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$30,923 in 1917. Among the receipts appears a payment of $25,302 from the Tung Wa Hospital; if this and the $2,000 grant be subtracted from the receipts, the net income is shown to be $29,099, an amount less than the net expenditure by $3,633. The Hospital therefore is still financially unable to stand on its own feet. It was never anticipated that it would do so, until the whole district across the Harbour—a comparatively poor one—fulfilled its promise of development. This time is now appreciably nearer; meanwhile the Hospital must still depend on the Tung Wa Hospital and on special efforts. Its principal benefactor during the year was Mr. Chan Kang-yue, who raised a sum of $6,000 through theatrical entertainments which he organised and financed.
CHINESE PUBLIC DISPENSARIES AND PLAGUE HOSPITALS.
(Tables XV to XX.)
57. The total number of cases treated at the Dispensaries during the year was 107,406 compared with 104,004 in 1917. Of this total 58,535 were new and 48,871 return cases.
58. The number of vaccinations performed shows a very great decrease, 4,925 as against 39,405 in 1917, which was the year of the small-pox epidemic.
59. The total expenditure on the Dispensaries was $34,592 as compared with $30,190 in 1917. The only exceptional expense incurred during the year was the payment of a war bonus to certain rat-catchers to meet the increased cost of living.
60. The revenue of the Dispensaries, excluding the balance of $50,609 from 1917, amounted to $48,157 as against $40,566 in 1917 and thus exceeded the expenditure by $13,565.
61. Of the two Kowloon Peninsula Dispensaries at Hunghom and Shamshuipo, the first shows an excess of income over expenditure and an increase of the credit balance from $3,585 to $4,505—a satisfactory position principally due to the efforts of the Chairman Mr. Chan Pak-ping who has, it may be here mentioned, in hand a proposal to open a school under the control of the local Committee. The Shamshuipo Dispensary shows a decline of its credit balance from $1,306 to $409, due to the loss of subscriptions from the Ferry Service and the Market.
62. The number of dead and dying infants brought to the Dispensaries was 1,705 as compared with 1,660 in 1917.
63. The number of infants under five years brought in to be treated shows an increase, 12,811 being treated as against 12,257 in 1917, and 13,350 in 1916.
64. 1,510 corpses were removed to hospital or mortuary as against 1,422 in 1917. 858 (as against 644) applications were received for coffins and on 608 occasions (as against 276 in 1917) was attendance necessary at the cleansing of infected premises.