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Hygiene has been made a compulsory subject, and has been taught with satisfactory results in all Government and Grant Schools. 1,524 children received instrction in it during the year.
The Revenue derived from School Fees was $41,170.50. The Expenditure was $158,677.58, being 2.28% of the total expenditure of the Colony.
V.-PUBLIC WORKS.
The principal public works in progress during the year were the Tytam Tuk Water- works (1st Section) and the Kowloon Waterworks, both of which have been described in previous reports. The former made good progress and the latter fair; a Contract for 2 miles of the catchwaters in connection with it was let and was well advanced at the end of the year.
Of the larger buildings, the New Law Courts, Harbour Office and Western Market were all under construction, and the foundations of the New Government Offices were almost completed; the decision to erect a Clock Tower necessitating extra foundations prevented this Contract being entirely closed. The New Light and Tower at Green Island, the Disin- fecting Station in Kowloon, Mongkoktsui Market and Yaumati School were finished, and the Gunpowder Depôt, Extension to Staff Quarters Government Civil Hospital, Taipo Quarters, and Bacteriological Institute approached completion. The works of reconstruction of gullies and extension of nullah training were continued, $10,000 being spent on the former and over $20,000 on the latter: the Albany Nullah being one of the watercourses dealt with.
The Taikoktsui Reclamation was finished. $150,000 was spent on further resumption of insanitary property in the vicinity of Mee Lun Lane. The system of 100-foot roads in Kowloon was extended; the section of Robinson Road running North and South between the sea and the Yaumati Theatre was finished, and also the branch to the westward (Sixth Street), and some progress was made with a further extension of this system near the Disinfecting Station, without expense to the Colony as the spoil from this road excavation was used for private reclamation in front of the Pumping Station.
The excavation of the sites for the New Albany Filter Beds was completed and the New Watchmen's House built.
The work on the Rider Main System was continued and Districts Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 were completed and brought under control.
The total amount expended on Public Works Extraordinary, exclusive of the Praya East Reclamation and Rider-Mains, was $1,775,138.58, and on works annually recurrent, $383,798.06.
VI-GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS.
(a.) HOSPITALS.
Government Hospitals consist of the Civil Hospital to which is attached an isolated Maternity Hospital, the Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, the Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital, and the hulk "Hygeia" used mainly for the treatment of small-pox.
The Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 19 wards. 2,704 in-patients and 14,976 out- patients were treated during the year 1905, 267 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 223 in 1904 and 346 in 1903. The Maternity Hospital contains 6 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 64 confinements occurred during the year with 2 deaths, The Victoria Hospital, opened in November, 1903, by Sir HENRY BLAKE, is situated at the Peak and contains 41 beds. During 1905, 212 patients were under treatment. Kennedy Town Hospital contains 26 beds. In 1905, 42 cases were treated, of which 33 were plague. On the "Hygeia" 50 cases were treated, of which 48 were small-pox.