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The amount subscribed for the proposed Yaumati hospital has reached $76,236 including interest. A site has been granted by the Government and has been levelled; and plans have been submitted by the architect. The estimates however went considerably beyond the means available, and at the end of the year the committee charged with the construction of the hospital was considering how best a compromise might be arrived at.
The typhoon of July 27th has been the subject of a separate report, and is further described in Part 19 below. The Tung Wah as usual did good service in burying the dead and distributing charity among the survivors.
The Tung Wah opened and administered a Flood Relief Fund in connection with the disastrous floods on the West and North Rivers, subscriptions to which were contributed not only locally but also from the Straits Settlements, the Dutch Colonies and many other places. Altogether the enormous sum of $427,929 was collected, of which on 22nd November $271,781 had been paid over to the Canton Committees, leaving a balance of $156,148 undistributed. The effect of the flood upon business is dealt with in Part 19.
11-Chinese Public Dispensaries.
(See Tables VIII to XIII.)
The three Dispensaries in Victoria (the Eastern, Central and Western), were early in the year put under the control of the Tung Wah Hospital, on the understanding that the hospital should be guided by the advice of the Public Dispensaries Committee, a body appointed for this object. The hospital withdrew from this arrangement towards the end of the year, and the Dispensary Committee is now in control. It is composed of the Registrar General as chairman, the Chinese Members of Council and of the Sanitary Board, the three chairmen of the annual committee of the Tung Wah Hospital and a number of the other leading Chinese. The accounts of the Victoria Dispensaries are kept by the Registrar General, who is also charged with the collection of subscriptions.
The three Dispensaries on the Kowloon side (Yaumati, Hunghom and Kowloon City), are more independent. They collect their own subscriptions, banking the money with the Registrar General, and keep their own accounts. They have separate committees, on which the Chinese Members of Council have seats.
The work of the Dispensaries is of a dual nature. On its educational side it is performed mainly by the committees with the assistance of a large number of "street committee men" (kai-fong chik-lei) who are men of importance in their own streets, and able to bring a good influence to bear on their neighbours. The purely medical and surgical work is done by the doctors with their staffs of clerks and stretcher coolies.
The work of the committee and street committee men in connection with the discouragement of "dumping" has been fully reported on in a separate report.
In other propagandist work the committee have been equally public spirited, especially in disseminating literature bearing on the connection between rats and plague. They have also distributed for the Sanitary Department some thousands of traps and have brought about a weekly death rate of rats of over 1,000 at no cost to the ratepayer. They also made wholesale poisoning of rats possible by assuring the co-operation of the mass of the population. It is no small advantage to have the natural spokesmen of the people as advocates of hygienic measures, and on the side of sanitation.
Details of the actual work, which is of a varied nature, are given in Table VIII. It may be added that the applications for Government midwives through the Dispensaries represent only a fraction of the cases undertaken by the midwives. The total number of new cases treated in the six Dispensaries is 24,353, an increase of over 30 per cent. as compared with last year.
12-District Plague Hospitals.
The temporary hospital at West Point was open throughout the Plague season, 69 cases being admitted, of whom 2 recovered. The treatment was of the Chinese kind, but the Western trained doctor of the dispensary examined each case on admission, to see that it was really a case of Plague.
At Hunghom 40 cases were admitted from the neighbourhood and Yaumati, of whom 9 were discharged cured. This hospital is a solidly built structure near the Dispensary.
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The amount subscribed for the proposed Yaumati hospital has reached $76,236 including interest. A site has been granted by the Government and has been levelled; and plans have been submitted by the architect. The estimates however went considerably beyond the means available, and at the end of the year the committee charged with the construction of the hospital was considering how best a compromise might be arrived at.
The typhoon of July 27th has been the subject of a separate report, and is further described in Part 19 below. The Tung Wah as usual did good service in burying the dead and distributing charity among the survivors.
The Tung Wah opened and administered a Flood Relief Fund in connection with the disastrous floods on the West and North Rivers, subscriptions to which were contributed not only locally but also from the Straits Settlements, the Dutch Colonies and many other places. Altogether the enormous sum of $427,929 was collected, of which on 22nd November $271.781 had been paid over to the Canton Committees, leaving a balance of $156,148 undistributed. The effect of the flood upon business is dealt with in Part 19.
11-Chinese Public Dispensaries.
(See Tables VIII to XIII.)
The three Dispensaries in Victoria (the Eastern. Central and Western), were early in the year put under the control of the Tung Wah Hospital, on the understanding that the hospital should be guided by the advice of the Public Dispensaries Committee, a body appointed for this object. The hospital withdrew from this arrangement towards the end of the year, and the Dispensary Committee is now in control. It is composed of the Re- gistrar General as chairman, the Chinese Members of Council and of the Sanitary Board, the three chairmen of the annual committee of the Tung Wah Hospital and a number of the other leading Chinese. The accounts of the Victoria Dispensaries are kept by the Registrar General, who is also charged with the collection of subscriptions.
The three Dispensaries on the Kowloon side (Yaumati, Hunghom and Kowloon City), are more independent. They collect their own subscriptions, banking the money with the Registrar General, and keep their own accounts. They have separate committees, on which the Chinese Members of Council have seats.
The work of the Dispensaries is of a dual nature. On its educational side it is per- formed mainly by the committees with the assistance of a large number of "street com- mittee men" (kai-fong chik-lei) who are men of importance in their own streets, and able to bring a good influence to bear on their neighbours. The purely medical and surgical work is done by the doctors with their staffs of clerks and stretcher coolies.
The work of the committee and street committee men in connection with the dis- couragement of "dumping" has been fully reported on in a separate report.
In other propagandist work the committee have been equally public spirited, especially in disseminating literature bearing on the connection between rats and plague. They have also distributed for the Sanitary Department some thousan is of traps and have brought about a weekly death rate of rats of over 1,000 at no cost to the ratepayer. They also made wholesale poisoning of rats possible by assuring the co-operation of the mass of the popula- tion. It is no small advantage to have the natural spokesmen of the people as advocates of hygienic measures, and on the side of sanitation.
Details of the actual work, which is of a varied nature, are given in Table VIII. It may be added that the applications for Government midwives through the Dispensaries represent only a fraction of the cases undertaken by the midwives. The total number of new cases treated in the six Dispensaries is 24,353, un increase of over 30 per cent. as com- pared with last year.
12-District Plague Hospitals.
The temporary hospital at West Point was open throughout the Plague season, 69 cases being admitte i, of whoin 2 recovered. The treatment was of the Chinese kind, but the Western trained doctor of the dispensary examined each case on admission, to see that it was really a case of Plague.
At Hunghom 40 cases were admitted from the neighourhood and Yaumati, of whom 9 were discharged cured. This hospital is a solidly built structure near the Dispensary.
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