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where elementary vernacular education is given either free or at a nominal charge to some 1900 children. Of these it must be admitted that two only, with 125 pupils in all, are schoole for girls: but schooling for girls was hardly thought of before the Revolution of 1911, and the over- swing of the pendulum, shewn in the growth of private schools (of which there are many) is watched with some suspicion by responsible Chinese. In nine years they have lost a great part of their centuries-old control of their own women kind, and fear to assist too much in the move- ment for the emancipation and independence of the new generation, to which they attribute at least some of the evils which now surround the problem. They have begun quietly, with an education not too strong for the mental digestion of the pupils: and will, I am confident, continue the movement with a view to restoring the lost equilibrium. I shall lose no opportunity of satisfying myself that the responsible community does not lose sight of this matter. Further in addition to the regular hospitals it main- tains 8 out-patient dispensaries under Chinese doctors trained in Western methods, which are primarily intended for the treatment of children: it maintains maternity wards' in three separate parts of the City, and is now about to erect a new modern maternity hospital of 50 beds in the most congested district of West Point, which it is hoped to develop ultimately into a training school for midwives. These efforts promise well as a good foundation for gradual reform in the treatment of children: while the Po Leung Kuk
and the Tung Wa Hospital do all that at present can be
expected in watching the interests of girls and women as
well. All these institutions are alive and command active
support from all the community: they are spontaneous growths, and for the present I have no suggestion to make
for their improvement. Enough Government supervision is
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