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# SECTION VI.
## HOSPITALS, INSTITUTES, ETC.
The Government Hospitals are:-the Government Civil Hospital, the Victoria Hospital, and the Kowloon Hospital. The Peak Hospital is an institution maintained by Government as a nursing home where patients can be treated by their own doctors.
## GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL.
The Government Civil Hospital which was built in 1874, and which occupies a site in the middle of the most populous area, is the largest Government hospital in the Colony. It has accommodation altogether for 212 beds, 100 of which have been placed under the control of the clinical professors of the Hong Kong University who are also in charge of the outpatients department. Attached to and adjacent to this institution are the Maternity Pavilion and the Mental Hospital.
Dr. T. W. Ware was the Government Medical Officer in charge during the year and he was assisted by Dr. G. H. Thomas and Dr. T. Z. Bau.
The number of inpatients, exclusive of those in the maternity block and Mental Hospital, was 5,108 of which 4,089 respectively 4,905, 4,009 and 986. Out of the total of 5,108, 1,385 were treated by the University staff and 3,723 by the Government Medical Officers.
The daily average number of inpatients was 178; that for the previous year was 175.
The nationality of the patients was:--
European Indian Chinese Other Asiatics Total 464 1,484 3,081 79 5,108The inpatients treated by the University staff numbered 1,385 made up as follows:--medical cases 687, surgical cases 552 and gynaecological cases 146.