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KWONG WA HOSPITAL.
(Tables XIII and XIV).
53. The work of the Hospital again shewed an increase during 1919. In all 3,212 patients were admitted (as against 2,696 in 1918) of whom 1,864 or 58% (as against 48% in 1918 and 46% in 1917) came under European treatment, while 1,348 elected to be treated by Chinese methods.
54. The total number of out-patients treated was 35,392 as against 33,085 in 1918, and of these 25,000 elected to receive European treatment. This gives a percentage of 70.6 as against 65.3 in 1918 and 67.3 in 1917.
55. The total net expenditure of the Hospital for 1919 was $42,663 as against $32,595 in the previous Chinese year. Salaries and wages, food for staff and patients, and repairs and furniture all show increases; and the whole work of the Hospital has grown.
Further exact comparison with the previous year however is difficult as the change from the Chinese to the English year involves an overlap of a month and a half.
$20,000 of the Government grant of $25,000 to local Chinese Charities was allocated by the Committee to the Kwong Wa Hospital to make good the loss of revenue from the ferries: this in addition to the annual direct grant of $8,500. These payments have cleared the Hospital's debt to the Tung Wa Hospital, and left a balance of $1,989 on the year's working. The further $10,000 in hand in the credit with the Tung Wa Hospital was voted by the whole Community out of the surplus of the cheap sale of rice fund for the purpose of building a new pulmonary diseases ward.
CHINESE PUBLIC DISPENSARIES AND PLAGUE HOSPITALS.
(Tables XV to XX).
56. The total number of cases treated at the Dispensaries during the year was 124,586 compared with 107,406 in 1918. Of this total 68,632 were new, and 55,954 return cases.
57. The number of vaccinations performed (6,367) shows an increase on the figures (4,925) of 1918. The figures in 1917, the year of the small-pox epidemic, were 39,405.
58. The total expenditure on the Dispensaries was $36,806 as compared with $34,592 in 1918.
59. The revenue of the Dispensaries, excluding the balance of $64,173 from 1918 and a grant of $4,000 by Government, amounted to $38,278, as compared with $48,157 in 1918.
60. Of the two Kowloon Dispensaries at Hunghom and Shamshuipo the first shows an excess of expenditure over receipts of $450 and a decline in credit balance from $4,505 in 1918 to $4,055. The second shows a decline in its credit balance from $409 in 1918 to $208.