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The Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 19 wards. 2,644 in-patients and 17,759 out-patients were treated during 1910. 340 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 188 in 1909, and 279 in 1908. The Maternity Hospital contains 6 beds for Europeans, and 4 for Asiatics. 107 confinements occurred during the year. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 41 beds. During 1910, 344 patients were under treatment. Kennedy Town Hospital contains 26 beds. In 1910, 19 cases were treated, 9 being small-pox.
(b.) LUNATIC ASYLUM.
The Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separated, the European portion containing 8 beds in separate wards, and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 195 patients of all races were treated during 1910, and there were 9 deaths.
(c.) THE TUNG WAH AND OTHER CHINESE HOSPITALS.
This hospital, opened in 1872, is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives an annual grant of $8,000 from the Government. Only Chinese are treated in this institution. Various other services not appertaining to a hospital are performed by the institution, such as the free burial of the poor, the repatriation of destitutes, and the organisation of charitable relief in emergencies. Chinese as well as European methods of treatment are employed, in accordance with the wishes expressed by the patients or their friends. About half the number are now treated by Western methods. The hospital is managed by a committee of Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appointment being submitted to the Governor for confirmation. It is under the supervision of a visiting physician who is a member of the medical department, whilst a Chinese house surgeon, trained in Western medicine, is a member of the hospital staff.
The Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals are managed and controlled by the missionaries resident in Hong Kong, agents of the London Missionary Society. They consist of the Alice Memorial Hospital opened in 1887, the Nethersole Hospital opened in 1893, the Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital opened in 1904, and the Ho Miu Ling Hospital opened in 1906. The number of in-patients in 1910 was 1,253 and the expenditure $12,600. The number of labours in the Maternity Hospital was 244. Government makes a grant of $300 per annum to these hospitals.
To avoid the complete seclusion from friends and relatives which a removal of Chinese plague patients to the Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital entailed, three District Plague Hospitals are now maintained by the Chinese in various parts of the Colony and a fourth is being built. They are under the management of the Chinese Public Dispensaries Committee and receive a grant of $2,000 a year from the Government.
The erection of the new "Kwong Wa" hospital for Chinese, in the Kowloon Peninsula, is complete, all but the servants' quarters.
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