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beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 261 confinements occurred during the year as against 213 in 1913. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 41 beds, and during 1914, 158 patients were under treatment there. At Kennedy Town Hospital, which contains 26 beds, 8 cases were treated in 1914, all 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. 187 patients of all races were treated during 1914 and there were 15 deaths.
(c.) THE TUNG WA AND OTHER CHINESE HOSPITALS.
The Tung Wa 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. There are 323 beds in the buildings and 4,683 patients were accommodated during 1914.
The Tung Wa also maintain a branch hospital for small-pox cases (Chinese only) at Kennedy Town. It contains 58 beds and during 1914, 17 cases were treated.
The Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals are managed and controlled by the missionaries resident in Hongkong, 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 1914 was 1,330 and the expenditure $17,938.65. The number of labours in the Maternity Hospital was 350. 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