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8. Originally intended for the accommodation and treatment of those Chinese whose fears and prejudices against Western Medicine prevented their applying for relief at the Government Hospitals, these hospitals at a later period introduced and encouraged scientific methods. As prejudice disappeared and confidence grew the demand for Western Medicine has increased until now the number of in-patients being treated by this method is almost double that which still pins its faith to Chinese medicine.
9. The activities of the Chinese Hospitals include:-
(a) The care of the sick and treatment by Western methods or Chinese methods according to the wishes of the patients.
(b) Maternity benefits and infant welfare by Western methods only.
(c) Vaccination.
(d) Health propaganda.
(e) Assistance to the destitute.
(f) The provision of coffins for and the burial of the dead.
10. Excellent work was done by the Chinese Hospitals and Dispensaries in the Inoculation Campaign against Cholera. Of a grand total of 218,351 inoculations given by twenty-seven institutions in the Colony, no less than 89,319 were given by the Tung Wah Hospitals and Chinese Dispensaries.
Cholera Inoculations at Chinese Hospitals and Dispensaries. Tung Wah Hospital 7,774 Tung Wah Eastern Hospital 9,717 Kwong Wah Hospital 6,605 Central Chinese Public Dispensary 4,498 Eastern 12,815 Western 4,506 Shaukiwan 6,865 Aberdeen 3,060 Harbour & Yaumati Public Dispensary 10,731 Shamshuipo 10,184 Hung Hom 5,477 Kowloon City 7,087 Total 89,319