No530.
RECEIVED
'14 JAN 1930
COL. OFFICE
My Lord,
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 13th December, 1929.
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With reference to my despatch No.453 of
C.2242 November 1st, 1926, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship
that the Tung Wa Eastern Hospital was formally opened by me
on November 27th last. This building, which represents only
the first stage in a more ambitious scheme, was completed
and equipped at a cost of nearly $320,000 of which some
$300,000 were contributed by the Chinese community. Both in
design and workmanship it is a credit to the promoters of
the scheme and the new hospital, besides providing much
needed facilities for medical attention in a quarter of the
city hitherto unprovided with them, should assist in no small
degree in relieving the existing institutions whose capacity
is already overtaxed.
Anad Vel.
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The cost of running the hospital, as estimated
by the Tung Wa Hospital Committee with the assistance and
advice of officers of the Medical Department, is likely to
amount to a sum of about $90,000 per annum. To meet this
expenditure the Directors have in hand a balance of
approximately $140,000; and it is hoped that, with the stimulus afforded by the opening of the hospital, the effort
now to be made to collect further subscriptions to provide
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD PASSFIELD,
&c.,
&c.,
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