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other respects too numerous to particularise.

Amongst the beneficent works carried on by

this Chinese hospital may be noticed the numbers of infants

vaccinated every year free; in fact the whole hospital work

is carried on without charge to those who benefit by it,

the hospital being a purely eleemosynary institution. Not

least amongst its charities is the housing of destitutes

until their friends can be found, or failing this the for-

warding of them by steamer or other modes of conveyance to

their native place. A continual succession of these destitutes

are to be found in the wards set apart for them. Not a few

lads kidnapped, deserted through fear of arrest by their

kidnappers and left stranded in the Colony have thus been

returned to their homes; waifs and strays found on the streets

have been taken in and cared for till some provision could

be made for them; while shipwrecked sailors, though unable

to attain their desired haven, have been enabled, through the

liberality of the Directors of the Tung Wa Hospital, to

return to the port from which they sailed.

The number of patients admitted to the

Hospital