1887-1903
HONG KONG, 1903.
(C.) THE TUNG WA HOSPITAL.
This hospital is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives an annual grant of $6,000 from the Government. A new wing was opened by Sir Henry Blake in 1903. Only Chinese are treated in this institution, which takes the place of a poor-house and hospital for Chinese sick and destitute. Chinese as well as European methods of treatment are employed in accordance with the wishes expressed by the patients or their friends. The hospital is managed by a Committee of Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appointment being submitted to the Governor for confirmation.
OTHER GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS.
The prison, observatory, post office, educational establishments and other Government institutions are dealt with under separate heads.
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VII.—INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT.
Among institutions recognised and encouraged but not to any considerable extent supported by Government may be mentioned the Po Leung Kuk, the College of Medicine for Chinese, and the City Hall. The Po Leung Kuk is an institution presided over by the Registrar-General and an annually-elected Committee of 12 Chinese gentlemen, for the protection of women and children. The inmates of the Home receive daily instruction in elementary subjects and are allowed to earn pocket-money by needle-work. During 1903 a total of 826 persons were admitted, of whom 632 were women, 134 young girls, and 60 small boys. Of these, 360 were restored to their parents or sent to charitable institutions in China, 24 were sent to missionary schools and convents; 22 were married, 15 adopted, and 409 allowed to leave. The Home is medically attended by one of the Colonial Surgeons.
The Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese was founded in 1887, for the purpose of teaching surgery, medicine, and obstetrics to Chinese. The government of the college is vested in the Court, of which the Rector of the College, who has always been a Government official, is President. Seventy-eight students have been enrolled up to the end of 1903, and of these 19 have become qualified licentiates and have obtained various posts under Government and elsewhere. The institution is of great value in spreading a knowledge of Western medical science among the Chinese; and in addition to the employment of certain
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