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Annexe B.
THE CHINESE HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES.
1. The Chinese Hospitals and Chinese Dispensaries are institutions established by the Chinese for the benefit of the poor of Chinese race. Intended to supplement the Government Hospitals, they serve a very useful purpose not only in the matter of medical relief but also in that of health education.
2. An enormous and ever-increasing number of sick, too poor to pay a doctor's fee or to buy proper medicine, and unwilling or unable for one reason or another to attend at a Government Hospital, are successfully reached.
3. There are three general hospitals, one smallpox hospital, two maternity hospitals and nine public dispensaries. They are maintained by subscriptions from the public, by donations from the Chinese General Charities Fund and by direct grants from Government. They are controlled by Chinese Committees who work in close cooperation with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
4. In the three big hospitals, the patient can choose between Western and Chinese methods of treatment, but in the Maternity Hospitals and Dispensaries, Western Medicine only is practised. Government Lady Doctors hold gynaecological clinics in each of the Dispensaries once or twice a week.
5. Both Hospitals and Dispensaries are subject to inspection by the Government Medical Department. There are five officers of the Department whose duty it is to visit the various institutions and to give advice and assistance. These officers work in close touch with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
THE CHINESE HOSPITALS.
6. The Tung Wah Hospital, situated in the centre of the most thickly populated area in Victoria, was first occupied in 1873. The Tung Wah Smallpox Hospital was established in 1902. The Kwong Wah Hospital in Kowloon was built by public subscription in 1911 to meet the needs of the Kowloon peninsula. The Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, a branch of the Tung Wah, situated in an open space in the east of Victoria, was opened in November, 1929. The Government gave the sites and with grants of money assisted in the erection of the buildings.
7. In administrative control of the four hospitals is the Tung Wah Committee, a body of Chinese gentlemen elected annually.