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(c) Vaccination.
(d) Health propaganda.
(e) Assistance to the destitute.
(f) The provision of coffins for and the burial of the dead.
399. Much progress has been made in all departments of the hospitals during the last few years. These improvements include:-
(a) The appointment of University graduates as full-time Resident Medical Officers.
(b) The foundation of training schools for female nurses.
(c) Extensions and improvements in the male nursing section.
(d) The establishment of clinical laboratories.
(e) The provision of radiological apparatus.
(f) The establishment of up-to-date operating theatres.
(g) The purchase of motor ambulances.
(h) Improvements in the accommodation for patients.
(i) Improvements in quarters for the staff.
400. Today each of the three Chinese Hospitals has a good operating theatre where operations are performed daily, many of which are major in character.
401. In charge of the medical side (Western) of each hospital is a Medical Superintendent, a graduate of the University, whose salary is paid by Government, and who is a member of the Medical Department.
THE TUNG WAH HOSPITAL.
402. The Tung Wah Hospital was established in 1870 as a Chinese free hospital to be managed by Chinese directors under Government supervision. Added to from time to time it has now 460 beds of which 24 are for maternity patients.
403. Originally in the open it is now hemmed in by one of the most thickly populated districts of the Colony.
404. As the directors are reluctant to refuse admission to any deserving case and as the Colony possesses insufficient infirmary accommodation for the number of decrepits in it, the Tung Wah is not only a hospital but a place of refuge for the old and infirm. It is old, it is overcrowded and in some ways insanitary, but it provides shelter, food and medical attendance for many sufferers who would otherwise have none.
Its reconstruction was under consideration at the end of the year.
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(c) Vaccination.
(d) Health propaganda.
(e) Assistance to the destitute.
() The provision of coffins for and the burial of the dead.
399. Much progress has been made in all departments of the hospitals during the last few years. These improvements in- elude:-
(a) The appointment of University graduates as full time
Resident Medical Officers.
(b) The foundation of training schools for female nurses. (c) Extensions and improvements in the inale nursing
section.
(d) The establishment of clinical laboratories.
(e) The provision of radiological apparatus.
The establishment of up-to-date operating theatres.
(g) The purchase of motor ambulances.
(4) Improvements in the accommodation for patients.
(i) Improvements in quarters for the staff.
400. Today each of the three Chinese Hospitals has a good operating theatre where operations are performed daily, many of which are major in character.
401. In charge of the medical side (Western) of each hospital is a Medical Superintendent, a graduate of the University, whose salary is paid by Government, and who is a member of the Medical Department.
THE TUNG WAH HOSPITAL.
402. The Tung Wah Hospital was established is 1870 as a Chinese free hospital to be managed by Chinese directors under Government supervision. Added to from time to time it has now 460 beds of which 24 are for maternity patients.
403. Originally in the open it is now hemmed in by one of the most thickly populated districts of, the Colony.
404. As the directors are reluctant to refuse admission to any deserving case and as the Colony possesses insufficient in- firmary accommodation for the number of decrepits in it, the Tung Wah is not only a hospital but a place of refuge for the eld and infirm. It is old, it is overcrowded and in some ways insanitary, but it provides shelter, food and medical attendance for many sufferers who would otherwise have none.
Its reconstruction was under consideration at the end of the year.
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