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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 thie Keunedy Town Infections Dis- enses Hospital. There is an Observation Station capable of accom modating 1,500 persons in the event of an outbreak of infections disease on board a ship arriving in the Harbour.
The Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 19 wards. 3,058 in- patients and 12,620 out-patients were treated during 1916 as against 3,085 and 14,199 respectively in 1915, 360 cases of malarial fever were admitted us against 384 in 1915 and 324 in 1914. But the total cases of malaria for all Government Hospitals and the Tung Wu Hospital shows an increase of 684 cases us compared with the year 1915. The Maternity Hospital contains 12 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 259 confinements occurred during the year as against 212 in 1915. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 41 beils, and during 1956, 201 patients were under treatment there. At Kemedy Town Hospital, which contains 26 beds, 30 cases were treated in 1916, all being statall-pos.
(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 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 237 patients of all races were treated during 1916 and there were & deaths.
(c)-Tas TuxG WA AND OTHER CHINESE HOSPITALS. The Tung Wa Hospital, opened in 1872, is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives an annual grant 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 submitted to the Governor for confirmation. It is under the supervision of a visiting physician, who is a member of the Medical Department, whilst two Chinese house surgeons, trained in Western medicine, are members of the hospital staff. There are 323 beds in the buildings and 5,480 patients were accommodated daring 1916.
The Tung Wa also maintain a branch hospital for small-pox cases (Chinese only) at Kennedy Town. It contains 58 beds and during 1916, 171 cases were treated.
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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, and 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 1916 was 1,731 and the expenditure $14,901.52. The number of labours in the Maternity Hospital was 550. 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 Infectious 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 Committee and receive a grant of $2,000 a year from the Gaernment.
The new Kwong Wa Hospital for Chinese in the Kowloon Peninsula was opened on the 9th October, 1911. It occupies a
thui site having an area of acres and provides accommodation for 210 patients. The existing buildings contain 70 beds and 2,490 The collection of patients were accommodated daring 1916. subscriptions and the supervision of the building were undertaken by a special committee under the clairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. The hospital receives a grant of $8,500 per annum from the Government,
As will be noticed from the remarks made under the heading Education, the Hongkong University is an fidel Fastitution.
VIL INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT. One of the most important institutions in the Colony not sup- ported by the Government is the Matilda Hospital, which standa on a commanding site of nearly three acres at Mount Kellet in the Hill District. It consists of a main building containing six wards with 26 beds, quarters for four nurses, a house for the Medical Officer in charge, and an operation block. A Maternity Ward is connected by a covered way with the main building and was complet- ed during 1916. The total cost of the buildings and their equipment has been more than $600,000. The hospital was erected in pursu- ance of the directions of the late Mr. Granville Sharp, who died on the 16th August, 1899, and who by his will gave the residue of his estate, amounting to more than $2,000,000, in trust "for the erec- *tion and maintenance of a Hospital at Mount Kellet in this Colony to the Glory of God, and the good of men; in loying memory of his sainted Wife Matilda Lincolne, the same to be "called "Matilda Hospital “.
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