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The Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 19 wards. 3,085 in- patients and 14,499 out-patients were treated during 1915 as against 2,742 and 13,828 respectively in 1914. 384 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 324 in 1914 and 254 in 1913. But the total cases of malaria for all Government Hospitals and the Tung Wa Hospital shows an increase of 356 cases as compared with the year 1914. The Maternity Hospital contains 12 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 212 confinements occurred during the year as against 261 in 1914. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 41 beds, and during 1915, 158 patients were under treatment there. At Kennedy Town Hospital, which contains 26 beds, 5 cases were treated in 1915, all being small-pex.

(6.)-LUNATIC 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. 201 patients of all races were treated during 1915 and there were 4 deaths.

(c) THE TUNG WA AND OTHER CHINESE HOSPITALS. The Tang Wn Hospital, opened in 1872, is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives an annual grant of 38,000 from the Government. 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 gentlenen annually elected, their appointment being submitted to the Governor for confirmation. Tris 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 beds in the buildings and 4,796 patients were accommodated doring 1915,

The Tung Wa also maintain a branch hospital for small-pox cases (Chinese only) at Kennedy Town. It contains 58 beds and during 1915, 7 cases were treated.

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

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Ho Miu Ling Hospital opened in 1906. The number of in-patients in 1915 was 1,059 and the expenditure $15,787.90. The number of labours in the Maternity Hospital was 428. The Government makes a grant of $300 per annum to these Hospitals.

To avoid the complete seclusion from friends and relatives which removal of Chinese plague patients to the Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital entailed, four District Plague Hospitals are now maintained by the Chinese in various parts of the Colony. These hospitals are under the management of the Chinese Public Dispensaries Committee and receive a grant of $2,000 a year from the Government.

The now Kwong Wa Hospital for Chinese in the Kowloon Peninsula was opened on the 9th October, 1911. It occupies a site having an area of 3 acres and provides accommodation for 210 patients. The existing buildings contain 70 beds and 1,904 The collection of patients were accommodated during 1915. subscriptions and the supervision of the building were undertaken by a special committee under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. The hospital receives a grant of $8,500 per aunum from the Government.

As will be noticed from the remarks made under the heading Education the Hongkong University is an Aided Institution.

VII. INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT. One of the most important institutions in the Colony not sup- ported by the Government is the Matilda Hospital, which stands on commanding site of nearly three acres at Mount Kellet in the Hill District. It consists of a main building containing six wards with 26 bede, 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 18th August, 1899, and who by his will gave the residue of his estate, amounting to more than $2,000,000, în 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 saint- "ed Wife Matilda Lincolne, the same to be called "Matilda Hos- "pital".

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.

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