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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL.
The education given in the three other named institutions is very similar. The number of scholars attending these schools for the year is as follows:-
Diocesan School
252
St. Joseph's College School
336
Victoria English (boys)
278
(girls)
49
It should here be mentioned that girls educated at the Belilios Public School also go in for the Oxford Local Examinations including the senior division.
V.-GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS.
A.-Hospitals:
The Government hospitals consist of the Civil Hospital, to which is attached an isolated lying-in hospital; Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital, and the Hospital hulk "Hygeia.”
The Civil Hospital contains 124 beds in 18 wards. Eight beds are reserved for first and second class paying patients; 38 for Europeans of all nationalities; 54 for Chinese, Japanese, and Indians, and 16 for females of all nationalities.
The Lying-in Hospital contains six beds for Europeans and four for Asiatics.
Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital has 28 beds in the main building and 50 beds in mat-shed annexures. The "Hygeia" has accommodation for 12 European patients and 100 Asiatics.
Two thousand seven hundred and thirty-four in-patients and over 13,000 out-patients were treated at the Government Civil Hospital in 1899. The nursing staff consists of a matron and trained nurses obtained from England.
The Tung Wa Hospital is supported by charitable contributions of the Chinese community and by an endowment from the Government. All the land on which it stands was granted by the Government.
It contains 170 beds, for Chinese patients only; 2,542 in-patients and 90,081 out-patients were treated at this hospital during the year, and 2,261 persons were vaccinated.
The hospital is under the daily supervision of a European member of the Government Medical Staff. The Resident Surgeon is a Chinese qualified in Western medical science.