CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937 — Page 51

No. CONFIDENTIAL.

Gov.

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REOL

1.

751

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG,

21st "ecember, 1936.

5012

2723

Sir,

1037

G. REGY

I have the honour to refer to the

correspondence terminating in the Duke of Levonshire's

despatch No.23 of 2nd February, 1923, and to forward

for your information a copy of a circular letter of

appeal issued by the Committee of the War Memorial

Nursing Home, which has, partly as a result of the depressed conditions of the Colony, become involved

in financial difficulties.

4/5300016

2. As reported in my confidential despatch of

17th November, 1936, it is intended, simultaneously

with the opening of the new Queen Mary Hospital in

the spring of 1937, to close permanently the present

Victoria Hospital as well as the present Government

Civil Hospital. As a result, the War Memorial

Nursing Home (which is actually a hospital rather

than a nursing home) will remain the only hospital

on the Peak and conveniently accessible to Peak

residents. The Matilda Hospital, as you are no

doubt aware, caters only for Europeans of limited

means, and I cannot but think that the public, which

viewed with comparative equanimity the disappearance

of the Victoria Hospital, would view much more

seriously the total disappearance of hospital

facilities from that district.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

W.G.A. ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.,

&C.,

&C.,

&C.