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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841–1941
COLONIAL REPORTS--ANNUAL,
VI.—INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT.
One of the most important institutions in the Colony not supported by the Government is the Matilda Hospital, which stands on a commanding site of nearly three acres at Mount Kellet in the Hill District. It consists of a main building containing six wards with 26 beds, quarters for four nurses, a house for the Medical Officer in charge, and an operation block. A Maternity Ward, connected by a covered way with the main building, is in course of erection. The total cost of the buildings and their equipment has been more than $600,000. The hospital was erected in pursuance of the directions of the late Mr. Granville Sharp, who died on the 16th August, 1899, and who by his will gave the residue of his estate, amounting to more than $2,000,000, in trust "for the erection and maintenance of a Hospital at Mount Kellet in this Colony to the Glory of God, and the good of men; in loving memory of his sainted Wife Matilda Lincolne, the same to be called 'Matilda Hospital'".
The management of the hospital is vested in a Governing Body consisting of:-
The Trustees for the time being of the will of the Testator.
The Bishop of the Diocese.
The Chaplain of St. John's Cathedral.
The Minister of the Union Church.
Four additional members.
The objects for which the hospital is established are:-
(a) To provide, carry on and maintain a hospital for the benefit of patients primarily who are poor, helpless and forsaken and to provide gratuitous medical relief to any such person suffering from disease or ill-health.
(b) The hospital shall be considered to be established as a Religious and Evangelistic Institution.
(c) The hospital is reserved for British, American, and European Patients.
It was the express wish of the Testator that the hospital should be quite self-supporting, and be able to maintain itself, and that it should be absolutely unnecessary at any time during the continuance of the institution to appeal to the public in any way for funds for its maintenance.
Among institutions recognised and encouraged, but not to any considerable extent supported, by Government, may be mentioned the Po Leung Kuk, the Eyre Refuge, the City Hall, and the Chinese Public Dispensaries.
352
20
Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841–1941
COLONIAL REPORTS- -ANNUAL,
VI.—INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT.
One of the most important institutions in the Colony not supported by the Government is the Matilda Hospital, which stands on a com- manding site of nearly three acres at Mount Kellet in the Hill District. It consists of a main building containing six wards with 26 beds, quarters for four nurses, a house for the Medical Officer in charge, and an operation block. A Maternity Ward, connected by a covered way with the main building, is in course of erection. The total cost of the buildings and their equipment has been more than $600,000. The hospital was erected in pursuance of the directions of the late Mr. Granville Sharp, who died on the 16th August, 1899, and who by his will gave the residue of his estate, amounting to more than $2,000,000, in trust "for the erection and maintenance of a Hospital "at Mount Kellet in this Colony to the Glory of God, and the good of men; in loving memory of his sainted Wife Matilda Lincolne, the "same to be called "Matilda Hospital"".
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The management of the hospital is vested in a Governing Body consisting of:-
The Trustees for the time being of the will of the Testator.
The Bishop of the Diocese.
The Chaplain of St. John's Cathedral.
The Minister of the Union Church.
Four additional members.
The objects for which the hospital is established are:-
(a) To provide carry on and maintain a hospital for the beneât of patients primarily who are poor helpless and forsaken and to provide gratuitous medical relief to any such . person suffering from disease or ill-health.
(b) The hospital shall be considered to be established as a
Religious and Evangelistic Institution.
(c) The hospital is reserved for British, American, and European
Patients.
It was the express wish of the Testator that the hospital should be quite self-supporting, and be able to maintain itself, and that it should be absolutely unnecessary at any time during the continuance of the institution to appeal to the public in any way for funds for its main- tenance.
Among institutions recognised and encouraged, but not to any considerable extent supported, by Government, may be mentioned the Pó Leung Kuk, the Eyre Refuge, the City Hall, and the Chinese Public Dispensaries.
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