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HIS EXCELLENCY THR - GOVERNOR · ·LA YB · · ·
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to the fact that one of the conditions of this | Thomson) for the y years 1897 and 1898- free grant of laud, which Your Excellency has and whose able and enliglitened; seconder: Davi been instrumental in obtaining, is that the Chung, the resident surgeon, is due the credit >> building should be completed within 18 months of so gratifying and conspicuous à introconomi from the date of the grant, the Directors feel word of praise, too, should be given the Chineset that without so much substantial aid from one medical practitioners for the harmony, with and all it would have been practically impossible which they have carried on their own good Considerable interest was aroused in the for them to have been successful in carrying out work. Associate with the progress and success): Taipingshan district on Saturday afternoon by the proposed enlargement of the hospital now of the hospital must be mentioned also the the laying of the foundation stone of the extenso sorely needed. It would be ungracious of name of our Registrar-General, the Hon. J H. sion to the Tuno Wa Hospital in Po Yan Street. me were I to omit the individual names of car. Stewart Lookhert, C.M.G., whose intimate so- His Excellency the Governor (Sir Henry taiu gentlemen who were particularly energetic quaintance and sympathy with the Chinese and Blake, G.U.M.G) had kindly promised to per in their assistance with the suboription list. I, the special knowledge he possesses of their needs. forms the ceremony; and his arrival was therefore, desire to mention the names of have been most helpful in securing those reforms eagerly awaited by the residents of the Messrs. Lo Chi-tin, Li Yeuk-chuen, Chan Pik-which we can boast of to day. (Applause.); p locality, who crowded to their” windows - in
taun, Li-San-bin, Ho Fook, and Ho Kom-tong A DESCRIPTION OF TIE, NEW BUILDING,Ä sedres. As soon as His Excellency and party in this connection. The Directors remember I have touched on the question of the accom- appeared ¿he was accorded a typical Chinese that when they had the honour of being pre-modation of our new building. It is only fitting F greeting-gongs were beaten, orackers were sented to Your Excellency early this year, you that a description of its plan should be available let off, and above all were heard the quaint stated that you recognized the difficulty of strains of-a-Chinese baud. Accompanying the securing that change which means progress and present here to-day to examine the plan which Governors were Lady Blake, Miss Blake, Vis-improvement among a people so tenacious of is exhibited here this afternoon. The entrance count Suirdale (Private Secretary), Lienten- their customs as the Chinese. I think that will be from Po Yan Street leading into a ant Blake, A.D.C., and Captain Sanders, were we to look back into the history of this Central Hall. a Chinese: architectural charac... ADC They were met by Mr. Ho Tung, institution there can be little reason to doubt teristio, 25' by 23. There will be the indispon who conducted them to a large mat-shed mar- that "Example is better than precept" for, sable verandah on all four sides of the build-‹ quee, which had been most elaborately de- however deep-seated native sentiments mayght | ing, and so it is that the effect of the Central corated with flags, plants, and bunting. A be in favour of unscientific medical treatment, Hall will appear to advantage. The Superv large gallery had also been erected for the
the results of skill and superior methods as intendent's office and receiving room will face))- socommodation of the general public. Those practised by western nations, though slow each other on the left and right of the entrance present iucluded, in addition to many ladies,Îy, have surely found their way into the Tang respectively In addition to a large ward to HomJ.-H: Stewart Lockhart, C.M.G., Colonial | Wa, and this furnishes an excuse for giving a accommodate 18 beds on the ground floor thers Secretary, Hon. W. Meigh Goodman, Acting short sketch of its history. In 1851 a temple will be the attendants' room lavatory, and Chief Justice Bir Thomas Jackson, Colonel was erected for the receptions of ancestral clothes store, besides kitchen, allen ranged in a the O'Gorman, the Hon. F. H. May, C.M.Gtablets. It soon, however, developed into a more satisfactory manner than ɑnow exists in Captain Superintendent of Police; Hon. E kind of native hospital to which Chinese were the old hospital. The first floor. is laid-out tó B. Belilios, CM., Hon, Dr. Ho Kai, taken in a moribund condition, and the subse- take in a general ward identical with: that on-- HonBD. Ormsby, Hon T H. White-quent history of the Taz, as the place was then the floor below And, as I have already men head, Dr. Hartigan, Dr. Gibson, Dr. Bate- called, is one of neglect and misery, which happily |tioned, there will be the special feature of an- son Wright, Dr. Atkinson, Mr. F. J. Bade-
gave way in 1861 to the revival of a plan which operating room with top-lights. There will ley, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Mr. had been mooted before for the establishment also be four small wards which may be used for Bounsevelle Wildman, U.S. Consul-General; Sr. of a Chinese hospital. Then, as now, the matter midwifery onses or for the greater comfort of Volpicelli, Italian Consul; Mr. A G Roma-
was very warmly taken upby the leading Chinese that class of patients who would prefer to pay...... no, Portuguese Consul-General; Messrs. W. residents, and without difficulty a sum of 830,000 for better accommodation. Lavatory; attend-is Whiley, W. Duggan, J. Plummer, W. D. was subscribed by the Chinese. Preliminary ante' room, and all the other necessary conveni- Braidwood, G. C Anderson, J. R. Michael, dificulties having been overcome Earl Granville ences will go to make up the plan of this floor; J. Dyer: Ball, G. Piarcy, jua., R. C. Wilcox, (1869) approved the expenditure towards levelling which has verandahs overlooking Po Yan, Cat Tomes, J. J. Franois, Q.C., A. Seth, and preparing a suitable site for the hospital. Station, and Market Streets. When the build F.Browne, J. Lemm, D. R. Crawford, J. J. And so it was the site of Taipingshan thisings has thus been described, I think it will Leiria, &o;
hill of universal peace was made a gift of be generally admitted that the Directors, the Quesa to the Chinese Community." Oa with the cordial co-operation of Drs. Atkin the 14th February, 1871, the Hospital was son, Lowson, and Thomson, from whom they opened with great pomp and ceremony, Gover- received valuable suggestions, have given nor Sir Richard Graves McDonnell, who hon- much careful thought to providing a well- oured the proceedings by his presence, charao- | planned building with light and ventilation- « terising it as an event of extreme-interest not | for the suffering humanity that will be housed m only to the Chinese community but to the comin it. Summarizing, therefore, the history of munity generally. In the concluding portion the Tung Wa, we find in it the first establish of the despatch to the Secretary of State send- ment of a permanent institution by the Chinese “ ing an account of the ceremony, the Governor for the treatment of the sick. I have good prophetically said that be"looked forward reason to believe that it is not only the first with cheerfulness and hope to the future hospital of its kind in Hongkong, but also of the Hospital." It would have been thronghont China. It owes its existence to, 8 matter of extreme satisfaction could and is dependent for its enlargement upon, this Father of this Benevolent Institution have the benevolent spirit of Chinese merchants and lived to witness to-day the vast development of compardores the originators of the scheme the good work in the inauguration of which generously aided by all other sections of the he took so leading a part. From its establish community and the helpful influence of a ment the Tung: Wa Hospital appears to have Government ready to do the greatest good too pursued the eren tenor of its way until the year the greatest number: The Tung Wa Hospitale of the first outbreak of bubonic plagne in Hong shows that the Chinese mind is not unsusvalu kong. It was in 1-94 that the Tang We was ceptible of good influence, and let us hope that se brought so much into prominense and with it it will dong continue in tits carour of useful.... the alleged maladministration of the institution ness and so merit the good-will-which it has v So vigorous was the campaign that was waged earned from a wall-disposed community. Let against this hospital that fors time it occupied us trust also that its example will bear good much of the attention of the Executive as well fruit in the more remote parts of China, prin. as of the Legislative Council. Ultimately, oipally in the adoption of a scientific treatment a Commission of Inquiry was appointed in of such cases as medical skill can cure. And in 1896, and the result of its exhaustive labours saying this I look hopefully to the success of is to be found within the covers of a blue our maternity ward for reducing the presently book comprising some 200 pages of closely large infantile mortality among the Chinese in printed foolscap. While recommending a series Hongkong. It remains for me now to ask of improvements in the internal affairs of the Your Excellency to lay the foundation stone of Hospital, the majority of the Commissioners this building, whichy when cready, will add tonel conclude by saying that it has done excellent the numerous benevolent institutions of this us work in the past, and that, if the improvements progressive and unique Colony over the destinise they have recommended are adopted, it will be of which Your Excellency now presides, and, as on able in the future to continue its good with still spokesman of the Directorate, to cordially thank greater efficiency and with increased benefits to Your Excellency for the honour you have beanriv the indigent suffering Chinese, for whose wel-pleased to confer upon us by taking part in this © fare tha Hospital was established.”
afternoon's ceremony, and to express our sin- ́THOSE: TO "WHOM CREDIT-18 DUE.. chre appreciation of the consideration – which The Chinese characteristic - tenacity wifaded. Your Excellency, has invariably shown to the vo to by Your Excellency has in a large masure Chinese population of this Colony. (Applause.) been overcome to the extent of the adoption |
HIS EXULLLENGT LAYS THE STONK of those reforms categorically stated in the His EXOELLENOY thén formally laid the st reperis= of our1genini Visiting @megwom»{F}ay...finishing the spreading of the morter ireki
Mr. Ho. Tang, who acted as chairman, pre- sented Lady Blake with a bouquet of flowers, one being also handed to Miss Blake by Miss Ho
Kom Tong, the Chairman's niece.
MRPORO TÚNG ON THE HISTORY OF THE HOSPITAL,
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Mr. Ho TUNG Baid-Your Excellency, ladies and gentlemen, You have kindly condescended to be present here to-day to assist at a function which, it is hoped, will mark a distinct epoch in the history of the Tang Wa Hospital. The laying of the foundation stone of the proposed new building to meet the fast growing needs of the hospital on the other side of the road marks an event of no insignificant importance to those for whom the Tang Wa Hospital was primarily founded, With the completion of the building on this site will be seen the adop tion of the plan so felicitously suggested by Your Excellency for the better accommodation of women patients, since it is proposed to em brace within its walls wards for the treatment of midwifery cases and an operating room for the more general handling of surgical cases: Lest I should relegate to a later moment the expression of great indebtedness in which the Directors of the Hospital have been placed by the very liberal response accorded to their appeal for the funds of this institution, permit me now, "first of all, to publicly thank Your Excellency for that "hearty desire to assist" which was no sooner promised then fulfilled. For it is due to Your Excellency that the Chinese community have obtained this valu- able site from the Government free of cost: Nor are they less grateful to you for opening the subscription first with your generous donation!... An example so conspicuously set was sure" to be fruitful of good results. In thin the Directors have cause for much grati fortion. The community, regardless of race or“urbed, dame forward with their contribu... tions, with a libérality'i truly remarkable," and within three months no legs an amount thầu $80,000 has been subsoribed." "To all those who have soi generously subsoribed we say in the words of the Shi King "on you hence forth shall cease mingaibide;!!) Huvitege
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