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(d) The Po.Leung Kuk Permanent Board of Direction is also an
honorary institution financed by the Chinese community and has for its object the care of women and children. Many problems that would afford serious difficulty to a regular Government department are satisfactorily settled by this Board, which meets daily in the Po Leung Kuk premises to
consider cases sent for its consideration by the public
and by the Government. In every case the recommendations
of the Board are scrutinised by the Secretary for Chinese
Affairs before being finally adopted. The willing and
friendly co-operation of this Board with the Chinese
Secretariat is of great importance to the Government in
many ways and it is for the Secretary for Chinese Affairs,
who is ex officio chairman, to see that the desired
relation is maintained under unusually delicate conditions. The list of the Po Leung Kuk Committee appears on Page 59
of the Hong Kong Civil Service List for 1927.
(e) The Chinese Public Dispensaries Committee is also an
honorary and self-supporting body, whose purpose is to
accustom the Chinese
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especially the women and children
to western methods of medicine and hygiene, in order to
avoid alarm when action has to be taken by the Government
in times of epidemic disease. Eight outpatient dispensaries, managed by western-trained Chinese under European medical supervision, are maintained as well as two maternity hospitals, and very effective work has been done
by this institution without friction and to the great
advantage of the Colony in general. The Secretary for
Chinese Affairs is chairman of the Committee and is very
closely associated with all its doings. The list of the
Chinese Public Dispensaries Committee appears on Page 45
of