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In addition to the annual Committee appointed by co-option there is a Permanent Committee, which serves to maintain continuity of policy, and of which the Secretary for Chinese Affairs is the ex-officio chairman.
The number of inmates of the Po Leung Kuk on 1st January, 1929, was 61 and during the year 636 persons were admitted as against 622 in 1928.
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 Government makes an annual grant of $2,000, 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.
The Tung Wah Hospital, opened in 1872, is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives annual grants from the Government amounting to $20,500. 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, the maintenance of free vernacular schools, 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.
The hospital is managed by a committee of Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appointment being submitted to Governor for confirmation.
The Eastern Branch of the Tung Wah Hospital at Sookumpo was formally opened by His Excellency the Governor on November 27th. The building which was erected and equipped at a cost of over $300,000 is in every way a credit to the promoters of the scheme and to the Chinese community generally which contributed 95% of the funds required for the purpose.
The Kwong Wah Hospital opened in 1912 is situated on the Kowloon Peninsula at Yaumati. It is similar to the Tung Wah Hospital with which it is closely affiliated and is managed by its own committee of directors under the guidance of the parent institution. About 50% of its expenditure is met by grants from government and the balance from endowments and voluntary subscriptions. During the year a new block of four storeys was erected for the accommodation of maternity cases at a cost of some $60,000.
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In addition to the annual Committee appointed by co-option there is a Permanent Committee, which serves to maintain continuity of policy, and of which the Secretary for Chinese Affairs is the ex- officio chairman.
The number of inmates of the Po Leung Kuk on 1st January, 1929, was 61 and during the year 636 persons were admitted as against 622 in 1928.
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
•nd ambulances and dead vans provided in order to remove cases or 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 Government makes an annual grant of $2,000, 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.
The Tung Wah Hospital, opened in 1872, is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives annual grants from the Government amounting to $20,500. Only Chinese are treated in this institution. Various other services not appertain- ing to a hospital are performed by the institution, such as the free burial of the poor, the repatriation of destitutes, the maintenance of free vernacular schools, 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.
The hospital is managed by a committee of Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appointment being submitted to Governor for confirmation.
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The Eastern Branch of the Tung Wah Hospital at Sookumpo was formally opened by His Excellency the Governor on November 27th. The building which was erected and equipped at a cost of over $300,000 is in every way a credit to the promoters of the scheme and to the Chinese community generally which contributed 95% of the funds required for the purpose.
The Kwong Wah Hospital opened in 1912 is situated on the Kowloon Peninsula at Yaumati. It is similar to the Tung Wah Hospital with which it is closely affiliated and is managed by its own committee of directors under the guidance of the parent institu- tion. About 50% of its expenditure is met by grants from govern- ment and the balance from endowments and voluntary subscriptions. During the year a new block of four storeys was erected for the accommodation of maternity cases at a cost of some $60,000.
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