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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.
Hospitals.
10. The Colonial Surgeon has again drawn attention to the unfitness of the Civil Hospital for the purpose to which it is being devoted, as well in respect to size as to construction.
1,296 cases, he observes, have been treated in a structure which is neither large enough for nor adapted to the treatment of one-third of that number, and under such circumstances it seems that no further time should be lost in the erection of a new hospital. I urge it now especially in consequence of the approaching completion of the Pok-foo-lum reservoir, and the consequent greater ability of the Colony to bear the outlay.
Education.
11. The report made by Mr. Stewart of the state of the schools under his supervision is very interesting, the central school in Hong Kong having maintained its ground in respect to numbers, notwithstanding the apprehensions entertained that commercial depression, and the consequent inability of many to obtain mercantile employment, might cause them to withdraw.
It may well be inferred from this, as Mr. Stewart very justly observes, that education is being appreciated by the parents and boys as much for its own sake as for the mere making of money, for which it might have been considered a preparation. Indeed, it is scarcely possible to arrive at any other conclusion, looking at the ten subjects in which the first or highest class was examined, viz. algebra, arithmetic, chemistry, dictation, English composition, geography, geometry, grammar, translation from Chinese into English, and from English into Chinese.
The village schools, which are free schools entirely supported by the Government, are twelve in number, and the schools in receipt of grants in aid are now eleven in number, five having been added during the year. These latter schools differ from the ordinary village schools simply in this, that the villagers provide the school-house and select the master, who gets one half of his salary in kind from the parents and the other half, amounting to $60, from the Government. The system is not approved by Mr. Stewart for the reasons given by him at length.
The number of scholars taught in the Government schools during 1870 was as follows:- boys, 1,191; girls, 111, and the cost incurred was $14,232.01, or 2,965l. 0ld.
I have, &c., (Signed)
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
360
Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
OF HER MAJESTY'S COLONIAL POSSESSIONS.
Hospitals.
10. The Colonial Surgeon has again drawn attention to the unfit- ness of the Civil Hospital for the purpose to which it is being devoted, as well in respect to size as to construction.
1,296 cases, he observes, have been treated in a structure which is neither large enough for nor adapted to the treatment of one- third of that number, and under such circumstances it seems that no further time should be lost in the erection of a new hospital. I urge it. now especially in consequence of the approaching completion of the P'ok-foo-lum reservoir, and the consequent greater ability of the Colony to bear the outlay.
Education.
11. The report made by Mr. Stewart of the state of the schools under his supervision is very interesting, the central school in Hong Kong having maintained its ground in respect to numbers, notwith- standing the apprehensions entertained that commercial depression, and the consequent inability of many to obtain mercantile employ- ment, might cause them to withdraw.
It may well be inferred from this, as Mr. Stewart very justly observes, that education is being appreciated by the parents and boys as much for its own sake as for the mere making of money, for which it might have been considered a preparation. Indeed, it is scarcely possible to arrive at any other conclusion, looking at the ten subjects in which the first or highest class was examined, viz. algebra, arithmetic, chemistry, dictation, English composition, geo- graphy, geometry, grammar, translation from Chinese into English, and from English into Chinese.
The village schools, which are free schools entirely supported by the Government, are twelve in number, and the schools in receipt of grants in aid are now cleven in number, five having been added during the year. These latter schools differ from the ordinary village schools simply in this, that the villagers provide the school-house and select the master, who gets one half of his salary in kind from the parents and the other half, amounting to $60, from the Govern- ment. The system is not approved by Mr. Stewart for the reasons given by him at length.
The number of scholars taught in the Government schools during 1870 was as follows:-boys, 1,191; girls, 111, and the cost incurred was $14,232.01, or 2,9657. Ołd.
I have, &c., (Signed)
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Colonial Secretary.
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