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To obtain more accurate figures of public health expenditure items such as water and drainage works, Urban Council cleansing services, etc., have been included in the following table of expenditure:--
Table II.
Motor ambulance service $ 28,360.84 Police Department 407.50 Public Works Department 1,182,597.23 Sanitary (Urban Council) Department 1,183,030.29 Subsidies to charities 1,172,545.97 Medical Department 2,486,598.81 $ 6,053,540.64The total revenue for the Colony from all sources in 1939 was $41,478,052.24 and the expenditure on medical services therefore formed 14.59 per centum of the general revenue as compared with 14.66 per centum in 1938.
(a) Refugees.
II. PUBLIC HEALTH.
(A) General Remarks.
The state of public health in the Colony of Hong Kong during the year 1939 was conditioned principally by the refugee factor. The extension of the Sino-Japanese conflict culminating in the landing at Bias Bay in October, 1938, the capture of Canton in November and mopping-up operations in Kwangtung close to the Colony's frontier led to a great increase in the number of refugees who sought shelter in Hong Kong.
2. Accurate figures are only available in respect of arrivals and departures by rail—a method of communication which ceased after the Japanese landing in Kwangtung—and by recognized steamship lines; hence, it is difficult to indicate even approximately the balance of immigration over emigration during 1939.
3. All that can be said is that the surplus of arrivals over departures by the methods named above in 1938 amounted to 188,039.
4. At the end of 1939, the corresponding figure was about a further 73,000 making approximately 261,600 by these routes for the twenty-four months ended 31st of December, 1939. The peak was reached at the beginning of July, 1939, when arrivals over departures by recognized steamship lines amounted to 327,833. Thereafter, the figure diminished somewhat with the threat of extension of hostilities to Hong Kong itself and a blockade of the land frontiers in July, August and September.
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To obtain more accurate figures of public health expenditure items such as water and drainage works, Urban Council cleansing services, etc., have been included in the following table of expenditure:--
Table II.
Motor ambulance service
$
28,360.84
Police Department
407.50
Public Works Department
1,182,597.23
Sanitary (Urban Council) Department
1,183,030.29
Subsidies to charities
1,172,545.97
Medical Department
2,486,598.81
$6,053,540.64
The total revenue for the Colony from all sources in 1939 was $41,478,052.24 and the expenditure on medical services therefore formed 14.59 per centum of the general revenue as compared with 14.66 per centum in 1938.
(a) Refugees.
II. PUBLIC HEALTH.
(A) General Remarks.
The state of public health in the Colony of Hong Kong during the year 1939 was conditioned principally by the refugee factor. The extension of the Sino- Japanese conflict culminating in the landing at Bias Bay in October, 1938, the capture of Canton in November and mopping-up operations in Kwangtung close to the Colony's frontier led to a great increase in the number of refugees who sought shelter in Hong Kong.
2. Accurate figures are only available in respect of arrivals and departures by rail-a method of communication which ceased after the Japanese landing in Kwangtung-and by recognized steamship lines; hence, it is difficult to indicate even approximately the balance of immigration over emigration during 1939.
3. All that can be said is that the surplus of arrivals over departures by the methods named above in 1938 amounted to 188,039.
4. At the end of 1939, the corresponding figure was about a further 73,000 making approximately 261,600 by these routes for the twenty-four months ended 31st of December, 1939. The peak was reached at the beginning of July, 1939, when arrivals over departures by recognized steamship lines amounted to 327,833. Thereafter, the figure diminished somewhat with the threat of extension of hostilities to Hong Kong itself and a blockade of the land frontiers in July, August and September.
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