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The health of the staff and the workmen engaged during con- struction was good.
The Section was opened for Public Traffic on the 1st October and the fakings to the end of December have been $33,980.35.
The Expenditure against the Loan Account during the year was approximately $1,965.338.50, making a total to end of 1910 of $11,884,127.76.
VI-GOVERNMENT AND AIDED 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, and the Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital. There is an Observation Station capable of accommodating 1,500 persons in the event of an outbreak of infectious disease in a ship arriving in the Harbour.
The Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 19 wards. 2,014 in- patients and 17,759 out-patients were treated during 1910. 340 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 188 in 1909 and 279 in 1908. The Maternity Hospital contains 6 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 107 confinements occurred during the year. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 41 beds. During 1910, 344 patients were under treatment. Kennedy Town Hospital con- tains 26 beds. Ja 1910, 19 cases were treated, 9 being Small-pox.
(b) LUNATIC ASYLUM.
The Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separated, the European portion containing 8 heds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 195 patiouts of all races were treated during 1910 and there were 9 deaths.
(e.) THE TUNG WAR AND OTHER CHINESE HOSPITALS.
This hospital, opened in 1872, is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives an annual graat of $8,000 from the Government. Only Chinese are treated in this institution. Various other services not appertaining to a hospital are performed by the institution such as the free burial of the poor. the repatriation of destitutes, and the organisation of charitable relief in emergencies. Chinese as well as European methods of treatment are employed in accordance with the wishes expressed by the patients or their friends. About half the number are now treated by Western methods. The Hospital is managed by a Committee of Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appointment being sub- mitted to the Governor for confirmation. It is under the supervision of a visiting physician who is a member of the Medical Department, whilst a Chinese house surgeon trained in Western medicine is a member of the hospital staff.
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The Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals are managed and controlled by the missionaries resident in Hongkong, agents of the London Missionary Society. They consist of the Alice Memorial Hospital opened in 1887, the Nethersole Hospital opened in 1893, the Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital opened in 1904 and the Ho Miu Ling Hospital opened in 1906. The number of in-patients in 1910 was 1,253 and the expenditure $12,600. The number of labours in the Maternity Hospital was 244. The Government makes a grant of $300 per annum to these Hospitals.
To avoid the complete seclusion from friends and relatives which a removal of Chinese Plague patients to the Kennedy Town Infec- tious Diseases Hospital entailed, three District Plague Hospitals are now maintained by the Chinese in various parts of the Colony and a fourth is being built. They are under the management of the Chinese Public Dispensaries Committee and receive a grant of $2,000 a year from the Government.
The erection of the new Kwong Wa" hospital for Chinese in the Kowloon Peninsula is complete, all but the servants' quarters. It occupies a site having an area of 3 acres and as designed will ultimately provide accommodation for 210 patients. The existing buildings contain accommodation for 70 patients. The collection of subscriptions and the supervision of the building were undertaken by a special committee under the chairmanship of the Registrar General, but when completed the hospital will form part of the Tung Wah Hospital and be under the same management. This hospital will receive a grant of $8,500 per annum from the Government.
VIL-INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT,
Among institutions recognised and encouraged but not to any considerable extent supported by Government may be mentioned the Pó Leung Kuk, the Eyre Refuge, the Hongkong College of Medicine, the City Hall, and the Chinese Public Dispensaries.
The Pó Leung Kuk is a Chinese Society founded in 1878 for the suppression of kidnapping and traffic in human beings. It was incorporated in 1893 and is presided over by the Registrar General and not inore than nine directors nominated by the Governor. The actual management is entrusted to a committee elected annually by the members of the Society.
The Society's buildings have been declared a Refuge under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance and almost all women and girls detained by the Registrar General under that Ordinance are sent to the Pó Leung Kuk. During 1910 the number of persons admitted was 504 and at the close of the year 46 remained under the care of the Society. The inmates are under the immediate charge of a Chinese matron and instruction is given them by the matron and
a Chinese teacher in elementary subjects and in needlework.
The Eyre Diocesan Refuge is an institution under mission aus- pices founded for rescue work among the Chinese. It is now housed in the Belilios Reformatory and receives a small grant from the Government and also a contribution from the Pó Leung Kuk.
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