52. The position of the Kwong Wa has caused the Tung Wa Committee no little difficulty and will continue to do so for so long as Yaumati remains a poor neighbourhood. Without larger subscriptions the Hospital cannot hope to be entirely self-supporting, but the new Tung Wa Committee under Mr. Lo Cheung-shiu are vigorously devising means of curtailing the expenses and increasing the receipts of the Hospital.
CHINESE PUBLIC DISPENSARIES AND PLAGUE HOSPITALS.
(Tables XV to XX.)
53. The total number of cases treated at the Dispensaries during the year was 77,207 as compared with 88,803 in 1913. Of this total 50,965 were new, and 26,242 return cases.
The decrease on the 1913 figures may be put down to the war and the consequent increased cost of living in the Colony which led large numbers of Chinese especially of the respectable middle and lower classes to migrate back to China.
54. The number of vaccinations performed shows a similar decrease from 6,065 in 1913 to 5,493 in 1914. (Table XV.)
55. The total expenditure on the Dispensaries was $29,670, as compared with $33,000 in 1913. This figure includes no extraordinary items except one of $1,440, the cost of completing the new Dispensary at Sham-shui-po which will shortly be opened.
The scheme mentioned in last year's report of effecting economy by the purchase of drugs through Dr. Gibson of the Alice Memorial Hospital worked very satisfactorily during the year.
56. The revenue of the Dispensaries, excluding the balance from 1913 ($18,868), amounted to $35,103 and thus exceeded the expenditure by some $5,500.
This total, however, includes a sum of $3,000 generously subscribed by Messrs. Lau Chü-pak, Ho Fuk, Ho Kom-tong, Chan Kai-ming, Chan Cheuk-hing and Li Yau-tsun towards the cost of a new scheme which the Dispensary Committee has in view. This scheme is to provide a new and more complete dispensary in Yaumati to take the place of the present Yaumati and Harbour dispensaries which are in many ways unsatisfactory. The Harbour dispensary is at present located in an old and leaky house-boat beached in Causeway Bay. (Table XVI).
57. The number of dead and dying infants brought to the Dispensaries again shows a small decrease—1,243 as compared with 1,342 in 1913.
52. The position of the Kwong Wa has caused the Tung Wa Committee no little difficulty and will continue to do so for so long as Yaumati remains a poor neighbourhood. Without larger subscriptions the Hospital cannot hope to be entirely self-support- ing, but the new Tung Wa Committee under Mr. Lo Cheung-shiu are vigorously devising means of curtailing the expenses and increasing the receipts of the Hospital.
CHINESE PUBLIC DISPENSARIES AND PLAGUE HOSPITALS.
(Tables XV to XX.)
53. The total number of cases treated at the Dispensaries during the year was 77,207 as compared with 88,803 in 1913. Of this total 50,965 were new, and 26,242 return cases.
The decrease on the 1913 figures may be put down to the war and the consequent increased cost of living in the Colony which led large numbers of Chinese especially of the respectable middle and lower classes to migrate back to China.
54. The number of vaccinations performed shows a similar decrease from 6,065 in 1913 to 5,493 in 1914. (Table XV.)
55. The total expenditure on the Dispensaries was $29,670, as compared with $33,000 in 1913. This figure inclules no extra- ordinary items except one of $1,440, the cost of completing the new Dispensary at Sham-shui-po which will shortly be opened.
The scheme mentioned in last year's report of effecting economy by the purchase of drugs through Dr. Gibson of the Alice Memorial Hospital worked very satisfactorily during the year.
56. The revenue of the Dispensaries, excluding the balance from 1913 ($18,868), amounted to $35.103 and thus exceeded the expenditure by some $5,500.
This total, however, includes a sum of $3,000 generously subscribed by Messrs. Lau Chü-pak, Ho Fuk, Ho Kom-tong, Chan Kai-ming, Chan Cheuk-hing and Li Yau-tsun towards the cost of a new scheme which the Dispensary Committee has in view. This scheme is to provide a new and more complete dispensary in Yaumati to take the place of the present Yaumati and Harbour dispensaries which are in many ways unsatisfactory. The Harbour dispensary is at present located in an old and leaky house-boat beached in Causeway Bay. (Table XVI).
57. The number of dead and dying infants brought to the Dispensaries again shows a small decrease-1,243 as compared with 1,342 in 1913.
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