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Of the larger buildings, the Harbour Office and Western Market were completed and the New Law Courts and New Government Offices were under construction. The Gunpowder Depôt, Extension to Staff Quarters Government Civil Hospital, Taipo Quarters, Bacteriological Institute and Volunteer Headquarters were completed. A Branch Post Office in Kowloon and another in Shanghai were completed and a Public Mortuary near Yaumati and Time Ball Tower on Blackhead's Hill, Kowloon, were begun. The works of reconstruction of gullies and extension of nullah training were continued, $10,000 being spent on the former and over $16,000 on the latter. A large tank for flushing a portion of the Sewerage System of the City was constructed in Blake Garden, a rifle range for the use of the Volunteer Reserve Association was laid out at the Peak and the extensions of the Waterworks at Lai Chi Kok for the supply of the Shipping were completed.
The Mee Lun Lane Improvement Scheme was undertaken and was well advanced at the close of the year. The system of 100-foot roads in Kowloon was extended; Salisbury Road was opened as far as Robinson Road in connection with the new Star Ferry landing place; a mass of rock was removed to enable Des Voeux Road to be extended past Messrs. Blackhead's lots and a commencement was made with the removal of the hill North of Yaumati Theatre, the material being used for private reclamation work North of the Naval Coaling Depôt. Some property in Hunghom Village was resumed to admit of further extension of the system. Important extensions of Conduit Road in Easterly and Westerly directions and of the road past Kowloon City were undertaken, substantial progress being made with both works. The latter road is being further extended to join the military roads which have been constructed in this neighbourhood.
The extension and reconstruction of the Albany Filter Beds was continued, fair pro- gress being made with the work.
The work on the Rider Main System was completed in all the districts to which it is intended to apply it.
The total amount expended on Public Works Extraordinary, exclusive of Rider Mains and other Advance Accounts, was $1,463,868.66 and on works annually recurrent, $393.751.40.
VI-GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS.
(a.) HuSPITALS.
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. 2,745 in-patients and 16,768 out- patients were treated during the year 1906. 239 cases of Malarial Fever were admitted as against 267 in 1905 and 223 in 1904. The Maternity Hospital contains 6 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 64 confinements occurred during the year. The Victoria Hospital, at the Peak contains 41 beds. During 1906, 278 patients were under treatment. Kennedy Town Hospital contains 26 beds. In 1906, 78 cases were treated, of which 49 were Plague. On the "Hygeia" 73 cases were treated, of which 66 were Small-pox.
(b.) LUNATIC ASYLUM.
The Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separate, the European portion containing 8 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 184 patients of all races were treated during 1906, and there were 9 deaths.