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KWONG WA HOSPITAL.
(Table XII).
20. The following gentlemen served on the Committee for 1929:
Li Keng Po,
Ho Sing Chau,
Leung Shau Yu, Wu Foon,
Wong Iu Nan,
Kwok Tam Wan,
Wong Tat Wing,
Hung Iu To,
Tsang Yung,
Ng Keng Yu,
Chan Kam Chuen, Lui Wai Shun.
20. (a) The number of in-patients admitted during the year was 8,810 of whom 6,915 elected to receive Western treatment and 1,895 Native treatment. The number of out-patients was 135,528, 94,067 under Native and 41,191 under Western treatment.
21. The new maternity block with accommodation for 55 patients was completed during the year at a cost of $56,305.30 and was formally opened on September 28, 1929.
22. Statement of accounts and other reports furnished by the Committee of the Tung Wa Hospital are published for general information (Tables VIII to X(E)). Full details of the income and expenditure of the Tung Wa Hospital and Kwong Wa Hospital are to be found in the annual volumes published in Chinese by the two committees. Further information regarding the work of the hospitals will be found in the report of the Medical Department.
23. The resignation of Dr. E. W. Kirk from the post of Visiting Medical Officer took place at the end of the year. Dr. Kirk accepted this appointment in June 1927 and his tenure of office covered a period of considerable expansion and progress in the work of the two hospitals. In matters of administration and especially in connection with the equipment and organisation of the new branch hospital, his advice and assistance has proved of inestimable value to successive Boards of Directors and the news of his resignation was received with general regret.
TSAN YUK MATERNITY HOSPITAL.
(Table XIII).
WAN TSAI MATERNITY HOSPITAL,
24. An account of the working of these hospitals will be found in the report of the Medical Department,