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# ANNEXE B.
## THE CHINESE HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES.
The Chinese Hospitals and Dispensaries are institutions established by the Chinese, in some instances over seventy years ago, for the benefit of the sick poor of Chinese nationality.
2. There are three general hospitals, each with a maternity department, one maternity hospital, and nine public dispensaries.
3. They are maintained by subscriptions from the public, by donations from the Chinese General Charities Fund, and by direct grants from Government. The Government grants have been substantially increased in recent years.
4. These institutions are controlled by Chinese Committees working in close co-operation with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and the Director of Medical Services. Both hospitals and dispensaries are subject to inspection by Government Visiting Medical Officers, and the Medical Superintendents of the three hospitals are Chinese Medical Officers of the Medical Department.
5. In the three big hospitals the patients can choose between Western medicine and Chinese herbal medicine, but in the maternity hospitals and dispensaries Western medicine only is practised.
## THE CHINESE HOSPITALS.
6. The Tung Wah Hospital, situated in the centre of the most thickly populated area in Victoria, was first occupied in 1873. The Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, situated at the east end of Victoria, was opened in 1929. The Government gave the sites and, with grants of money, assisted in the erection of the buildings. The Kwong Wah Hospital, situated in the Central District of Kowloon, was built in 1911 to meet the needs of those resident in the Peninsula. The funds for its erection were raised by public subscription.
7. In control of the three hospitals is the Tung Wah Hospital Committee, a body of Chinese gentlemen elected each year by the subscribers. But the end of 1938 saw the inauguration of a Tung Wah Hospital Medical Committee consisting of representatives of the Tung Wah Advisory Board and of the Tung Wah Hospitals Directorate, the Visiting Medical Officer, and the Medical Superintendents of the three hospitals, under the chairmanship of the Director of Medical Services. This Committee, appointed by His Excellency the Governor, is the executive authority in all matters relating to the medical administration of the Tung Wah Hospitals.
8. The Tung Wah Hospital corporation serves many purposes and has wide ramifications extending into many departments of charitable work. Its activities include:
(1) Accommodation and treatment by Western or herbal medicine of the sick poor.
(2) The care and provision for the senile and indigent.
(3) Maternity and child welfare service for the poor.
(4) Free vaccination against smallpox and inoculation against cholera.
(5) Provision of coffins and burial of the dead.
(6) Training schools for nurses and midwives.
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ANNEXE B.
THE CHINESE HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES.
The Chinese Hospitals and Dispensaries are institutions established by the Chinese, in some instance over seventy years ago, for the benefit of the sick poor of Chinese nationality.
2. There are three general hospitals, each with a maternity department, one maternity hospital, and nine public dispensaries.
3. They are maintained by subscriptions from the public, by donations from the Chinese General Charities Fund, and by direct grants from Government. The Government grants have been substantially increased in recent years.
4. These institutions are controlled by Chinese Committees working in close co-operation with the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and the Director of Medical Services. Both hospitals and dispensaries are subject to inspection by Government Visiting Medical Officers, and the Medical Superintendents of the three hospitals are Chinese Medical Officers of the Medical Department.
choose between Western
5. In the three big hospitals the patients can medicine and Chinese herbal medicine, but in the maternity hospitals and dispensaries Western medicine only is practised.
THE CHINESE HOSPITALS.
6. The Tung Wah Hospital situated in the centre of the most thickly populated area in Victoria was first occupied in 1873. The Tung Wah Eastern Hospital situated at the east end of Victoria was opened in 1929.
The Government gave
the sites and with grants of money assisted in the erection of the buildings. The Kwong Wah Hospital situated in the Central District of Kowloon was built in 1911 to meet the needs of those resident in the Peninsula. The funds for its erection were raised by public subscription.
7. In control of the three hospitals is the Tung Wah Hospital Committee, a body of Chinese gentlemen elected each year by the subscribers, but the end of 1938 saw the inauguration of a Tung Wah Hospital Medical Committee consisting of representatives of the Tung Wah Advisory Board and of the Tung Wah Hospitals Directorate, the Visiting Medical Officer, and the Medical Superintendents of the three hospitals under the chairmanship of the Director of Medical Services. This Committee, appointed by His Excellency the Governor, is the executive authority in all matters relating to the medical administration of the Tung Wah Hospitals.
8. The Tung Wah Hospital corporation serves many purposes, and has wide ramifications extending into many departments of charitable work. Its activities include:-
(1) Accommodation and treatment by Western or herbal medicine of the
sick poor.
(2) The care and provision for the senile and indigent.
(3) Maternity and child welfare service for the poor.
(4) Free vaccination against smallpox and inoculation against cholera.
(5) Provision of coffins and burial of the dead.
(6) Training schools for nurses and midwives.
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