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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 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 on board a ship arriving in Harbour.
The Civil Hospital contains 166 beds in 20 wards. 3,926 in- patients and 22,446 out-patients were treated during 1919 as against 218 cases of malarial fever 3,677 and 14,480 respectively in 1918. were admitted as against 211 in 1918 and 361 in 1917. The total cases of malaria for all Government Hospitals and the Tung Wa Hospital shows an increase of 246 cases as compared with the year 1918. The Maternity Hospital contains 12 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 46 confinements occurred during the year as against 377 in 1918. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 41 beds. and during 1919, 206 patients were under treatment there. At Kennedy Town Hospital, which contains 26 beds, 54 cases were treated in 1919, all being infectious.
(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. 207 patients of all races were treated during 1919 and there were 8 deaths.
(C.) THE TUNG WA AND OTHER CHINESE HOSPITALS. The Tung Wa Hospital, opened in 1872, is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of the Chinese, but receives an annuai 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 organsition of charitable reliefy 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 gentle men 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 7,002 patients were accommodated during 1919.
The Tung Wa also maintain a branch hospital for small-pox cases (Chinese only) at Kennedy Town. It contains 58 beds and during 1919, 4 cases were treated.
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 1919 was
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1,395 and the expenditure $27,570-42.
The number of labours in the Maternity Hospital was 403. 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 Dispensaties Committee.
The new Kwong Wa Hospital for Chinese in the Kowloon Peninsula was opened on the 9th October, 1911. It occupies a site having an area of three acres and provides accommodation for 210 patients. The existing buildings contain 70 beds and 3,313 patients were accommodated during 1919. The collection of subscriptions and the supervision of the building were undertaken by a special committee under the chairmanship 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 also an Aided Institution.
VII.-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 stands on a commanding site of nearly three acres at Mount Kellet in the Hill District. An account of this hospital will be found in the report for 1917.
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 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 Secretary for Chinese Affairs and not more 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 Secretary for Chinese Affairs under that Ordinance are sent to the Pó Leung Kuk. During 1919 the number of persons admitted was 476 and at the close of year 62 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 auspices, founded for rescue work among the Chinese. It was housed in the Belilios Reformatory up to the outbreak of war, but the work is at present carried on at Kowloon City. A small grant is made by the Government.
The City Hall receives an annual grant of $1,200 from Government. 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 tending library, to which new volumes are
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