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| whether a large proportion of lives can be saved by treating the people in their own houses and dging the other inhabitants of the house elsewhere. We have tried many things and you have gone with

hand in hand. Now I want you to try this and see if it may or inay not succeed. It now remains for me to declare the new wing of the hospital open and I shall presently do so with the earnest hope that dropping like the gentle dew of heaven the beneficial effects of this valuable institution may be felt for many a long year by the Chinese poor among us in the assuagement of their misery who when afflicted with disease will find extended to them that brotherly kindness and pity that are the true bords of union, and help to make the whole world kin. (Applause)

With a golden key that was handed to him His Excellency then opened the door of the new hospital which he formally declared open.

The inscription on the key is: “t resented by the Committee of the Tung Wa Hospital to H.E. Sir Henry A. Blake, G.C.M.G., on the occasion of the opening of the new hospital building. Hongkong, 26th March, 1905,"

THE NEW BUILDING.

The new building is a very handsome structure, situated opposite the Tung Wa Hospital, of which it will form an extension. It is bounded on its four sides by Station Street, Market Street, Pound Lane and Po Yan Street. The building consists of three blocks on different levels. First there is the adminis- trative block with central hall, doctors' rooms, consulting room and office on the ground floor, and operating room with four private single wards for surgical cases on the apper floor. The operating room is lighted from the roof and is fitted with all the most modern requirements. Downstairs, the I central ball is a finely fitted apartment, laid with marble tiles; the walls are done with green-faced brick and there are several beauti- ful Chinese columns. The second block con. sists of two 7-bedded wards on the ground floor and two corresponding wards above, making 28 beds in this portion of the building. In the third block there is one large ward of 18 beds on the ground floor and a similar ward on the upper floor. There is thus a total accommoda- tion of 64 beds independently of the surgical wurds. In addition to these there are attend- sats* rooms, hospital kitchens, lavatories, and all the essentials of a complete modern hospital. Communication from one block to another is provided by covered ways. The building itself is of a very substantial nature and does credit to the architects, Messrs. Leigh & Orange. No expense has been spared to make the institution as perfect as modern medical and surgical science vau make it; the isolution of the wards and the general arrange- ments are alike admirable. About $70,00-1, ex- clusive of the cost of the site which is part of the Taipingsban resumption and was granted free by the Government, has been spent on the new bospital.

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