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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL.
The Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals are managed and controlled by the missionaries resident in Hong Kong, agents of the London Missionary Society, and 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 1913 was 1,684 and the expenditure $18,053.34. The number of labours in the Maternity Hospital was 394. The Government makes a grant of $300 per annum to these hospitals.
To avoid the complete seclusion from friends and relatives which removal of Chinese plague patients to the Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital entailed, four District Plague Hospitals are now maintained by the Chinese in various parts of the Colony. These hospitals are under the management of the Chinese Public Dispensaries Committee and receive a grant of $2,000 a year from the Government.
The new Kwong Wa Hospital for Chinese, in the Kowloon Peninsula, was opened on the 9th October, 1911. It occupies a site having an area of three acres and as designed will ultimately provide accommodation for 210 patients. The existing buildings contain 70 beds and 1,416 patients were accommodated during 1913. The collection of subscriptions and the supervision of the building were undertaken by a special committee under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese affairs. The hospital receives a grant of $8,500 per annum from the Government.
The Hong Kong University is an institution that arose from the joint enterprise of British and Chinese subscribers. It was founded with funds representing about equal proportions of Chinese and British money.
The idea of the University is to provide, close to China, education for Chinese similar to that given in the British Universities, but at a much cheaper cost; for if a Chinese goes abroad to be educated he has to pay, besides travelling expenses, some $2,000 per annum; whereas at Hong Kong the expenses of the University are $540 per annum for board and tuition, or, including extras, from $600 to $650.
The founders of the University took into consideration the fact that Chinese students being educated abroad have usually to make their own arrangements for board and lodging. Consequently sometimes they contract irregular habits. All students educated at the Hong Kong University are required to become boarders, and thus their whole lives are under supervision whilst they are there. Ample provision is made for indoor and outdoor recreation, and in this connection it is interesting to note that the Chinese residents of Hong Kong recently subscribed a large sum for levelling a new playing field, and that the work has just been completed.
The University is composed of three faculties: (1) Medical, which offers unexampled facilities for the practice of medicine. The anatomical laboratories were the gift of a Cantonese gentleman (Mr. Ng Li-hing). There is a large staff of instructors in medicine: