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In October the promoters of the Kwong Wah Hospital together with a number of the leading Chinese residents of the Kowloon Peninsula presented a petition praying for a grant of land on which to build a small-pox hospital in Kowloon.

# CHINESE PUBLIC DISPENSARIES AND DISTRICT PLAGUE HOSPITALS

(Tables XIV to XVIII.)

The dispensaries continue to be conducted on the lines described in Mr. Irving's report of the 26th February last. The three dispensaries in Victoria and the Harbour Dispensary are managed by a Committee consisting of the Registrar General as Chairman, the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, C.M.G., Vice-Chairman, and seventeen other members. The constitution and general objects of the Association have to receive the concurrence and sanction of the Government, and are described in a minute dated the 20th October, 1909. The three dispensaries at Yaumati, Hunghom and Kowloon City are managed by separate Committees elected by the inhabitants, and in his work of guiding and controlling them the Registrar General is assisted by the two Chinese Members of Council and the two Chinese Members of the Sanitary Board. To enable the Registrar General to keep in close touch with the Chinese in matters relating to sanitation, Street Committees have been appointed by the Government and are consulted on matters of importance and encouraged to ask advice. Attached to each dispensary in Victoria are a licentiate of the Hong-kong College of Medicine, a clerk with a knowledge of English and coolies with ambulances and dead-vans to remove patients and dead bodies. Two lecturers are maintained whose duty it is to preach against "dumping" of bodies in the streets, to point out the benefits to be derived from the dispensaries and to explain the object of the Sanitary laws; handbills are issued in profusion whenever occasion demands and photographs are taken of bodies found in the streets and are posted up in the neighbourhood, and enquiries are made in each case from the Street Committee. There is a District Plague Hospital attached to the West Point Dispensary in Victoria, another in Kowloon City and a third at Hunghom. A fourth hospital is being built at Wanchai. The number of rats caught during the year in Victoria was 59,914, and in the Kowloon Peninsula where rat-catchers have been engaged by the dispensaries and paid by the Sanitary Department the number was 15,751.

In August, a largely attended meeting of members of the boat-population and of launch-owners, merchants, shop-keepers and others closely connected with the floating population was held, and it was resolved to open a harbour dispensary and to raise a fund for the purpose. A committee of seventeen was elected corresponding to the existing Street Committees, and a hulk was purchased, fitted up as a dispensary, and with the consent of the Harbour Master, moored in Causeway Bay. The dispensary was opened on the 4th October and 244 new cases were attended up to the close of the year.

Hitherto the Hunghom Dispensary has occupied leased premises, but a site has now been granted by the Government adjacent to the Kunyam Temple, plans of a suitable building have been designed, and a sufficient sum promised in subscriptions to defray the cost.

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C 8 In October the promoters of the Kwong Wah Hospital together with a number of the leading Chinese residents of the Kowloon Peninsula presented a petition praying for a grant of land on which to build a small-pox hospital in Kowloon. # CHINESE PUBLIC DISPENSARIES AND DISTRICT PLAGUE HOSPITALS (Tables XIV to XVIII.) The dispensaries continue to be conducted on the lines described in Mr. Irving's report of the 26th February last. The three dispensaries in Victoria and the Harbour Dispensary are managed by a Committee consisting of the Registrar General as Chairman, the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, C.M.G., Vice-Chairman, and seventeen other members. The constitution and general objects of the Association have to receive the concurrence and sanction of the Government, and are described in a minute dated the 20th October, 1909. The three dispensaries at Yaumati, Hunghom and Kowloon City are managed by separate Committees elected by the inhabitants, and in his work of guiding and controlling them the Registrar General is assisted by the two Chinese Members of Council and the two Chinese Members of the Sanitary Board. To enable the Registrar General to keep in close touch with the Chinese in matters relating to sanitation, Street Committees have been appointed by the Government and are consulted on matters of importance and encouraged to ask advice. Attached to each dispensary in Victoria are a licentiate of the Hong-kong College of Medicine, a clerk with a knowledge of English and coolies with ambulances and dead-vans to remove patients and dead bodies. Two lecturers are maintained whose duty it is to preach against "dumping" of bodies in the streets, to point out the benefits to be derived from the dispensaries and to explain the object of the Sanitary laws; handbills are issued in profusion whenever occasion demands and photographs are taken of bodies found in the streets and are posted up in the neighbourhood, and enquiries are made in each case from the Street Committee. There is a District Plague Hospital attached to the West Point Dispensary in Victoria, another in Kowloon City and a third at Hunghom. A fourth hospital is being built at Wanchai. The number of rats caught during the year in Victoria was 59,914, and in the Kowloon Peninsula where rat-catchers have been engaged by the dispensaries and paid by the Sanitary Department the number was 15,751. In August, a largely attended meeting of members of the boat-population and of launch-owners, merchants, shop-keepers and others closely connected with the floating population was held, and it was resolved to open a harbour dispensary and to raise a fund for the purpose. A committee of seventeen was elected corresponding to the existing Street Committees, and a hulk was purchased, fitted up as a dispensary, and with the consent of the Harbour Master, moored in Causeway Bay. The dispensary was opened on the 4th October and 244 new cases were attended up to the close of the year. Hitherto the Hunghom Dispensary has occupied leased premises, but a site has now been granted by the Government adjacent to the Kunyam Temple, plans of a suitable building have been designed, and a sufficient sum promised in subscriptions to defray the cost.

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C 8 In October the promoters of the Kwong Wah Hospital fogether with a number of the leading Chinese residents of the Kowloon Peninsula presented a petition praying for a grant of land on which to build a small-pox hospital in Kowloon. CHINESE PUBLIC DISPENSARIES AND DISTRICT PLAGUE HOSPITALS. (Tables XIV to XVIII.) The dispensaries continue to be conducted on the lines described in Mr. Irving's report of the 26th February last. The three dispens- aries in Victoria and the Harbour Dispensary are managed by a Committee consisting of the Registrar General as Chairman, the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, c.M.G., Vice-Chairman, and seventeen other members. The constitution and general objects of the Association have to receive the concurrence and sanction of the Government, and are described in a minute dated the 20th October, 1909. The three dispensaries at Yaumati, Hunghom and Kowloon City are managed by separate Committees elected by the inhabitants, and in his work of guiding and controlling them the Registrar General is assisted by the two Chinese Members of Council and the two Chinese Members of the Sanitary Board. To enable the Registrar General to keep in close touch with the Chinese in matters relating to sanitation, Street Committees have been appointed by the Government and. are con- sulted on matters of importance and encouraged to ask advice. Attached to each dispensary in Victoria are a licentiate of the Hong- kong College of Medicine, a clerk with a knowledge of English and coolies with ambulances and dead-vans to remove patients and dead bodies. Two lecturers are maintained whose duty it is to preach. against "dumping" of bodies in the streets, to point out the benefits to be derived from the dispensaries and to explain the object of the Sanitary laws; handbills are issued in profusion whenever occasion demands and photographs are taken of bodies found in the streets and are posted up in the neighbourhood, and enquiries are made in each case from the Street Committee. There is a District Plague Hospital attached to the West Point Dispensary in Victoria, another in Kow- loon City and a third at Hunghom. A fourth hospital is being built at Wanchai. The number of rats caught during the year in Victoria was 59,914, and in the Kowloon Peninsula where rat-catchers have been engaged by the dispensaries and paid by the Sanitary Depart- ment the number was 15,751. In August, a largely attended meeting of members of the boat- population and of launch-owners, merchants, shop-keepers and others closely connected with the floating population was held, and it was resolved to open a harbour dispensary and to raise a fund for the purpose. A committee of seventeen was elected corresponding to the existing Street Committees, and a hulk was purchased, fitted up as a dispensary, and with the consent of the Harbour Master, moored in Causeway Bay. The dispensary was opened on the 4th October and 244 new cases were attended up to the close of the year. Hitherto the Hunghom Dispensary has occupied leased premises, but a site has now been granted by the Government adjacent to the Kunyam Temple, plans of a suitable building have been designed, and a sufficient sum promised in subscriptions to defray the cost.

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In October the promoters of the Kwong Wah Hospital fogether with a number of the leading Chinese residents of the Kowloon Peninsula presented a petition praying for a grant of land on which to build a small-pox hospital in Kowloon.

CHINESE PUBLIC DISPENSARIES AND DISTRICT PLAGUE HOSPITALS.

(Tables XIV to XVIII.)

The dispensaries continue to be conducted on the lines described in Mr. Irving's report of the 26th February last. The three dispens- aries in Victoria and the Harbour Dispensary are managed by a Committee consisting of the Registrar General as Chairman, the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, c.M.G., Vice-Chairman, and seventeen other members. The constitution and general objects of the Association have to receive the concurrence and sanction of the Government, and are described in a minute dated the 20th October, 1909. The three dispensaries at Yaumati, Hunghom and Kowloon City are managed by separate Committees elected by the inhabitants, and in his work of guiding and controlling them the Registrar General is assisted by the two Chinese Members of Council and the two Chinese Members of the Sanitary Board. To enable the Registrar General to keep in close touch with the Chinese in matters relating to sanitation, Street Committees have been appointed by the Government and. are con- sulted on matters of importance and encouraged to ask advice. Attached to each dispensary in Victoria are a licentiate of the Hong- kong College of Medicine, a clerk with a knowledge of English and coolies with ambulances and dead-vans to remove patients and dead bodies. Two lecturers are maintained whose duty it is to preach. against "dumping" of bodies in the streets, to point out the benefits to be derived from the dispensaries and to explain the object of the Sanitary laws; handbills are issued in profusion whenever occasion demands and photographs are taken of bodies found in the streets and are posted up in the neighbourhood, and enquiries are made in each case from the Street Committee. There is a District Plague Hospital attached to the West Point Dispensary in Victoria, another in Kow- loon City and a third at Hunghom. A fourth hospital is being built at Wanchai. The number of rats caught during the year in Victoria was 59,914, and in the Kowloon Peninsula where rat-catchers have been engaged by the dispensaries and paid by the Sanitary Depart- ment the number was 15,751.

In August, a largely attended meeting of members of the boat- population and of launch-owners, merchants, shop-keepers and others closely connected with the floating population was held, and it was resolved to open a harbour dispensary and to raise a fund for the purpose. A committee of seventeen was elected corresponding to the existing Street Committees, and a hulk was purchased, fitted up as a dispensary, and with the consent of the Harbour Master, moored in Causeway Bay. The dispensary was opened on the 4th October and 244 new cases were attended up to the close of the year.

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