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sections were opened for traffic on 21st December. The fourth and last section had not been opened at the end of the year.
In October last through traffic between Hong Kong and Canton was established but, owing to the disturbances in Chinese territory, traffic on the Chinese section was suspended at the request of the late Viceroy on November 7th and was not resumed until the 14th December. Thereafter the traffic to the end of the year was below normal. The local traffic was steady during the year and receipts were more than was anticipated.
Passengers carried between 5th October and 31st December are as follows:
British Section to China 29,338 China to Hong Kong and Kowloon 27,653VI.-GOVERNMENT AND AIDED 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, and the Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital. There is an observation station capable of accommodating 1,500 persons in the event of an outbreak of infectious disease on board a ship arriving in the harbour.
The Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 19 wards. 2,370 in-patients and 15,489 out-patients were treated during 1911 as against 2,644 and 17,759 respectively in 1910. 112 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 340 in 1910 and 188 in 1909. The Maternity Hospital contains 6 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 138 confinements occurred during the year as against 107 in 1910. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 41 beds, and during 1911 309 patients were under treatment there. At Kennedy Town Hospital, which contains 26 beds, 22 cases were treated in 1911, 21 being small-pox.
(b.) LUNATIC ASYLUM.
The Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separated, the European portion containing 8 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 220 patients of all races were treated during 1911 and there were 14 deaths.
(c.) THE TUNG WA AND OTHER CHINESE HOSPITALS.
The Tung Wa Hospital, opened in 1872, is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives an annual grant of $8,000 from the Government. Only Chinese are treated in this institution. Various other services not appertaining to a hospital are performed by the institution, such as the free burial of the poor, the repatriation of destitutes, and the organisation of charitable relief in emergencies. Chinese as well as European
1904-1919
TONG KONG, 1911.
211
17.
sections were opened for traffic on 21st December. The fourth and last section had not been opened at the end of the year.
In October last through traffic between Hong Kong and Canton was established but, owing to the disturbances in Chinese terri- tory, traffic on the Chinese section was suspended at the request of the late Viceroy on November 7th and was not resumed until the 14th December. Thereafter the traffic to the end of the year- was below normal. The local traffic was steady during the year and receipts were more than was anticipated.
Passengers carried between 5th October and 31st December are- as follows:
British Section to China
China to Hong Kong and Kowloon.....
29,338 27,653
VI.-GOVERNMENT AND AIDED 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, and the Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital. There is an observation station capable of accommodating 1,500 persons in the event of an outbreak of infectious disease on board a ship arriving in the harbour.
The Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 19 wards. 2,370 in- patients and 15,489 out-patients were treated during 1911 as against 2,644 and 17,759 respectively in 1910. 112 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 340 in 1910 and 188 in 1909. The Maternity Hospital contains 6 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 138 confinements occurred during the year as against 107 in 1910. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak con- tains 41 beds, and during 1911 309 patients were under treatment there. At Kennedy Town Hospital, which contains 26 beds, 22 cases were treated in 1911, 21 being small-pox.
(6.) LUNATIC ASYLUM.
The Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separated, the European portion containing 8 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 220 patients of all races were treated during 1911 and there were 14 deaths.
(c.) THE TUNG WA AND OTHER CHINESE HOSPITALS.
The Tung Wa Hospital, opened in 1872, is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives an annual grant of $8,000 from the Government. Only Chinese are treated in this institution. Various other services not appertaining to a hospital are performed by the institution, such as the free burial of the poor, the repatriation of destitutes, and the organisation of charitable relief in emergencies. Chinese as well as European
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