CO129-520-10 Tung Wah Eastern Hospital 28-11-1929 - 13-12-1929 — Page 3

No530.

RECEIVED

'14 JAN 1930

COL. OFFICE

My Lord,

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG, 13th December, 1929.

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With reference to my despatch No.453 of

C.2242 November 1st, 1926, I have the honour to inform Your Lordship

that the Tung Wa Eastern Hospital was formally opened by me

on November 27th last. This building, which represents only

the first stage in a more ambitious scheme, was completed

and equipped at a cost of nearly $320,000 of which some

$300,000 were contributed by the Chinese community. Both in

design and workmanship it is a credit to the promoters of

the scheme and the new hospital, besides providing much

needed facilities for medical attention in a quarter of the

city hitherto unprovided with them, should assist in no small

degree in relieving the existing institutions whose capacity

is already overtaxed.

Anad Vel.

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The cost of running the hospital, as estimated

by the Tung Wa Hospital Committee with the assistance and

advice of officers of the Medical Department, is likely to

amount to a sum of about $90,000 per annum. To meet this

expenditure the Directors have in hand a balance of

approximately $140,000; and it is hoped that, with the stimulus afforded by the opening of the hospital, the effort

now to be made to collect further subscriptions to provide

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

LORD PASSFIELD,

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