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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL.
School were finished, and the Gunpowder Depôt, extension to Staff Quarters Government Civil Hospital, Taipo Quarters, and Bacteriological Institute approached completion. The works of reconstruction of gullies and extension of nullah training were continued, $10,000 being spent on the former and over $20,000 on the latter—the Albany Nullah being one of the watercourses dealt with.
The Taikoktsui Reclamation was finished. $150,000 was spent on further resumption of insanitary property in the vicinity of Mee Lun Lane. The system of 100-foot roads in Kowloon was extended; the section of Robinson Road, running north and south between the sea and the Yaumati Theatre, was finished, and also the branch to the westward (Sixth Street), and some progress was made with a further extension of this system near the Disinfecting Station, without expense to the Colony, as the spoil from this road excavation was used for private reclamation in front of the Pumping Station.
The excavation of the sites for the new Albany Filter Beds was completed, and the new Watchmen's House built.
The work on the Rider-Main system was continued, and Districts Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 were completed and brought under control.
The total amount expended on Public Works Extraordinary, exclusive of the Praya East Reclamation and Rider-Mains, was $1,775,138.58, and on works annually recurrent, $383,798.06.
VI.—GOVERNMENT 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, the Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital, and the hulk "Hygeia," used mainly for the treatment of small-pox.
The Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 19 wards. 2,704 in-patients and 14,976 out-patients were treated during the year 1905; 267 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 223 in 1904 and 346 in 1903. The Maternity Hospital contains six beds for Europeans and four for Asiatics. Sixty-four confinements occurred during the year with two deaths. The Victoria Hospital, opened in November, 1903, by Sir Henry Blake, is situated at the Peak, and contains 41 beds. During 1905, 212 patients were under treatment. Kennedy Town Hospital contains 26 beds. In 1905, 42 cases were treated, of which 33 were plague. On the "Hygeia" 50 cases were treated, of which 48 were small-pox.
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