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was 1299 and the expenditure $16,000. The number of labours in the Maternity Hospital was 249. The Government makes a grant of $300 per annum to these Hospitals.
To avoid the complete seclusion from friends and relatives, which removal of Chinese plague patients to the Kennedy Town Infec- tions Diseases Hospital entailed, four District Plague Hospitals are now maintained by the Chinese in various parts of the Colony. These hospitals are under the management of the Chinese Public Dispensaries Commitice, and receive a grant of £2,000 a year from the Government.
The new Kwong Wa Hospital for Chinese in the Kowloon Peninsula was opened on the 9th October. Itogenpies a site having an area of 3 acres and as designed will ultimately provide accom- modation for 210 patients. The existing buildings coutain 70 beds and 169 patients were accommodated during 1911. The collection of subscriptions and the supervision of the building were under- waken by a special committee under the chairmanship of the Registrar General, but when completed the hospital will form part of the Tung Wa Hospital and be under the same management. The hospital will receive a grant of $8,500 per annum from the Govern-
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VIL--INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT.
Anong 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 1899 and is presided over by the Registrar General and not more than nine directors nominated by the Governor. Tho 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 Ordi- nance, and almost all women and girls detained by the Registrar General under that Ordinance are sent to the Pó Leung Kuk, During 1911 the number of persons admitted was 514, and at the close of the year 72 remained under the care of the Society. The inmates are under the immediate charge of a Chinese ruatron, and instruction is given then 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 resene work among the Chinese. It is now housed in the Belilios Reformatory and receives a small grant from the Government as well as a contribution from the Pó Leung Kuk.
The Hongkong College of Medicine was founded in 1887. The governsent of the College is veste: in the Court, of which the Retry of the College, who has always been a Clovernment official, is
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President. The lecturers, who are Government officials or private medical practitioners, onch receive a small honorarium, the fands being derived from the fees of the students, a Governinent grant-in- aid of $2,500), and certain legacies and bequests. The minimum course of study is five years, and the preliminary examination has been accepted by the General Medical Council of Great Britain. 195 students had been enrolled up to last December, and of these 48 have become qualified licentiates. Most of the licen- tintes have settled in the Colony, and are exerting a most nacful influence in the direction of displacing native medical methods and popularising Western medical and sanitary knowledge, while a considerable number are employed as resident surgeons in the hospitals for Chinese and as inedical officers in charge of the Public Dispensaries. The work of the College has thus far been carried on in lecture-rooms and laboratories made available in various hospitals, etc., in different parts of the City. When the Hongkong University is open, the College will be merged into its Faculty of Medicine.
The City Hall receives an annual grant of $1,200 from Govern mont. It contains a theatre, some large rooms which are used for balls, meetings, concerts, etc., a museum in which are some very fair specimens, and a large reference and lending library, to which new volumes are added from time to time, as fands will allow. The building was erected in 1806-9 by subscription.
Small grants are also given to the Italian Convent ($1,280), the French Convent, (both of which take in and tend abandoned or sick infants), the West Point Orphanage, the Seamen's Hospital, and other charitable institutions.
The Chinese Public Dispensaries are institutions maintained in order to provide the Chinese with the services of doctors, whose certificates will be accepted by the Registrar of Deaths, and with the services of interpreters, who can assist the inmates of houses, where a case of infectious disease has occurred. Coolies are engaged and ambulances and dead vans provided in order to remove cases of in- fections disease to the Infectious Diseases Hospital and dead bodies to the Mortuary. The Dispensaries receive sick infants and send them to one or other of the Convents and arrange for the burial of dead infants. Free advice and medicine are given and patients are attended at their houses. There are eight Dispensaries in existence including one for the boat population on a hulk in Causeway Bay. The total cost of maintenance, which is defrayed by voluntary subscription, was 833,434. The Dispensaries are conducted by committees under the chairmanship of the Registrar General.
VIII-CRIMINAL AND POLICE.
The total of all cases reported to the Police was 9,289 being a decrease of 500 or 5% as compared with 1910. There was in 1911 a decrease in serious offences of 25 or 0'69% as compared with the previous year.
The number of serious offences reported was 167 over the average of the quinquennial period commencing with the
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