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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.
The Minister of the Union Church.
Four additional members,
The objects for which the hospital is established are:
(a) To provide carry on and maintain a hospital for the benefit of patients primarily who are poor helpless and forsaken and to provide gratuitous medical relieť to any such person suffering from disease or ill- health.
(b) The hospital shall be considered to be established as
a Religions and Evangelistic Institution.
(e) The hospital is reserved for British, American, and
European Patients.
It was the express wish of the Testator that the hospital should be quite self-supporting, and be able to maintain itself, and that it should be absolately unnecessary at any time during the continu- ance of the institution to appeal to the public in any way for funds
for its maintenaner.
Among institutions recognised and encouraged; but not to any considerable extent supported by Government may be mentioned the Pó Leung Kuk, the Eyre Refuge, the City Hall, and the Chinese Public Dispensaries,
The Po Leung Kuk is a Chinese Society founded in 1878 for the suppression of kidnapping and traffic in human beings. It was incorporated in 1893 and is presided over by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and not more than nine directors nominated by the Governor. The actual management is entrusted to a committee elected annually by the members of the Society. The Society's buildings have been declared a Refuge under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance, and almost all women and girls detained by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs under that Ordinance are seit to the Pó Leung Kak. During 1916 the number of persons admitted was 590 and at the close of the year 78 remained under the care of the Society. The inmates are under the impedinte charge of a Chinese matron, and instruction is given them by the nutron and a Chinese teacher in elementary subjects and in needlework.
The Eyre Diocesan Refuge is an institution, under mission auspices, founded for rescue work among the Chinese. It was housed in the Belilios Reformatory up to the outbreak of war, but the work is at present carried on at Kowloon City. A small grant is made by the Government.
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The City Hall receives an annual grant of $1,200 from Government. It contains a theatre, some large rooms which are used for balls, meetings, concerts, etc., a museum in which are some very fair specimens, and a large reference and lending library, to which new volumes are added from time to time, as funds will allow. The building was erected in 1866-9 by subscription.
Small grants are also given to the Italian Convent, the French Convent, (both of which take in and tend abandoned or sick infants), the West Point Orphanage, the Seamen's Hospital, and other charitable institutions.
The Chinese Public Dispensaries are institutions maintained in order to provide the Chinese with the services of doctors, whose certificates will be accepted by the Registrar of Deaths, and with the services of interpreters, who can assist the inmates of houses, where a case of infectious disease has occurred. Coolies are engaged and ambulances and dead vans provided in order to remove cases of in- fectious disease to the Infectious Diseases Hospital and dead bodies to the Mortuary. The Dispensaries receive sick infants and send them to one or other of the Convents and arrange for the burial of dead infants. Free advice and medicine are given and patients are attended at their houses. There are eight Dispensaries in existence; the one for the boat popolation on a halk in Causeway Bay was dispensed with and amalgamated with the Yaumati Dispensary. The total cost of maintenance, which is defrayed by voluntary sub- scription, was $39,766.07 for the year 1916. The Dispensaries are conducted by committees under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
VIII-CRIMINAL AND POLICE.
The total of all enses reported to the Police was 11,319 being an There increase of 1,859 or 1965 per cent as compared with 1915. was in 1916 an increase in serious offences of 396 or 12.68 per cent as compared with the previous year. The number of serious offences reported was 49 over the average of the quinquennial period_com- mencing with the year 1912. The number of minor offences reported shows an increase of 1,306 as compared with 1915 and was 497 over the average of the quinquemial period.
The total strength of the Police Force in 1910 was Europeans 165, Indians 463, Chinese 587, making a total of 1,215 (as compared with 1,289 in 1915) exclusive of the five superior officers and stuff of clerks and coolies. These figures include police paid for by the Railway and other Government Departments. Of this force 14 Europeans, 137 Indians, and 30 Chinese were stationed in the New Territories during the year, under an Assistant Superintendent.
Up to the end of the year forty-one members of the Hong-
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