Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL,
harbour was successfully undertaken during the year. The work of laying rider-mains was also commenced.
The total amount expended on Public Works Extraordinary, exclusive of the Praya East Reclamation and rider-mains, was $1,264,351.30 and on works annually recurrent $532,751.85.
VI-GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS.
(A.) HOSPITALS.
Government Hospitals consist of the Civil Hospital to which is attached an isolated Maternity Hospital, the Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, the Kennedy Town Infectious-Diseases Hospital, and the bulk "Hygeia" used mainly for the treatment of small-pox.
The Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 19 wards. 2,585 in-patients and 13,106 out-patients were treated during the year 1904. 223 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 346 in 1903 and 349 in 1902. The Maternity Hospital contains 4 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 61 confinements occurred during the year with two deaths. The Victoria Hospital, opened in November, 1903, by Sir Henry Blake, is situated at the Peak and contains 41 beds. During 1904, 111 patients were under treatment. Kennedy Town Hospital contains 26 beds in the main building. In 1904, 87 cases were treated, of which 78 were plague and 5 cholera. On the “Hygeia" 40 cases were treated, of which 32 were small-pox.
(B.) LUNATIC ASYLUM.
The Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separate, the European portion containing 8 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 166 patients of all races were treated during 1904, and there were 13 deaths.
(C.) THE TUNG WA HOSPITAL.
This Hospital, opened in 1872, is mainly supported by voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives an annual grant of $6,000 from the Government. Only Chinese are treated in this institution which takes the place of a poor-house and hospital for Chinese sick and destitute, and is administered by an annually-elected body of 15 Chinese directors. Chinese as well as European methods of treatment are employed in accordance with the wishes expressed by the
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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL,
harbour was successfully undertaken during the year. The work of laying rider-mains was also commenced.
The total amount expended on Public Works Extraordinary, exclusive of the Praya East Reclamation and rider-mains, was - $1,264.351.30 and on works annually recurrent $532,751.85.
VI-GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS.
(A.) HOSPITALS.
Government Hospitals consist of the Civil Hospital to which is attached an isolated Maternity Hospital, the Victoria Hos- pital for Women and Children, the Kennedy Town Infectious- Diseases Hospital, and the bulk "Hygeia" used mainly for the treatment of small-pox.
The Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 19 wards. 2,585 in- patients and 13,106 out-patients were treated during the year- 1904. 223 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 346 in 1903 and 349 in 1902. The Maternity Hospital contains 4 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 61 confinements occurred during the year with two deaths. The Victoria Hospital, opened in November, 1903, by Sir Henry Blake, is situated at the Peak and contains 41 beds. During 1904, 111 patients were under treatment. Kennedy Town Hospital contains 26- beds in the main building. In 1904, 87 cases were treated, of which 78 were plague and 5 cholera. On the “Hygeia" 40- cases were treated, of which 32 were small-pox.
(B.) LUNATIC ASYLUM.
The Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Government Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separate, the European portion containing 8 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 166- patients of all races were treated during 1904, and there were 13 deaths.
(C.) THE TUNG WA HOSPITAL.
This Hospital, opened in 1872, is mainly supported by. voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives an annual grant of $6,000 from the Government. Only Chinese are treated in this institution which takes the place of a poor- house and hospital for Chinese sick and destitute, and is administered by an annually-elected body of 15 Chinese direc- tors. Chinese as well as European methods of treatment are- employed in accordance with the wishes expressed by the
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