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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL.
The Hong Kong College of Medicine was founded in 1887. 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. 102 students have been enrolled up to the end of 1907, and of these 33 have become qualified licentiates and have obtained various posts under Government and elsewhere. The institution is of great value in spreading a knowledge of Western medical science among the Chinese; and in addition to the employment of certain of the licentiates in the public service and in the Chinese Dispensaries the senior students have frequently been made use of for various purposes during epidemics. A Government grant-in-aid of $2,500 is made to the college, to be used as honoraria to the lecturers, who are either Government officials or medical practitioners in local practice. Steps are at present being taken for the provision of adequate buildings for the purposes of the College, which has hitherto carried on its work in various lecture-rooms and laboratories placed at its disposal by hospitals and other institutions in different parts of the City.
The City Hall receives an annual grant of $1,200 from Government. It contains a reference and circulating library and museum.
VIII-CRIMINAL AND POLICE.
The total of all cases reported to the Police was 11,540, being an increase of 396 or 3.55 per cent, as compared with 1906. In the division of these cases into serious and minor offences there is a decrease in the former as compared with the previous year of 27 cases or 0.81 per cent.
The number of serious offences reported was 297 below the average of the quinquennial period commencing with the year 1903.
The number of minor offences reported shows an increase of 423 as compared with 1906.
The number of minor offences reported was 385 above the average of the quinquennial period.
The total number of persons committed to Victoria Gaol was 5,877, as compared with 5,799 in 1906, but of these only 2,460 were committed for criminal offences, against 2,575 in 1906. Of committals for non-criminal offences there were 84 less under the Prepared Opium Ordinance and 44 less for infringement of Sanitary By-laws.
The daily average of prisoners confined in the Gaol was 502, the average for 1906 being 518 and the highest previous average being 726 in 1904. The percentage of prisoners to population, according to the daily average of the former and the estimated number of the latter, was .144, as compared with
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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL.
The Hong Kong College of Medicine was founded in 1887. 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. 102 students have been enrolled up to the end of 1907, and of these 33 have become qualified licen- tiates and have obtained various posts under Government and elsewhere. The institution is of great value in spreading a knowledge of Western medical science among the Chinese; and in addition to the employment of certain of the licentiates in the public service and in the Chinese Dispensaries the senior students have frequently been made use of for various purposes during epidemics. A Government grant-in-aid of $2,500 is made to the college, to be used as honoraria to the lecturers, who are either Government officials or medical prac- titioners in local practice. Steps are at present being taken for the provision of adequate buildings for the purposes of the College, which has hitherto carried on its work in various lecture-rooms and laboratories placed at its disposal by hospitals and other institutions in different parts of the City.
The City Hall receives an annual grant of $1,200 from Government. It contains a reference and circulating library and museum.
VIII-CRIMINAL AND POLICE.
The total of all cases reported to the Police was 11,540, being an increase of 396 or 3.55 per cent, as compared with 1906. In the division of these cases into serious and minor offences there is a decrease in the former as compared with the previous year of 27 cases or 81 per cent.
The number of serious offences reported was 297 below the average of the quinquennial period commencing with the year 1903.
The number of minor offences reported shows an increase of 423 as compared with 1906.
The number of minor offences reported was 385 above the average of the quinquennial period.
The total number of persons committed to Victoria Gaol was 5,877, as compared with 5,799 in 1906, but of these only 2,460 were committed for criminal offences, against 2,575 in 1906. Of committals for non-criminal offences there were 84 less under the Prepared Opium Ordinance and 44 less for infringe- ment of Sanitary By-laws.
The daily average of prisoners confined in the Gaol was 502, the average for 1906 being 518 and the highest previous average being 726 in 1904. The percentage of prisoners to population, according to the daily average of the former and the estimated number of the latter, was 144, as compared with
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