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VI.--GOVERNMENT AND AIDED INSTITUTIONS.
(a)-HOSPITALS,
Government Hospitals consist of the Civil Hospital, to which is attached an isolated Maternity Hospital, the Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, and the Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital.
The Civil Hospital contains 198 beds in 23 wards. 5,774 in-patients and 30,889 out-patients were treated during 1925 as against 6,106 and 31,347 respectively in 1924. 1,140 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 1,020 in 1924 and 647 in 1923. The total cases of malaria for all Government Hospitals and the Tung Wa Hospital shows an increase of 40 cases as compared with the year 1924. The Maternity Hospital contains 9 beds for Europeans, plus 3 extra beds, and 8 for Asiatics. 668 confinements occurred during the year as against 789 in 1924. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 41 beds, and during 1925, 320 patients were under treatment there. At Kennedy Town Hospital, which contains 26 beds, 12 cases were treated in 1925, being infectious.
(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 14 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 308 patients of all races were treated during 1925 and there were 9 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, the maintenance of free vernacular schools, 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. Over 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 two Chinese house surgeons, trained in Western medicine, are members of the hospital staff. There are 450 beds in the buildings, and 9,133 patients were accommodated during 1925.