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Annexe B.
THE CHINESE HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES.
The Chinese Hospitals and Dispensaries are institutions established by the Chinese, in some instances over seventy years ago, for the benefit of the sick poor of Chinese nationality.
2. There are three general hospitals, each with a maternity department, one maternity hospital, and nine public dispensaries.
3. They are maintained by subscriptions from the public, by donations from the Chinese General Charities Fund, and by direct grants from Government. The Government grants have been substantially increased in recent years. The history of their foundation has appeared in earlier reports.
4. In control of the Tung Wah Hospital Corporation is the Board of Directors, a body of Chinese gentlemen elected each year by the subscribers. A medical Committee has been appointed consisting of the three Principal Directors, two members of the Advisory Board, the Visiting Medical Officer and the three Superintendents of the Hospitals, under the Chairmanship of the Director of Medical Services, to act as the executive authority in all matters relating to the Medical administration of the Hospitals.
5. The Tung Wah Hospital Corporation serves many purposes, and has wide ramifications extending into many departments of charitable work. Its activities include:
(1) Accommodation and treatment by Western or herbal medicine of the sick poor.
(2) The care and provision for the senile and indigent.
(3) Maternity and child welfare service for the poor.
(4) Free vaccination against smallpox and inoculation against cholera.
(5) Provision of coffins and burial of the dead.
(6) Training schools for nurses and midwives.
THE WANCHAI OR EASTERN MATERNITY HOSPITAL.
This hospital is run in conjunction with the Eastern Dispensary. It is in charge of a Western-trained Chinese doctor and continues to provide most satisfactory and efficient service for this densely populated district.
The total number of beds is 31, and the number of admissions 1,244. There were three maternal deaths during the year.
THE CHINESE PUBLIC DISPENSARIES.
The Chinese Public Dispensaries commenced their work in 1904 and full description of their activities appears in the Report for 1938.