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COLONIAL REPORTS—ANNUAL.
A large Reclamation Scheme in front of the eastern section of the city, estimated to cost $5,000,000, was under consideration, and arrangements for the construction of an electric tramway, 9 miles in length, were nearly brought to a conclusion.
VI.-GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS.
(A.)-HOSPITALS.
Government hospitals consist of the Civil Hospital, to which is attached an isolated Lying-in Hospital, Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital, and the hospital hulk "Hygeia."
The Civil Hospital contains 124 beds in 18 wards; the Lying-in Hospital 6 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics; and Kennedy Town Hospital 78 beds. In 1901, 267 cases were treated at Kennedy Town, of which 204 were cases of plague, 42 of small-pox, and 15 of cholera.
Two thousand nine hundred and forty-eight (2,948) in-patients and 12,663 out-patients were treated at the Government Civil Hospital in 1901, showing a slight decrease in the figures for 1900. Malarial fever alone was responsible for over 800 admissions.
The Tung Wa Hospital, supported by voluntary subscriptions among the Chinese and only to a small extent endowed by the Government, takes the place of a Poor House and Hospital for the Chinese sick and destitute. Chinese as well as European methods of treatment are employed in accordance with the wishes expressed by the patients or those who are responsible for them.
(B.) ASYLUM.
The Lunatic Asylum is under the direction of the Principal Civil Medical Officer. European and Chinese patients are separated, the European portion of the Asylum containing 8 beds in 8 separate wards, and the Chinese portion containing 16 beds. Ninety patients of all races were treated during 1901, and there were 7 deaths.
(C.) THE CHINESE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE.
This institution was founded in 1887, largely through the efforts of Dr. Patrick Manson, Dr. Cantlie and others, for the purpose of teaching surgery, medicine and midwifery to Chinese. The government of the college is vested in the Court, of which the rector of the college, who has always been a Government official, is president. 57 students had been enrolled up to 1901,
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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAI. REPORTS—ANNUAL.
A large Reclamation Scheme in front of the eastern section of the city, estimated to cost $5,000,000, was under consideration, and arrangements for the construction of an electric tramway, 9 miles in length, were nearly brought to a conclusion,
VI.-GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS.
(A.)-HOSPITALS.
Government hospitals consist of the Civil Hospital, to which is attached an isolated Lying-in Hospital, Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital, and the hospital hulk "Hygeia."
The Civil Hospital contains 124 beds in 18 wards; the Lying- in Hospital 6 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics; and Kennedy Town Hospital 78 beds. In 1901, 267 cases were treated at Kennedy Town, of which 204 were cases of plague, 42 of small-pox, and 15 of cholera.
Two thousand nine hundred and forty-eight (2,948) in-patients and 12,663 out-patients were treated at the Government Civil Hospital in 1901, showing a slight decrease in the figures for 1900. Malarial fever alone was responsible for over 800 admissions.
The Tung Wa Hospital, supported by voluntary subscriptions among the Chinese and only to a small extent endowed by the Government, takes the place of a Poor House and Hospital for the Chinese sick and destitute. Chinese as well as European methods of treatment are employed in accordance with the wishes expressed by the patients or those who are responsible for them.
(B.) ASYLUM.
The Lunatic Asylum is under the direction of the Principal Civil Medical Officer. European and Chinese patients are separated, the European portion of the Asylum containing 8 beds in 8 separate wards, and the Chinese portion containing 16 beds. Ninety patients of all races were treated during 1901, and there were 7 deaths.
(C.) THE CHINESE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE.
This institution was founded in 1887, largely through the efforts of Dr. Patrick Manson, Dr. Cantlie and others, for the purpose of teaching surgery, medicine and midwifery to Chinese. The government of the college is vested in the Court, of which the rector of the college, who has always been a Government official, is president. 57 students had been enrolled up to 1901,
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