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I should like to place on record my appreciation of the excellent manner in which the work has been carried out and at the same time to express my indebtedness to Mr. Harris, Chief Accountant of the Chinese Section for his assistance and advice.
At the end of 1916 the Construction Account was closed, and thereafter estimates of expenditure were framed under two main heads, viz, Working Expenses and Special Expenditure. Special Expenditure for the years 1917 to 1924 has now been allocated as between Capital and Revenue, and the portion properly chargeable to Capital is for the first time included in the Capital Account, and the balance, viz., $213,115.84 chargeable to Revenue is carried to Profit and Loss Account. The Special Expenditure for the year 1925 has been allocated between Capital and Revenue, and the portion chargeable to Capital included in the Capital Account while the Revenue items are debited to Operating Expenses.
The Local passenger receipts amounted to $332,268.31, as against $332,942.68 for the previous year, and the goods receipts were $21.762.64, or $2,286.92 less than the previous year.
The Gross Receipts for the year were $130,578.31, as against $420,186.15 for 1924, an increase of $10,392.16.
The operating expenses amounted to $529,901.49. The dis- bursements against the estimate of ordinary working expenses was $504,422.56 and the portion of Special Expenditure properly chargeable to Revenue $14,744.04. Further items amounting to $10,731.89 are included in respect of services rendered and materials supplied by Government departments, also payments by Railway during the year not provided for in the Railway Estimates but charged to Government votes. The working expenses exceeded the Revenue by $99,323.18.
Through and Joint Sectional 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
passengers carried were as
1923. 1924. 1925,
250,719 168,734 16,224*
The Local Passengers carried were as follows:-
Main Line
Fanling Branch Line..
249,152 157,115 16,316*
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1923. 1924. 951,001 1,177,234 1,083,821 73,838 82,505 58,419
1925.
* Lowu bookings not included as formerly.
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VI-GOVERNMENT AND AIDED INSTITUTIONS.
(a)--HOSPITALS.
Government Ilospitals 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. 5,774 in-patients and 30,889 out-patients were treated during 1925 as against 6, 100 and 31,347 respectively in 1924, 1,140 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 1,020 in 1924 and 647 in 1923. The total cases of malaria for all Government Hospitals and the Tung Wa Hospital shows an increase of 40 cases as compared with the year 1924.
The Maternity Hospital contains 9 beds for Europeans, plus 3 extra beds, and 8 for Asiatics. 668 confinements occurred during the year as against 789 in 1924. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 1 beds, and during 1925, 320 patients were under treatment there. At Kennedy Town Hospital, which contains 26 beds, 12 cases were treated in 1925, being infectious,
(b.)-LuxATIC 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. 308 patients of all races were treated during 1925 and there was 9 deaths.
(c)-THE TONG WA AND OTHER Chinese 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 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 confirination. 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 9.133 patients were accommodated during 1925.
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