# 10- CHINESE HOSPITALS
(Government aided)
## 30. The Chinese Hospitals
--Tung Wah, Tung Wah Eastern and Kwong Wah--are hospitals which are maintained by the Tung Wah Charity Organisation, a purely Chinese body. These institutions, which are assisted by Government, are under inspection by the Government Medical Department. Each has as its Medical Superintendent a Chinese Medical Officer who is paid by Government. The Medical staff consists of Chinese Medical Officers, qualified in Western Medicine, and Chinese Herbalists. The patient is given his choice of treatment.
HOSPITAL No. of Chinese beds No. TREATED IN 1933 No. TREATED IN 1932 Tung Wah-General 414 5,588## 31. Tung Wah Infectious Diseases Hospital
--Situated in Kennedy Town and adjacent to the Government Infectious Diseases Hospital is the Tung Wah Infectious Diseases Hospital, an institution containing 30 beds where 60 patients could be accommodated at a pinch. The treatment here is left almost entirely to the herbalists. During the year there were 137 patients, as compared with 77 in the preceding year.
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CHINESE HOSPITALS.
(Government aided).
30. 'The Chinese Hospitals.--Tung Wah, Tung Wah Eastern and Kwong Wah-are hospitals which are maintained by the Tung Wah Charity Organisation, a purely Chinese body. These institutions, which are assisted by
assisted by Government, are under inspection by the Government Medical Department. Each has as its Medical Superintendent a Chinese Medical Officer who is paid by Government. The Medical staff consists of Chinese Medical Officers, qualified in Western Medicine, and Chinese Herbalists.
The patient is given his choice of treatment.
No. TREATED
IN 1933
No.
HOSPITAL
Chinese
No. TREATED
IN 1932
of
Chinese beds Western Her- Western Her- Medicine balist Medicine balist
Medicine
Medicine
Tung Wah-General... 414 5,588 4,491
5,918 5,086
Maternity. 24 1,600
1,560
Kwong Wah-General. 269 6,082
3,195
6,190
2,339
Maternity. 57 4,096 Tung Wah
Eastern-General 240 2,560
3,327
2,680
2,690 1,872
Maternity. 14
767
588
31. Tung Wah Infectious Diseases Hospital.--Situated in Kennedy Town and adjacent to the Government Infectious Diseases Hospital is the Tung Wah Infectious Diseases Hospital, an institution containing 30 beds where 60 patients could be accommodated at a pinch. The treatment here is left almost entirely to the herbalists.
During the year there were 137 patients, as compared with 77 in the preceding year.
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