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Ho Miu Ling Hospital opened in 1906. The number of in-patients in 1915 was 1,059 and the expenditure $15,787.90. The number of labours in the Maternity Hospital was 428. 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 3 acres and provides accommodation for 210 patients. The existing buildings contain 70 beds and 1,904 patients were accommodated during 1915. 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.
As will be noticed from the remarks made under the heading Education the Hongkong University is an Aided Institution.
VII—INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT.
One of the most important institutions in the Colony not supported by the Government is the Matilda Hospital, which stands on a commanding site of nearly three acres at Mount Kellet in the Hill District. It consists of a main building containing six wards with 26 beds, quarters for four nurses, a house for the Medical Officer in charge and an operation block. A Maternity Ward, connected by a covered way with the main building, is in course of erection. The total cost of the buildings and their equipment has been more than $600,000. The hospital was erected in pursuance of the directions of the late Mr. Granville Sharp, who died on the 16th August, 1899, and who by his will gave the residue of his estate, amounting to more than $2,000,000, in trust "for the erection and "maintenance of a Hospital at Mount Kellet in this Colony to the "Glory of God, and the good of men; in loving memory of his saint-ed Wife Matilda Lincolne, the same to be called "Matilda Hospital".
The management of the hospital is vested in a Governing Body consisting of:—
The Trustees for the time being of the will of the Testator.
The Bishop of the Diocese.
The Chaplain of St. John's Cathedral.