though the members are invariably business men much occupied with their own commercial concerns. At the same time we think that it would be of advantage to the Hospital, would facilitate its relations with the Government and the public, and would secure continuity and uniformity in its arrangements, if there were associated with the annually elected Committee some Chinese residents of long standing who have had experience of the Hospital and whose advice would be respected by, and whose views would carry weight with, the Chinese community.
46. In conclusion, we think it only right to state that, in our opinion, the Tung Wa Hospital has done excellent work in the past and that, if the improvements we have recommended are adopted, it will be able in the future to continue its good work with still greater efficiency and with increased benefits to the indigent suffering Chinese for whose welfare the Hospital was established.
We have the honour to be,
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HONGKONG, 24th September, 1896.
Sir,
Your most obedient Servants,
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Chairman.
A. M. THOMSON.
HO KAI