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# CHINESE PUBLIC DISPENSARIES AND DISTRICT PLAGUE HOSPITALS.
(Tables XVII to XXII)
The dispensaries continue to be conducted on the established lines. The three dispensaries in Victoria and the harbour dispensary are managed by a Committee consisting of the Registrar General as Chairman, the Hon. Sir Kai Ho Kai, Kt., C.M.G., Vice-Chairman, and seventeen other members, and the same Committee has opened a dispensary at Shaukiwan. 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, in 926207 C.S.O. 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 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 Hongkong College of Medicine, a clerk with a knowledge of English and coolies with ambulances and dead-vans to remove patients and dead bodies. One lecturer is 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 by the Street Committee. There is a District Plague Hospital attached to the West Point Dispensary, another attached to the East Point Dispensary in Victoria, a third in Kowloon City and a fourth at Hunghom. The number of rats caught during the year in Victoria was 65,927 and in the Kowloon Peninsula where rat-catchers have been engaged by the dispensaries and paid by the Sanitary Department the number was 21,311. During July and August reports as to a large increase in the number of rats in Victoria led to effective action by the Chinese Dispensaries Committee, which employed men through the Central Dispensary to visit houses in the Central District and stop all rat-runs with cement and glass. The matter was managed by Messrs. Ng Hon-tsz and Lau Chu-pak, and the total number of rat-runs stopped was 923 in 232 houses.
The success of the opening of a public dispensary in a temporary building at Shaukiwan in 1910 encouraged the District Committee to draw up a scheme for a permanent dispensary building with a licentiate attached. Over $2,000 was raised among the native population, and a grant of $1,000 made from the funds of the Public Dispensaries Committee. The Government has been approached with a view to granting a site for the building, and it is hoped shortly to proceed to construction.
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CHINESE PUBLIC DISPENSARIES AND DISTRICT PLAGUE HOSPITALS.
(Tables XVII to XXII)
The dispensaries continue to be conducted on the established lines. The three dispensaries in Victoria and the harbour dis- pensary are managed by a Committee consisting of the Registrar General as Chairman, the Hon. Sir Kai Ho Kai, Kt., C.M.G., Vice- Chairman, and seventeen other members, and the same Committee has opened a dispensary at Shaukiwau. 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, in 926207 C.S.O. 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 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 Hongkong College of Medicine, a clerk with a knowledge of English and coolies with ambulances and dead-vans to remove patients and dead bodies. One lecturer is 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 by the Street Committee. There is a District Plague Hospital attached to the West Point Dispensary, another attached to the East Point Dispensary in Victoria, a third in Kowloon City and a fourth at Hunghom. The number of rats caught during the year in Victoria was 65,927 and in the Kowloon Peninsula where rat-catchers have been engaged by the dispensaries and paid by the Sanitary Department the number was 21,311. During July and August reports as to a large increase in the number of rats in Vic- toria led to effective action by the Chinese Dispensaries Committee, which employed men through the Central Dispensary to visit houses in the Central District and stop all rat-runs with cement and glass. The matter was managed by Messrs. Ng Hon-tsz and Lau Chu-pak. and the total number of rat-runs stopped was 923 in 232 houses,
The success of the opening of a public dispensary in a tempor- ary building at Shaukiwan in 1910 encouraged the District Com- mittee to draw up a scheme for a permanent dispensary building with a licentiate attached. Over $2,000 was raised among the native population, and a grant of $1,000 made from the funds of the Public Dispensaries Committee. The Government has been approached with a view to granting a site for the building, and it is hoped shortly to proceed to construction,
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