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Of the larger buildings, the Harbour Office and Western Market were completed and the New Law Courts and New Government Offices were under construction. The Gunpowder Depôt, Extension to Staff Quarters Government Civil Hospital, Taipo Quarters, Bacteriological Institute and Volunteer Headquarters were completed. A Branch Post Office in Kowloon and another in Shanghai were completed and a Public Mortuary near Yamati and Time Bull Tower on Blackhead's Hill, Kowloon, were begun. The works of reconstruction of gallies and extension of nullah training were continued, $10,000 being spent on the former and over $16,000 on the latter, A large tank for flushing a portion of the Sewerage System of the City was constructed in Blake Garden, a rifle range for the use of the Volunteer Reserve Association was laid out at the Peak and the extensions of the Waterworks at Lai Chi Kok for the supply of the Shipping were completed.
The Mee Lun Lane Improvement Scheme was undertaken and was well advanced at the close of the year. The system of 100-foot roads in Kowloon was extended; Salisbury Road was opened as far as Robinson Road in connection with the new Star Ferry landing place; a mass of rock was removed to cuable Des Voeux Road to be extended past Messrs. Blackhead's lots and a commencement was made with the removal of the hill North of Yaumati Theatre, the material being used for private reclamation work North of the Naval Coaling Depôt. Some property in Hunghom Village was resumed to admit of further extension of the system. Important extensions of Conduit Road in Easterly and Westerly directions and of the roud past Kowloon City were undertaken, substantial progress being made with both works. The latter road is being further extended to join the military roads which have been constructed in this neighbourhood.
The extension and reconstruction of the Albany Filter Beds was contimed, fair gress being made with the work.
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The work on the Rider Main System was completed in all the districts to which it is intended to apply it.
The total amount expended ou Public Works Extraordinary, exclusive of Rider Mains and other Advance Accounts, was $1,403,868.66 and on works annually recurrent, $393.751.40.
VL-GOVERNMENT 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, the Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital, and the hulk "Hygeia" used mainly for the treatment of Small-pox.
The Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 19 wards. 2,745 in-patients and 16,768 but- patients were treated during the year 1906. 239 cases of Malarial Fever were admitted as against 267 in 1905 and 223 in 1904, The Maternity Hospital contains 6 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiaties. 64 confinements occurred during the year. The Victoria Hospital, at the Peak contains 41 beds. During 1906, 278 patients were under treatment. Kennedy Town Hospital contains 26 beds. In 1906, 78 cases were treated, of which 49 were Plague. On the "Hygeia" 73 cases were treated, of which 66 were Small-pox.
(b.) LUNATIC ASYLUM.
The Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separate, the European portion containing 8 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 184 patients of all races were treated during 1906, and there were 9 deaths.
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(c.) THE TUNG WAN HOSPITAL,
This Hospital, opened in 1872, is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives an annual grant of $6,000 from the Government. Only Chinese are treated in this institution which takes the place of a poor-house and hospital for Chinese sick and destitute, and is administered by an annually-elected body of 15 Chinese directors. Chinese as well as European methods of treatment are employed in accordance with the wishes expressed by the 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.
VIL-INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT.
Among institutions recognised and encouraged but not to any considerable extent sup- ported by Government may be mentioned 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 Regis trar 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 needlework. During 1906, a total of 349 persons were admitted. Of these, 82 were released after enquiry, 8 were released under bond, 106 were placed in charge of their husbands, parents or relations, 3 were placed in charge of the Japanese Consul, 26 were sent to charitable institutions in China, 24 were sent to School, Convent or Refuge, 6 were adopted, 53 were married and 1 died.
The Hongkong College of Medicine was founded in 1897. 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. Ninety-six students have been enrolled up to the end of 1906, and of these 29 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 me- dical science among the Chinese ; and in addition to the employment of certain of the licen- tiates in the public service, the senior students have frequently been made use of for various purposes during epidemics. A Government grant-in-aid of $2,500 is made to the College, to be used as honoraria to the lecturers.
The City Hall receives an annual grant of $1,200 from Government. Reference Library and Museum.
VIII. CRIMINAL AND POLICE,
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The total of all cases reported to the Police was 11,144 being a decrease of 373 or 3.23 per cent, as compared with 1905. In the division of these cases into serious and minor offences there is an increase in the former as compared with the previous year from 2.981 to 3,333, that is of 11.69 per cent., occurring mainly in unlawful possession.
The number of serious offences reported was 408 below the average of the quinquennial period commencing with the year 1902.
1905.
The number of minor offences reported shows a decrease of 722 as compared with
The number of minor offences reported was 324 below the average of the quinquennial period.
The total number of persons committed to Victoria Gaol was 5,799, as compared with 6,227 in 1905, but of these only 2,575 were committed for criminal offences, against 2,816 in 1905. Of committals for non-criminal offences there were 199 less under the Prepared Opium Ordinance and 25 more for infringement of Sanitary Bye-laws.
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