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# CHINESE PUBLIC DISPENSARIES.
(Tables XXII to XXV).
35. There are nine "Chinese Public Dispensaries" situated in the populous centres on both sides of the Harbour, and two Maternity Hospitals (the Tsan Yuk in the West, and the Wantsai Hospital in the East) which are an important part of the Dispensaries Organisation. There is an annual Government grant of $2,000, and the Dispensaries and Hospitals are built on land granted by the Government: further the Government finds one Medical Officer in charge of Chinese Hospitals and Dispensaries, and three Assistant Medical Officers (Ladies) to supervise the medical work. Otherwise all the eleven institutions are financed by the Chinese Community and are managed by Chinese Committees with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs as Chairman of the General Committee.
36. An enormous and ever-increasing number of sick, too poor to pay for doctor's fees or buy proper medicine, are successfully reached. In the three big hospitals the patient can choose between Western and Chinese methods of treatment, but here in the Dispensaries he is treated only by Western methods and with the best drugs procurable bought from the Government Central Medical Stores. Lady doctors treat the gynaecological cases once a week in eight of the Dispensaries.
37. The reconstructed and enlarged Dispensary on the Yaumati water-front, which caters largely for the floating population, was nearing completion at the end of the year, and an entirely new Dispensary at Kowloon City, on a central site granted by Government, is in process of construction. The Dispensaries at Shaukiwan, Aberdeen and Wanchai are also in excellent buildings of their kind. The Central Dispensary has been enlarged. Instruments for small minor operations and tooth forceps are being added to each Dispensary, and each will in time have its own microscope, especially for differentiating the Malarias which form a big percentage of the cases treated.
38. Each Dispensary acts as a focus for Propaganda-breaking down prejudices against "Foreign" Medicines and Methods of Treatment.
39. The Dispensaries undertake the removal also of corpses to mortuaries, and they supply coffins.
40. Sick, too serious for outpatient treatment, are removed by the Dispensaries to hospital.
41. For summary of work done in the Dispensaries, see Table XXII.
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CHINESE PUBLIC DISPENSARIES.
(Tables XXII to XXV).
35. There are nine "Chinese Public Dispensaries" situated in the populous centres on both sides of the Harbour, and two Maternity Hospitals (the Tsan Yuk in the West, and the Wantsai Hospital in the East) which are an important part of the Dispensaries Organisation. There is an annual Government grant of $2,000, and the Dispensaries and Hospitals are built on land granted by the Government: further the Government finds one Medical Officer in charge of Chinese Hospitals and Dis- pensaries, and three Assistant Medical Officers (Ladies) to supervise the medical work. Otherwise all the eleven institutions are financed by the Chinese Community and are managed by Chinese Committees with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs as Chairman of the General Committee.
36. An enormous and ever-increasing number of sick, too poor to pay for doctor's fees or buy proper medicine, are successfully reached. In the three big hospitals the patient can choose between Western and Chinese methods of treatment, but here in the Dispensaries he is treated only by Western methods and with the best drugs procurable bought from the Government Central Medical Stores. Lady doctors treat the gynaecological cases once a week in eight of the Dispensaries.
37. The reconstructed and enlarged Dispensary on the Yaumati water-front, which caters largely for the floating popula- tion, was nearing completion at the end of the year, and an entirely new Dispensary at Kowloon City, on a central site. granted by Government, is in process of construction. The Dispensaries at Shaukiwan, Aberdeen and Wanchai are also in excellent buildings of their kind. The Central Dispensary has been enlarged. Instruments for small minor operations and tooth forceps are being added to each Dispensary, and each will in time have its own microscope, especially for differentiating the Malarias which form a big percentage of the cases treated.
38. Each Dispensary acts as а focus for Propaganda- breaking down prejudices against "Foreign" Medicines and Methods of Treatment.
39. The Dispensaries undertake the removal also of corpses to mortuaries, and they supply coffins.
40. Sick, too serious for outpatient treatment, are removed by the Dispensaries to hospital.
41. For summary of work done in the Dispensaries, see Table XXII.
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