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the work is at present carried on at Kowloon City. A small grant is made by the Government.
The City Hall receives an annual grant of $1,200 from Government. It contains a theatre, some large rooms which are used for balls, meetings, concerts, etc., a museum in which are some very fair specimens, and a large reference and lending library, to which new volumes are added from time to time, as funds will allow. The building was erected in 1866-9 by subscription.
Small grants are also given to the Italian Convent, the French Convent, (both of which take in and tend abandoned or sick infants), the West Point Orphanage, the Seamen's Hospital, and other charitable institutions.
The Chinese Public Dispensaries are institutions maintained in order to provide the Chinese with the services of doctors, whose certificates will be accepted by the Registrar of Deaths, and with the services of interpreters, who can assist the inmates of houses, where a case of infectious disease has occurred. Coolies are engaged and ambulances and dead vans provided in order to remove cases of infectious disease to the Infectious Diseases Hospital and dead bodies to the Mortuary. The Dispensaries receive sick infants and send them to one or other of the Convents and arrange for the burial of dead infants. Free advice and medicine are given and patients are attended at their houses. There are eight Dispensaries in existence. The total cost of maintenance was $37,293 for the year 1920. The Government makes an annual grant of $7,000, and the rest of the cost is defrayed by voluntary subscription. The Dispensaries are conducted by committees under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
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CRIMINAL AND POLICE.
The total of all cases reported to the Police was 11,912 being an increase of 1,370 or 13 per cent. as compared with 1919. There was in 1920 an increase in serious offences of 449 or 9.90 per cent. as compared with the previous year. The number of serious offences reported was 977 over the average of the quinquennial period commencing with the year 1916. The number of minor offences reported shows an increase of 921 as compared with 1919 and was 589 over the average of the quinquennial period.
The total strength of the Police Force in 1920 was Europeans 178, Indians 477, Chinese 626, making a total of 1,281 exclusive of the five superior officers and staff of clerks and coolies. These figures include police paid for by the Railway and other Government Departments. Of this force 14 Europeans, 132 Indians, and 53 Chinese were stationed in the New Territories during the year.
During the year 1920, 7 members of the Hongkong Police Force returned to the Colony from active service, and resumed their police duties. There is still one man who has not yet returned.
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the work is at present carried on at Kowloon City. A small grant is made by the Government.
The City Hall receives an annual graut of $1,200 from Govern- ment. It contains a theatre, some large rooms which are used for balls, meetings, concerts, etc., a museum in which are some very fair specimens, and a large reference and lending library, to which new volumes are added from time to time, as funds will allow. The building was erected in 1866-9 by subscription.
Small grants are also given to the Italian Convent, the Frenchi Convent, (both of which take in and tend abandoned or sick infants), the West Point Orphanage, the Seamen's Hospital, and other chari- table institutions.
The Chinese Public Dispensaries are institutions maintained in order to provide the Chinese with the services of doctors, whose certificates will be accepted by the Registrar of Deaths, and with the services of interpreters, who can assist the inmates of houses, where a case of infectious disease has occurred. Coolies are engaged and ambulances and dead vans provided in order to remove cases of infectious disease to the Infectious Diseases Hospital and dead bodies to the Mortuary. The Dispensaries receive sick infants and send them to one or other of the Convents and arrange for the burial of dead infants. Free advice and medicine are given and patients are attended at their houses. There are eight Dispensaries in existence. The total cost of maintenance was $37,293 for the year 1920. The Government makes an annual grant of $7,000, and the rest of the cost is defrayed by voluntary subscription. The Dispen- saries are conducted by committees under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
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CRIMINAL AND POLICE.
The total of all cases reported to the Police was 11,912 being an increase of 1,370 or 13 per cent. as compared with 1919. There was in 1920 an increase in serious offences of 449 or 9.90 per cent. as compared with the previous year. The number of serious offences reported was 977 over the average of the quinquennial period com- mencing with the year 1916. The number of minor offences reported shows an increase of 921 as compared with 1919 and was 589 over the average of the quinquennial period.
The total strength of the Police Force in 1920 was Europeans 178, Indians 477, Chinese 626, making a total of 1,281 exclusive of the five superior officers and staff of clerks and coolies. These figures include police paid for by the Railway and other Government Departments. Of this force 14 Europeans, 132 Indians, and 53 Chinese were stationed in the New Territories during the year.
During the year 1920, 7 members of the Hongkong Police Force returned to the Colony from active service, and resumed their police duties. There is still one man who has not yet returned.
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