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VI-GOVERNMENT AND AIDED 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, and the Kennedy Town Infectious Dis- eases Hospital.
The Civil Hospital contains 170 beds in 21 wards. 4,417 in-patients and 25.892 out-patients were treated during 1921 as against 4,815 and 3,026 respectively in 1920, 484 cases of nularial fever were admitted as against 399 in 1921 and 243 in 1920. The total cases of malaria for all Government Hospitals and the Tung Wa Hospital shows un increase of 230 cases as compared with the year 1920). The Maternity Hospital contains 9 beds for Europeans, plus 3 extra beds, and & for Asiaties. 617 confinements occurred during the year as against 613 in 1921. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 41 beds, and during 1922, 178 patients were under treatment there. At Kennedy Town Hospital, which contains 26 beds, 10 cases were treated in 1922, all being infections.
()-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 14 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 235 patients of all races were treated during 1921 and there was 1 death.
(c)-THE TUNG WA AND OTHER CHINESE HOSPITALS.
The Tung Wa Hospital, opened in 1879, is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives an annual grant of $8,000 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, the maintenance of free vernacular schools, 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. Over 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 supervi- sion of a visiting physician, who is a member of the Medical Department, whilst two Chinese house surgeons, trained io Western melicine, are members of the hospital staff. There are 450 bed in the buildings, and 8,336 patients were accommodated during 1922.
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The Tang Wa also maintain a branch hospital for small-pox cases (Chinese only) at Kennedy Town. It contains 60 beds and during 1922, 46 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 Ho Miu Ling Hospital opened in 1906. The number of in-patients in 1922 was 1,667 and the expenditure $54,065.98. The number of labours in the Maternity Hospital was 457. 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.
The Kwong Wa Hospital for Chinese in the Kowloon Peninsula was opened on the 9th October, 1911. It occupies u site having an area of three acres and provides accommodation for 210 patients. The existing buildings contain 244 beda and 5,142 patients were accommodated during 1922. The collection of sub- scriptions and the supervision of the building were undertaken by a special committee ander the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. The hospital receives a grant of $8,500 per unuum from the Government,
As will be noticed from the romarks made under the heading Education the Hongkong University is also 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 a commanding site of nearly three acres at Mount Kellet in the District. Ân account of this hospital will be found in the report for 1917.
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Anong institutious recognised and encouraged, but not to any considerable extent supported by Government may be mentioned the Pó Leong Kak, the Eyre Refuge, the City Hall, and the Chinese Public Dispensaries.
The Pó Leung Kok is a Chinese Society founded in 1878 for the suppression of kidnapping and traffic in human beings. It
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