The health of the staff and the workmen engaged during construction was good.
The Section was opened for Public Traffic on the 1st October and the takings to the end of December have been $33,980.33.
The Expenditure against the Loan Account during the year was approximately $1,965,338.50, making a total to end of 1910 of $11,884,427.76.
VI-GOVERNMENT AND AIDED INSTITUTIONS.
(a.) HOSPITALS.
Government Hospitals consist of the Civil Hospital to which is attached an isolated Maternity Hospital, the Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, and the Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital. There is an Observation Station capable of accommodating 1,500 persons in the event of an outbreak of infectious disease in a ship arriving in the Harbour.
The Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 19 wards. 2,644 in-patients and 17,759 out-patients were treated during 1910. 340 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 188 in 1909 and 279 in 1908. The Maternity Hospital contains 6 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 107 confinements occurred during the year. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 41 beds. During 1910, 344 patients were under treatment. Kennedy Town Hospital contains 26 beds. In 1910, 19 cases were treated, 9 being Small-pox.
(b.) LUNATIC ASYLUM.
The Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separated, the European portion containing 8 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 195 patients of all races were treated during 1910 and there were 9 deaths.
(c.) THE TUNG WAH AND OTHER CHINESE HOSPITALS.
This hospital, opened in 1872, is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives an annual grant of $8,000 from the Government. Only Chinese are treated in this institution. Various other services not appertaining to a hospital are performed by the institution such as the free burial of the poor, the repatriation of destitutes, and the organisation of charitable relief in emergencies. Chinese as well as European methods of treatment are employed in accordance with the wishes expressed by the patients or their friends. About half the number are now treated by Western methods. The Hospital is managed by a Committee of Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appointment being submitted to the Governor for confirmation. It is under the supervision of a visiting physician who is a member of the Medical Department, whilst a Chinese house surgeon trained in Western medicine is a member of the hospital staff.
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The health of the staff and the workmen engaged during con- struction was good.
The Section was opened for Public Traffic on the 1st October and the takings to the end of December have been $33,980.33.
The Expenditure against the Loan Account during the year was approximately $1,965,338.50, making a total to end of 1910 of $11,884,427.76.
VI-GOVERNMENT AND AIDED INSTITUTIONS.
(a.) HOSPITALS.
Government Hospitals consist of the Civil Hospital to which is attached an isolated Maternity Hospital, the Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, and the Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital. There is an Observation Station capable of accommodating 1,500 persons in the event of an outbreak of infectious disease in a ship arriving in the Harbour.
The Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 19 wards. 2,644 in- patients and 17,759 out-patients were treated during 1910. 340 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 188 in 1909 and 279 in 1908. The Maternity Hospital contains 6 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 107 confinements occurred during the year. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 41 beds. During 1910, 344 patients were under treatment. Kennedy Town Hospital con- tains 26 beds. In 1910, 19 cases were treated, 9 being Small-pox.
(b.) LUNATIC ASYLUM.
The Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separated, the European portion containing 8 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 195 patients of all races were treated during 1910 and there were 9 deaths.
(c.) THE TUNG WAH AND OTHER CHINESE HOSPITALS.
This hospital, opened in 1872, is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives an annual grant of $8,000 from the Government. Only Chinese are treated in this institution. Various other services not appertaining to a hospital are performed by the institution such as the free burial of the poor. the repatriation of destitutes, and the organisation of charitable relief in emergencies. Chinese as well as European methods of treatment are employed in accordance with the wishes expressed by the patients or their friends. About half the number are now treated by Western methods. The Hospital is managed by a Committee of Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appointment being sub- mitted to the Governor for confirmation. It is under the supervision of a visiting physician who is a member of the Medical Department, whilst a Chinese house surgeon trained in Western medicine is a member of the hospital staff.
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