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The reclamations at the end of Gillies Avenue, Hunghom, and for the market and slaughter house at Aberdeen were completed: the reconstruction and raising of Tai Hang Village was continued; similar work of a more extensive nature at Ap Liu Viilage, near Shamshuipo, was undertaken and the reclamation of the area in front of Kowloon Marine Lots 29 to 31, at Yaumati, was begun.
The work of providing scavenging lanes was contioned, com- pensation being paid where necessary.
The Tytam East or Mount Parker Catchwater was extensively repaired or reconstructed, and a considerable extension of the Shau- kiwan Water Works, for the purpose of augmenting the supply to that village, was undertaken. An 8" water main was substituted for the 3" and 4" previously existing from Porcival Street to the Asiatic J'etroleum Company's Works (Marine Lot 277).
Extensive illuminations of the principal public buildings were carried out on the occasion of the Coronation of His Majesty King George V.
The total amount expended on Public Works Extraordinary tras $1,094,817.93 and on works annually recurrent $486,940.80.
Several typhoons of considerable severity occurred, one of these, which occurred in August, being accompanied by a severe rainstorm, 154 inches of rain falling in two days and causing considerable dam- age to ronds, retaining walls, &c.
Railway.
Little construction work was carried out during 1911 with the exception of building the workshops, erecting machinery and pitch- ing the slopes of No. 1 Cutting. Nothing was done towards the building of the terminal station at Kowloon, but negotiations were carried on for the acquisition of the necessary land and it is anticipat- ed that the work will be put in hand at an early date. A two-foot gange branch line from Fan Ling to Sha Tau Kok, a distance of 7 miles, was commenced in May 1911 and three sections were opened" for traffic on 21st December. The fourth and last section had not been opened at the end of the year.
In October last through traffic between Hongkong and Canton was established but, owing to the disturbances in Chinese Territory, traffe on the Chinese section was suspended at the request of the late Viceroy on November 7th and was not resumed until the 14th of December. Thereafter the traffic to the end of the year was below normal. The local traffic was steady during the rear and receipts were more than was anticipated.
Passengers carried between 5th October and 31st December are as fellow ---
British Section to China,
China to Hongkong and Kowloon,
29,338.
.27,653.
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VL-GOVERNMENT AND AIDED INSTITUTIONS.
(a.) HOSPITALS.
Government Hospitala consist of the Civil liospital, to which is attached an isolated Maternity Hospital, the Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, and the Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital. There is an Observation Station capable of accommodating 1,500 persons in the event of au outbreak of infectious disease on board a ship arriving in the Harbour.
The Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 10 wards. 2,370 in- patients and 15,489 out-patients were treated during 1911 as against 2,644 and 17,759 respectively in 1910. 112 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 340 in 1910 and 188 in 1909. The Maternity Hospital contains 6 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 138 confinements occurred during the year as against 107 in 1910. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 41 beds, and during 1011 309 patients were under treatment there. At Kennedy Town Hospital, which contains 20 beds, 22 cases were treated in 1911, 21 being small-pox.
(b.) Luxari ASYLUM.
The Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separated, the European portion containing 8 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 920 patients of all races were treated during 1911 and there were 14 deaths.
(c)-THE TUNG WA AND OTHER CHISESE HOSPITALS. The Tung Wa Hospital, opened in 1872, is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives an annual grant of $8,000 from the Governoient. Only Chinese are treated in this institution. Various other services not appertaining to a hospital are performed by the institution, such as the free burial of the poor, the repatriation of destitutes, and the organisation of charitable relief in emergencies. Chinese as well as European methods of treatment are employed in accordance with the wishes expressed by the patients or their friends. About half the number are now treated by Western methods. The hospital is managed by a committee of Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appointment being sub- mitted to the Governor for confirmation. It is under the supervision of a visiting physician, who is a member of the Medical Department, whilst a Chinese house surgeon, trained in Western medicine, is a member of the hospital staff. There are 323 bods in the buildings and 3,649 patients were accommodated during 1911.
The Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals are managed and controlled by the missionaries resident in Hongkong, agents of the London Missionary Society, and consist of the Alice Memorial Hospital opened in 1887, the Nethersole Hospital opened in 1893, the Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital opened in 1904 and the Ho Miu Ling Hospital opened in 1908. The number of in-patients in 1911
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