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and children. The inmates of the Home receive daily instruction in elementary subjects and are allowed to earn pocket-money by needlework. During 1908 a total of 403 persons were admitted. Of these, 86 were released after enquiry, 22 were released under bond, 150 were placed in charge of their husbands, parents, or relations, 14 were placed in charge of the French Consul, 20 were sent to charitable institutions in China, 22 were sent to school, convent, or refuge, 6 were adopted, and 28 were married. One died during the year, one absconded, and fifty-three remained in charge of the Society at the end of the year.
An institution named the Eyre Refuge under Mission auspices, for the same general purposes, was re-organised during the year under a strong committee, and Government contributes a small grant. It is hoped that this institution will work in conjunction with the Po Leung Kuk.
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. The Lecturers, who are Government officials or private medical practitioners, each receive a small honorarium, the funds being derived from the fees of the students and a Government grant-in-aid of $2,500. The minimum curriculum of study is five years, and a preliminary examination in general accord with the regulations of the General Medical Council of Great Britain is required. 111 students have been enrolled up to date (May, 1909); and of these 37 have become qualified "licentiates." Most of the licentiates have settled in the Colony, and are exerting a most useful influence in the direction of displacing the native medical methods and popularising Western medical and sanitary knowledge, while a considerable number of them are employed as resident surgeons in the hospitals for Chinese, as medical officers in charge of the Public Dispensaries, and as assistant medical officers on the railway works. The work of the College has thus far been carried on in lecture-rooms and laboratories made available in various hospitals, &c., in different parts of the City. Steps were being taken to provide adequate buildings of its own; but action was suspended when the University Scheme was proposed. (See page 22.) If a University is established, the College will be merged into its Faculty of Medicine.
The City Hall receives an annual grant of $1,200 from Government. It contains a theatre, some large rooms which are used for balls, meetings, concerts, &c., a museum in which are some very fair specimens, and a large Reference and Lending Library, to which new volumes are added from time to time as funds will allow. The building was erected in 1866-9 by subscription. Small grants are also given to the Italian Convent ($1,280), the French Convent (both of which take in and tend abandoned or sick infants), the West Point Orphanage, the Seaman's Hospital, and other charitable institutions.
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and children. The inmates of the Home receive daily instruc- tion in elementary subjects and are allowed to earn pocket-money by needlework. During 1908 a total of 403 persons were ad- mitted. Of these, -86 were released after enquiry, 22 were released under bond, 150 were placed in charge of their husbands, parents, or relations, 14 were placed in charge of the French Consul, 20 were sent to charitable institutions in China, 22 were sent to school, convent, or refuge, 6 were adopted, and 28 were married. One died during the year, one absconded, and fifty-three remained in charge of the Society at the end of the year.
An institution named the Eyre Refuge under Mission auspices, for the same general purposes, was re-organised during the year under a strong committee, and Government contributes a small grant. It is hoped that this institution will work in con- junction with the Po Leung Kuk.
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. The Lecturers, who are Government officials or private medical practitioners, each receive a small honorarium, the funds being derived from the fees of the students and a Government grant-in-aid of $2,500. The mini- mum curriculum of study is five years, and a preliminary exam- ination in general accord with the regulations of the General Medical Council of Great Britain is required. 111 students have been enrolled up to date (May, 1909); and of these 37 have become qualified "licentiates." Most of the licentiates have settled in the Colony, and are exerting a most useful influence in the direction of displacing the native medical methods and popularising Western medical and sanitary knowledge, while a considerable number of them are employed as resident surgeons in the hospitals for Chinese, as medical officers in charge of the Public Dispensaries, and as assistant medical officers on the rail- way works. The work of the College has thus far been carried on in lecture-rooms and laboratories made available in various hospitals, &c., in different parts of the City. Steps were being taken to provide adequate buildings of its own; but action was suspended when the University Scheme was proposed. (See page 22.) If a University is established, the College will be merged into its Faculty of Medicine.
The City Hall receives an annual grant of $1,200 from Govern- ment. It contains a theatre, some large rooms which are used for balls, meetings, concerts, &c., a museum in which are some very fair specimens, and a large Reference and Lending Library, to which new volumes are added from time to time as funds will allow. The building was erected in 1866-9 by subscription. Small grants are also given to the Italian Convent ($1,280), the French Convent (both of which take in and tend abandoned or sick infants), the West Point Orphanage, the Seaman's Hospital, and other charitable institutions.
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