17
Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appointment being submitted to the Governor for confirmation, and is under the supervision of a visiting physician who is a member of the Medical Department, whilst a Chinese house surgeon trained in medicine is a member of the hospital staff.
The Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals are managed and controlled by the missionaries resident in Hongkong, 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 1909 was 1,201 and the expenditure $12,600. The number of labours in the Maternity Hospital was 198. The 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.
Work on the hospital for Chinese in the Kowloon Peninsula has commenced and at the close of the year good progress had been made with the building. The hospital occupies a site having an area of 3 acres and as designed will ultimately provide accommodation for 210 patients. The buildings in course of erection will contain 70 beds. The collection of subscriptions and the supervision of the building were undertaken by a special committee under the chairmanship of the Registrar General, but when completed the hospital will form part of the Tung Wah Hospital and be under the same management. This hospital will when opened receive a grant of $8,500 per annum from the Government.
VII—INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT.
Among institutions recognised and encouraged but not to any considerable extent supported by Government may be mentioned the Pó Leung Kuk, the Hongkong College of Medicine, and the City Hall; and the Chinese Public Dispensaries which receive no pecuniary assistance from Government.
The Pó Leung is a Chinese Society founded in 1878 for the suppression of kidnapping and traffic in human beings. It was incorporated in 1893 and is presided over by the Registrar General and not more than nine directors nominated by the Governor. The actual management is entrusted to a committee elected annually by the members of the Society.
The Society's buildings have been declared a Refuge under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance and almost all persons detained by the Registrar General under that Ordinance are sent to the Pó Leung Kuk. During 1909 the number of persons admitted was 515 and at the close of the year 66 remained under the care of the