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vans were built for other Government Departments:-
One steel Mail Van for the General Post Office.
One steel van for the Prison Department.
Five steel vans for the Sanitary Department for conveying
meat,
One steel van for the Police Department for carrying
prisoners on the mainland.
One Emergency Lorry for the Fire Brigade Department. The year 1921 has witnessed no change for the better in the prospects of the Railway. The disturbances in Canton and Kwang- tung province, which began in January 1923, continued throughout the whole of the year.
Au attempt was made on September 1st to resume the running of the Slow Through Trains, but this was discontinued after 12 days.
The position as regards the retention of British Sectional rolling stock by the Chinese Section has improved, a number of goods wagons being returned. There are now only 15 wagons held by
the Chinese Section.
The receipts under Through and Joint Sectional Traffic for the year amounted to only $1,922.01, as compared with $153,447.25 for the previous year, and $500,814.90 for 1922, the last year during which traffic was normal,
The Gross Receipts for the year were $420,186.15 as against $474.721.78 for 1923, a decrease of $54,535.63. The suspension for practically the whole year of Through and Joint Sectional Traffic referred to above being alone responsible.
The working expenses exceeded the revenue by $87,628.27.
The Fanling Branch Line Receipts have improved under both heads.
Through and Joint Sectional passengers carried were as
1922. 1923. 1994.
follows:-
Passengers booked at Stations
in British Section to Sta- tions in China including Lowu....
Passengers booked at Stations
in China including Lown
to Stations in British Territory ....
526,111 250,719 168,734
522,909 249,152 157,115
The Local Passengers carried were as follows:-
Main Line
Fanling Branch Line..
1922. 1923. 1924. 639,709 951,001 1,177,234 52,431 73,838 82,505
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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 Diseases Hospital.
The Civil Hospital contains 198 beds in 23 wards. 6,10G in-patients and 31,347 out-patients were treated during 1924 as against. 5,455 and 28,297 respectively in 1923. 1,020 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 047 in 1923 and 484 in 1922. The total cases of malaria for all Government Hospitals and the Tung Wa Hospital shows an inercase of 384 cases as compared with the year 1923. The Maternity Hospital contains 9 beds for Europeans, plus 3 extra beds, and 8 for Asiatics. 789 confinements occurred during the year as against 787 in 1923. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak containe 41 beds, and during 1924, 317 patients were under treatment there. At Kennedy Town Hospital, which contains 26 beds, 27 cases were treated in 1924, being infectious.
(b)-LUNATIO 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 10 beds. 307 patients of all races were treated during 1924 and there was 7 deaths.
(c) THE TONG WA AND OTHER CHINESE HOSPITALS. The Tang Wa Hospital, opened in 1872, 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 in Western medicine, are members of the hospital staff. There are 450 beds in the buildings, and 9,940 patients were accommodated during 1924.
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