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patients or their friends. The Hospital is managed by a Committee of Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appointment being submitted to the Governor for confirmation. The financial position of the Hospital was improved during the year and its title to its investments in land was secured by Ordinance.
OTHER GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS.
The Prison, Observatory, Post Office, Educational Establishments, and other Government institutions are dealt with under separate heads.
IV.—INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT.
Among institutions recognised and encouraged but not to any considerable extent supported by Government may be mentioned the Po Leung Kuk, the College of Medicine for Chinese, and the City Hall.
The Po Leung Kuk is an institution, incorporated in 1893, presided over by the Registrar-General and an annually-elected Committee of 12 Chinese gentlemen, for the protection of women and children. The inmates of the home receive daily instruction in elementary subjects, and are allowed to earn pocket-money by needle-work. During 1904, a total of 676 persons were admitted. Of these, 287 were released after enquiry, 38 were released under bond, 138 were placed in charge of their husbands, parents or relations, eight were placed in charge of the Japanese Consul, 76 were sent to charitable institutions in China, 15 were sent to school, convent or refuge, 11 were adopted, 29 were married, and two died. In consequence of an epidemic of beri-beri during the summer, the women's quarters were vacated, and the inmates temporarily distributed between Tung Wa Hospital and the Italian Convent.
The Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese was founded in 1887, for the purpose of teaching surgery, medicine, and obstetrics 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. Eighty-seven students have been enrolled up to the end of 1904, and of these 19 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, the senior students
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HONG KONG, 1904.
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patients or their friends. The Hospital is managed by a Committee of Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appoint- ment being submitted to the Governor for confirmation. The financial position of the Hospital was improved during the year and its title to its investments in land was secured by "Ordinance.
OTHER GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS.
The Prison, Observatory, Post Office, Educational Establish- ments, and other Government institutions are dealt with under separate heads.
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VIL-INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT.
Among institutions recognised and encouraged but not to any .considerable extent supported by Government may be men- tioned the Pó Leung Kuk, the College of Medicine for Chinese, and the City Hall.
The Pó Leung Kuk is an institution, incorporated in 1893, presided over by the Registrar-General and an annually-elected Committee of 12 Chinese gentlemen, for the protection of women and children. The inmates of the home receive daily instruc- tion in elementary subjects, and are allowed to earn pocket- money by needle-work. During 1904, a total of 676 persons were admitted. Of these, 287 were released after enquiry, 38 were released under bond, 138 were placed in charge of their husbands, parents or relations, eight were placed in charge of the Japanese Consul, 76 were sent to charitable institutions in China, 15 were sent to school, convent or refuge, 11 were adopted, 29 were married, and two died. In consequence of an -epidemic of beri-beri during the summer, the women's quarters were vacated, and the inmates temporarily distributed between Tung Wa Hospital and the Italian Convent.
The Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese was founded in 1887, for the purpose of teaching surgery, medicine, and -obstetrics 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. Eighty-seven students have been enrolled up to the end of 1904, and of these 19 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 cer- -tain of the licentiates in the public service, the senior students
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