8.-Copyright in Works of the Fine Arts.
Ordinance No. 17 of 1901.
None were registered during the year.
9.-Certificates of Identity to Chinese Entering the United States of America.
Ordinance No. 3 of 1898.
Eight were issued to Chinese British subjects resident in Hongkong, 6 being for the United States and 2 for Hawaii.
10.-Tung Wah Hospital.
Ordinances No. 1 of 1870 and No. 9 of 1904.
(See Tables VII and XVIII.)
The names of the Directors of the Tung Wah Hospital elected on the 15th November, 1908, are:-
SIN TAK-FAN
LAU PUN-CHIU
UE PUN-NAM
WONG YIU-TONG
Merchant.
of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.
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Yat Cheung Bank.
Wo Fat Shop.
AU CHAK-MAN
Chiu Lung Tai Shop.
CHAN CHEUK-FAN
Tsun On & Co.
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WONG TAK-CHUN
Tak Cheung Shop.
UE YAT-UE
HUNG OK-LAU
YIU KU-YUEN
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CHUNG SIK-FAN
LO FUK-KI
LAU KING-MAN
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TSOI YIU-FUNG
LI KIU-PAT
CHAN TIT-UE
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Wo Tseung Fat Shop.
Merchant.
International Bank.
Wing Shing Shop.
Shang Cheung Fat Shop.
Sheung Yik Pawnshop.
G. Macbain.
Tak Lung Shop.
Ming U Tai Shop.
The balance brought forward at the end of the year is $68,532 as compared with $83,309 at the end of 1907.
The expenditure for the year is given as $145,874, an increase of $74,078 over 1907. This increase is mainly due to capital expenditure on new buildings $54,627. It also includes $3,411 expenditure on the repatriation of emigrants, an item which as explained above is not likely to recur. Nearly every item of expenditure shews an increase over 1907, though some increase was only to be expected owing to the increase in the number of patients, nearly 5 per cent., and to the increased number of coffins needed owing to the plague and typhoon. Towards the end of the year a change was made in the method of obtaining stores of Chinese medicines, a change, which will, it is hoped result in a considerable saving. The Government annual grant was raised to $8,000 from $6,000.
The capital expenditure alluded to in the preceding paragraph is on account of the new plague wards in course of construction. They will occupy the space covered by 10 high and crowded houses which abutted on the Tung Wah premises to the north. The new buildings will by letting in light and air enormously improve the hospital and the adjacent property. $5,000 has been subscribed from the Chinese Recreation Ground Fund towards the cost of this improvement.
To meet the outbreak of Small-pox at the beginning of the year a matshed hospital was opened to the west of Kennedy Town, and conducted under the mildest quarantine regulations compatible with safety. The total cost of construction was $982. The structure was blown down in the typhoon of July 27th, and has since been rebuilt on a smaller scale.
When Chinese are smitten with Small-pox their dread of being committed to the hulk Hygeia is very strong. This has again been shown by their readiness in subscribing towards a permanent small-pox hospital, to be erected on a site granted by the Government where the matshed now is. A subscription list was opened in the last month of the year, and by the end of the year a considerable sum had been realised.