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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL,
The revenue derived from local traffic amounted to $129,094.83, or $2,286.59 less than 1914, and the earnings of through and joint sectional traffic were $207,622.20 or $18,114.41 below the previous year; this was mainly due to the decrease of 47,153 in the number of passengers carried as compared with 1914, which was an abnormal year owing to the depreciated Chinese Government notes being for some time accepted at face value by the Railway (Chinese Section). The Fanling Branch earnings amounted to $7,052.05, or $438.24 less than last year.
The excess of earnings over expenditure for 1915 was $46,503.11.
1914 1915 Passengers booked by Stations in British Territory to Stations in China 277,512 271,382 Passengers booked by Stations in China to Stations in British Territory 353,722 326,839 Passengers travelling on the British Section, Main Line 245,527 257,650 Passengers travelling on the British Section, Fanling Branch 48,997 47,928V.-GOVERNMENT AND AIDED 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, and the Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital. There is an Observation Station capable of accommodating 1,500 persons in the event of an outbreak of infectious disease on board a ship arriving in the Harbour.
The Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 19 wards. 3,085 in-patients and 14,499 out-patients were treated during 1915 as against 2,742 and 13,828, respectively, in 1914. 384 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 324 in 1914 and 254 in 1913; but the total cases of malaria for all Government Hospitals and the Tung Wa Hospital shows an increase of 356 cases as compared with the year 1914. The Maternity Hospital contains 12 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. Confinements occurred during the year as against 261 in 1914. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 41 beds, and during 1915, 158 patients were under treatment there. At Kennedy Town Hospital, which contains 26 beds, 5 cases were treated in 1915, all being smallpox.
(b)-LUNATIC ASYLUM.
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The Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separated, the European portion containing 3 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 201 patients of all races were treated during 1915 and there were 4 deaths.