[ { "id": 362851, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "page_number": 367, "title": "CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5]", "content_text": "Page 363\n\nfor the deal.\n\nI am satisfied with the work of Dr. Chung, who carries out my instructions carefully. Besides treating such patients as elect to come under his care, he makes it his business to persuade the most serious cases, especially surgical, where there is hope of cure or relief to go to hospitals offering better facilities for treatment.\n\nSixty-eight cases were under his own treatment during the quarter, nineteen were transferred to the Government Civil Hospital, two to the Alice Memorial Hospital, three to the Nethersole Hospital and one to the French Convent.\n\nHe keeps two main records: - a general register showing name, address, age, sex, occupation, disease, date and hour of admission, date of discharge, number of days in hospital, result, with spaces for remarks; and a register of cases brought into the mortuary already dead showing name, age, sex, occupation, address, date of death, probable cause of death if no post-mortem examination, cause of death ascertained by post-mortem examination, with spaces for remarks.\n\nHe reports all infectious cases with the addresses from which they have come without delay to the Medical Officer of Health and sends a daily return of deaths to the Registrar General's Office.\n\nHe further maintains a general oversight of the sanitary condition of the hospital buildings and drainage, of the cleanliness of patients, wards, bedding and clothing, and of the ventilation of the wards, and his orders are obeyed without question.\n\n363", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-275 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 363851, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10]", "page_number": 45, "title": "CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10]", "content_text": "## Cases Treated\n\nThe following table shows the number of\n| Male | Female | Total |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| | | 44 |\n| 113 | 16 | 129 |\n| 582 | 73 | 655 |\n| | | 784 |\n| 383 | 41 | 424 |\n| 172 | 29 | 201 |\n| | | 625 |\n| 140 | 19 | 159 |\n\nUnder treatment, 1st April | 113 | 16 | 129\nAdmitted, April-June | 582 | 73 | 655\nTotal number treated | | | 784\nDischarged | 383 | 41 | 424\nDied | 172 | 29 | 201\nTotal | | | 625\nRemaining, 1st July | 140 | 19 | 159\n\nA considerable proportion of those who died were moribund on admission.\n\nIn addition, there were brought in dead to wait for burial the bodies of 94 males and 27 females, 121 in all. In the case of these an approximate diagnosis of the causes of death was made by inspection of the bodies and careful cross-examination of the relatives as to the duration and symptoms of the illness preceding death.\n\nOf the 784 cases treated, 116 were treated by Dr. Chung according to Western methods. Among the cases discharged were 9 sent to Government Civil Hospital, 2 to the Government Lunatic Asylum, 1 to Italian Convent, 2 to Nethersole Hospital and 8 to Kennedy Town Hospital. The last named included 5 cases of small-pox and 3 of bubonic plague. All cases of suspected Plague are isolated in the Receiving Ward, and specimens of the blood sent to Government Civil Hospital for microscopic examination and diagnosis.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-277 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1897 [8-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 365976, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "page_number": 311, "title": "CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3]", "content_text": "305 \n\nHe, along with Dr. Chung and a head coolie as formerly, accompanies me round the Hospital at my morning and afternoon inspections daily, and I am able thus to point out anything not in order at the time and on the spot to the party responsible for it. \n\nAt the beginning of the winter, stoves were placed in the two new surgical wards, and the Directors are now making arrangements for replacing all the fire-places in the other wards by stoves to be placed in the middle of the wards. \n\nI append a table showing the number of cases treated during the quarter, with statistics of the corresponding quarter of 1896. It will be observed that the increased number of patients noted during previous quarters of the past year continues, 995 patients having been under treatment as compared with 875 during the same three months of the year 1896. \n\nOf these 995 cases, 161 were treated by Dr. Chung according to Western methods, and I append a further table showing the diseases that came under his care. Eighteen cases were discharged to be submitted to foreign treatment elsewhere, as follows: - ten to Government Civil Hospital, four to Kennedy Town Hospital, three to the Lunatic Asylum, and one to Nethersole Hospital. \n\nI enclose a copy of minutes made in the visitors...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-281 - Governor Sir Robinson & Acting Governor Major Gen Black - 1898 [1-3].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 373847, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "page_number": 577, "title": "CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12]", "content_text": "Enclosures\n\nNo 11\n\nC.O.\n\n1832\n\n574\n\n17 JAN OC\n\nReport by the Principal Civil Medical Officer.\n\nHonourable Colonial Secretary.\n\nI fail to see the advantages to be derived from\n\nthe appointment of a Lady Doctor in this Colony for the fol-\n\nlowing reasons:\n\n1. The Chinese women do not object to submit\n\nthemselves to treatment by medical men. There is with them\n\nno caste prejudice, as in the case of the native of India\n\nand Ceylon, which absolutely prevents a native woman from\n\neven being seen by a medical man.\n\n2. Chinese and Japanese women readily attend the\n\nout-patient department of this Hospital and of the Alice and\n\nNethersole Hospitals, and not only so but they are by no\n\nmeans reluctant to be admitted as in-patients, the number of\n\nwhich increases every year as the following figures show\n\nNo. of women admitted to Government\n\nCivil Hospital.\n\n1894, 254.\n\n1897, 384.\n\n1898, 411.\n\n3. From an administrative point of view it\n\nwould be much preferable to increase the staff by the addi-\n\ntion of another medical man rather than a Lady Doctor, as\n\nher services would not be available for other work in the\n\nDepartment when necessity arises either from illness or\n\nduring absence on leave.\n\n46\n\n4.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-294 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380075, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4]", "page_number": 317, "title": "CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4]", "content_text": "312 \n\nThe Court considers that the interests of the College would be best served by an annual grant-in-aid, and I am directed to renew the application to the Government in that form. In doing so, I beg permission to place before His Excellency a brief resume of the history and present position of the Institution.\n\nThe College was founded in 1887, largely through the energy and enthusiasm of Dr. Manson, the late Reverend Dr. Chalmers, the late Dr. William Young and Dr. Cantlie, for the purpose of teaching Medicine, Surgery and Midwifery in all their departments, especially to Chinese. It has had its headquarters in the Alice Memorial Hospital, most of the students having been resident in that and the affiliated Nethersole Hospital. Necessary books, models, and other teaching appliances were purchased from funds provided by a grant of $1,000 from the Directors of the Tung Wah Hospital, with certain contributions made by gentlemen interested in the project. The fee for students was fixed at $60 a year, but at first many of the students had to be admitted free, and after a time it was permanently reduced to $40.\n\nTwo scholarships of $60 a year, known as the Watson Scholarships, were established by the late Mr. J. D. Humphreys for a period of ten years, but the sudden death of that gentleman without a renewal of the arrangement", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380076, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4]", "page_number": 318, "title": "CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4]", "content_text": "313 \n\narrangement caused these scholarships to lapse at the end of 1897.\n\nThere are a varying number of Scholarships, at present four, held by students from the Belilios Scholarship Trusts, established by the Honourable E. R. Belilios C.M.G., varying in value from $40 to $100, and tenable for five years.\n\nThere are three Government Scholarships of $40 each, tenable for three years, and open to third year's students not holding any other scholarship.\n\nThe fees and scholarships described constitute the whole resources and endowment of the College.\n\nThe government and the entire control and management of all affairs, concerns, and property connected with the College, are vested in a Court, consisting of the following. The Rector, elected by the General Council and the students conjointly every two years; the Rector's Assessor, nominated by the Rector; the Standing Counsel of the College, appointed by the Court; the Dean, representing the Senate; a representative of the General Council; a representative of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals; and the Secretary appointed by the Court.\n\nThe Rector as Chairman of the Court is the executive head of the College. The successive Rectors since 1887 have been: - The", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380077, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4]", "page_number": 319, "title": "CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4]", "content_text": "## 314 \n\nThe Honourable Frederick Stewart, M.A., L.L.D., Colonial Secretary, His Honour Sir James Russell, C.M.G., Chief Justice, His Honour Sir Fielding Clarke, Chief Justice, and the Honourable J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary.\n\nThe Senate, consisting of the Lecturers of the College, deals, subject to the supervision of the Court, with all matters concerning the courses of study to be pursued, arrangements for professional examinations, and the discipline of the College.\n\nThe General Council is a purely deliberative body, consisting of all persons holding office or appointment in the College, the Licentiates, and Benefactors of the College nominated to the General Council by the Court. It elects a representative to the Court, and also takes part in the election of the Rector.\n\nThe Lecturers are members of the Medical profession practising in the Colony with other gentlemen of scientific training and knowledge, who have hitherto given their services without any remuneration whatever.\n\nThe authorities of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals place certain rooms in these Institutions at the disposal of the College for the purposes of lectures and demonstrations, and allow the teachers and students the use of the wards for purposes of clinical instruction.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 380079, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4]", "page_number": 321, "title": "CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4]", "content_text": "316 \n\nOf the twelve Licentiates three are in the Perak Government Service; three are in private practice in Singapore; one has just had an offer of an appointment with a commencing salary of $150 from the Singapore Government; one is the somewhat notorious Sun Yat Sen, the Chinese Reformer; one was for some years in the Chinese Government Service, and recently returned to Hongkong, where he has been doing plague inspection among the employees of two of the leading firms of the Colony; one is House Surgeon of the Nethersole Hospital; one died of plague a year or two ago, while House Surgeon of the Alice Memorial Hospital; and one was appointed by His Excellency in April of last year to be Chinese Medical Officer in the New Territory, where, the Court understand, he has given satisfaction in the discharge of the duties required of him.\n\nThere is a continuous demand from the Straits Settlements for the diplomates of the College which is evidence of the value attaching to their services where their work has had time to be well tested.\n\nFor years the gentlemen through whose self-sacrificing efforts the work of the College has thus far been carried on were buoyed up by the hope that they would ere long see it firmly established in a home of its own, with the beginnings of a permanent endowment and a permanent staff; but that hope fell to the ground when eventually the inability of the Government...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-304 - Governor Sir Blake - 1901 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 384934, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "page_number": 175, "title": "CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7]", "content_text": "THE DEPARTURE OF THE HON. J. U. STEWART LOCKHART.\n\nFollowing the presentation of the address by the Chinese College of Medicine in the Legislative Council Chamber on Friday afternoon, the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart was on Saturday forenoon made the recipient of addresses from the Chinese community and the Civil Service and in the evening entertained at a banquet given in the City Hall by the Chinese community.\n\nADDRESS FROM CHINESE COMMUNITY.\n\nAt eleven o'clock on Saturday forenoon a great number of Chinese merchants and others assembled in the City Hall to bid farewell to Mr. Lockhart, and present him with an address. The Hon. Wei A Yak presided, and was supported by the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, Mr. Fung Wah Chun, Mr. Lau Chu Pak, Mr. Ho Tung, and others. Mr. Lockhart was accompanied by Mrs. Lockhart, Miss Hancock, and Mrs. Saunders.\n\nDr. HO KAI said—Mr. Lockhart, on behalf of the Chinese community of Hongkong, I have the honour to present you with an address which I will ask you to be kind enough to accept as a small token of their respect, esteem and affection. When the news of your high appointment to Weihaiwei first reached this Colony, none rejoiced more than your Chinese friends, but very soon, however, a feeling of impending loss caused a great shadow to fall over their gladness as they began to realise that ere long they would be forced to part with one whom as an official they are accustomed to treat with respect, and as a friend to regard with affection. The severance of your long connection with Hongkong by your imminent departure therefrom has caused among the Chinese a general feeling of regret, and it is only to a certain extent lessened by the knowledge that you will not be so far away after all, and that you will be chiefly engaged in governing and promoting the welfare of their countrymen in the northern colony. They were also sustained by the hope that some day not very distant, His Majesty the King may be pleased to send you back to Hongkong to occupy the most exalted position in the government of this Colony. (Applause.) Now, sir, we have to bid you farewell, and in so doing we cannot help recalling the past twenty years in which you have been serving the Colony so well and so successfully.\n\nIn 1882, I think it was, sir, you returned from Canton and found Hongkong in a very depressed condition owing to the collapse of the great land speculation that occurred during the previous year, and you found also an embittered feeling between two important sections of the community. Young as you were then, and although holding a minor position in the Government, you at once began to interest yourself earnestly in the welfare of the Colony and endeavoured to promote a better understanding between the Europeans and Chinese.\n\nFor a very few years only did you hold the office of Assistant Colonial Secretary, as your distinguished ability and profound knowledge of Chinese secured you a speedy promotion to the important post of Registrar-General, where you came into close and frequent contact with the Chinese community. It was in this office that the Chinese came directly under your inspiring influence, and it was in the discharge of your duties as Registrar-General and Protector of Chinese that they received so much benefit from your hands. The period of your tenure of this office was marked by great progress among the Chinese and by the adoption of more effective measures for the preservation of order and peace among them. Our leading Chinese citizens, who had hitherto been more or less apathetic to public affairs, came forward in comparatively large numbers and took a keener and more active interest in matters affecting the public weal. They accorded the Government heartier co-operation and support. They gave largely to the various local charitable institutions and took a more active part in their management. You, sir, who reorganised the present District Watchmen force and obtained the appointment of twelve representative Chinese gentlemen as a supervising committee and as an advisory board to the Government. It was you, sir, who remodelled the Po Leung Kuk and placed it in its present permanent and satisfactory position. The noteworthy improvements in the Tung Wah Hospital, which have been effected without in any way interfering with the management by the Chinese, are largely due to you, and all the free hospitals that have been established principally for the treatment of sick Chinese, such as the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals, have had your unremitting and energetic support. You have taken a large share in the suppression of the Triad and other secret societies. You have quietly but effectively and without bloodshed settled many a strike and quelled many a riot caused by the coolie and labouring classes. During the last seven years you have held the office of Colonial Secretary and that of Registrar-General combined, and although your official duties were thus multiplied to an onerous degree, you have never neglected the welfare of the Chinese. On the contrary, you have proved to them that however much you may have been occupied with other duties, you have always had a spare moment to devote to their interests. Finally, as Commissioner of the New Territory you have been successful in establishing order and in bringing to its large native population peace and good government. (Applause.) The Chinese community appreciate fully your kindness to them, and they are most thankful for your solicitude for their welfare. The presentation of this address is a humble and grateful acknowledgement of the many benefits which, in serving your Government faithfully and well, you have been enabled to bestow upon them. In presenting this address, I, sir, cannot help referring to your helpmate, Mrs. Lockhart. Most of us here have received ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-311 - Acting Governor Major Gen Sir Gascoigne - 1902 [5-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387879, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "page_number": 55, "title": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "content_text": "## No. 2/\n## Hongkong, December 1902\n\nSir,\n\n**C. O. 0223**\nGovernment House, Hongkong, 13th January, 1903.\n\n50\n\nI have the honour to transmit for your information the enclosed copy of a report by Dr. Thomson on the results of an inspection of the nullahs of the Western part of the City of Victoria with a view to ascertaining the extent of the prevalence of the larvae of anopheles in this district.\n\nIn paragraph 2 of his report, Dr. Thomson states that in his opinion the training of the nullah above Ripon Terrace, West of the Nethersole Hospital, is the most pressing of all measures for the diminution of malaria in this Colony, and Mr. Tooker of the Public Works Department has estimated the cost involved at $2,400.\n\n3.\n\nThere is no Vote in the Estimates for the current year to meet the cost of training nullahs; for you will remember that, although in your Despatch No. 230 of the 31st of last July you approved of provision being made for a sum of $9,000, it was subsequently not found possible to make the provision, and I informed you to that effect in my Despatch No. 448 of the 8th of last October.\n\n4.\n\nIn view, however, of Dr. Thomson's strong recommendation and of the urgency of this matter, I have the honour to request your sanction for the expenditure of $2,400 during ...\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 387882, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "page_number": 58, "title": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "content_text": "53 \n\nMy present remarks may be read with previous reports in `O.S.O.461/1901` and `C.S.O.415/1901`.\n\n2.\n\nNullah above Ripon Terrace, West of the Nethersole Hospital.\n\nThis nullah is cleaner and better in every way than before, but larvae of Anopheles were to be found sparingly throughout the nullah, and plentifully in the flat portion of it close to the road. Very continuous attention is required here.\n\nThe water oozing from the foot of the retaining wall opposite Rippon Terrace is being quite adequately dealt with. Much of it has been done away with by means of concrete, and where it still continues I was unable to find larvae.\n\nThe training of this nullah is in my estimation the most pressing of all the measures for the diminution of Malaria in this Colony. It is almost entirely responsible for the prevalence of the disease in the Terrace named and in the Chinese Streets below it. It runs close to the Nethersole Hospital, is quite near the Tung Wah Hospital and probably also affects injuriously the Government Civil Hospital, which is not far off.\n\nWhile the training of the larger nullahs with the considerable expenditure involved may reasonably demand much", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 388075, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "page_number": 251, "title": "CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4]", "content_text": "## No. 108\nJongkong.\n\nSir,\n\nYou 29217 285 C.O. 244 13571\n\n**Government House, Hongkong, 5th March, 1903.**\n\nWith reference to Sir William Gascoigne's Despatch No. 254 of the 14th June last, in which he explained the necessity for taking a vote (No. 14) for training certain nullahs in the western portion of the City and exterminating the fever-breeding mosquitoes which were a serious menace to health in that locality, but added that he had given instructions not to proceed with the work (owing to the necessity to reduce expenditure on Public Works), I have the honour to draw your attention to the fact that it was not found possible to avail of your permission to provide for this work in the Estimates for the current year.\n\n1. That the work is still of a very urgent character is shown by the fact that several representations on the subject have been made to the Government by inhabitants of the districts concerned, and at present much difficulty is being met with in letting houses in districts so notoriously unhealthy.\n\n2. For...\n\n3. I have already, in my Despatch No. 21 of the 13th January last, requested your authority for undertaking the training of the nullah above Ripon Terrace, West of the Nethersole Hospital, at an estimated cost of $2,400.\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-316 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [1-4].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390232, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "page_number": 508, "title": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "content_text": "# No. 533\n## Hongkong, October, 1963\n\nI am inclined to think that the loss in 2 cases of hospital which haunted while community.\n\nIn the case of presents; then I don't point out that fed grants for or charitable purposes are more common in other colony, although band is more vathata there than any other. Ask for a statement showing Grants - the purpose - and the estimated value in the last 20 years.\n\nAll of them to consider what kind of restriction should be advocated a positive effort to f... some restriction.\n\nIts statement with an accompany of their views on the subject `CPL. 14` at once expression.\n\n## Hongkong, 2nd November, 1963\n### Government House\n\nI have the honour to transmit for your information a copy of a Petition addressed to me by Dr. Ho Kai, C.M.G., Reverend T. W. Pearce and Dr. R. M. Gibson, praying for the free grant of a certain piece of Crown Land for public and charitable purposes, and to recommend that it be granted.\n\nThe Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals have done much excellent work among the poorer classes of Chinese during recent years, and there is an urgent demand for extension. An opportunity for such extension has presented itself in the generous offer of Mrs. Wa Ting Fang, widow of the late Chinese Minister at Washington and sister of Dr. Ho Kai, to build a new Hospital on a site to be provided; and as the funds of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals do not admit of the purchase of a suitable site, the Board of Management asks the Government to provide one. The site suggested by the Petitioners, adjoining the Nethersole Hospital, is in every way suitable, and the Director of Public Works states that he is not aware of any public purpose to which the ground might be put. Its area is 20,000 Square Feet, and is valued by the Director of Public Works at 50 cents per Square Foot.\n\n**THE RIGHT HONOURABLE \nTHE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES**\n\n### 23 DEC 03\n| Reference | Details |\n| --- | --- |\n| `XCR(85)72` | ... |\n| `GR1178/1922/32(III)` | ... |\n| `€ 57/12` | of hers We Ting Jan's peering proposed `112/170` by M. Collins | \n\n... \n43501", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390234, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "page_number": 510, "title": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "content_text": "# COPY\n\nRespectfully Sheweth,\n\nTo His Excellency Sir Henry Arthur Blake, G.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same.\n\nThe Humble Petition of Thomas William Pearce, Robert MacLean Gibson, and Ho Kai.\n\n1. That Your Petitioner Thomas William Pearce is the Senior Missionary of the London Missionary Society in this Colony; that Your Petitioner Robert Maclean Gibson is a Doctor of Medicine and for some years past has acted as Medical Superintendent of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole hospitals, both situate in the City of Victoria, Hongkong; that Your Petitioner Ho Kai is a Barrister-at-Law and an Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council and is the Founder of the Alice Memorial Hospital aforesaid.\n\n2. That the Alice Memorial Hospital was founded in the year 1887, as a free public hospital, to meet the want of a large section of the Chinese Community, which was desirous of obtaining Western Medical and Surgical advice and assistance, but who was too poor to pay for such assistance and advice and for the necessary medicine and surgical appliances. The said Hospital was established also as a training institute for native students and a short time after its foundation, the College of Medicine for Chinese was inaugurated and instructions in Western Medical science and practice, both clinically and by means of lectures, were and are still imparted within its walls.\n\n3. That five years after the opening of the Alice Memorial Hospital it was found necessary to augment its accommodation, owing chiefly to the greatly increased number of out-door and in-door patients seeking admittance and the steadily increasing number of students undergoing their professional training in its wards and lecture rooms. For this purpose the Nethersole Hospital was built by H. A. Davis, a former member of the local firm of Messieurs Linstead and Davis, and affiliated to the said Alice Memorial hospital in the year 1893.\n\n4. That since the erection of the said Nethersole Hospital and until recently the accommodation afforded by the\n\nPage 510\nPage 511", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 390235, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "page_number": 511, "title": "CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11]", "content_text": "# \n## CHIJN WIJ 1.\n\n***\n\n\n504 \n\n\nthe United Hospitals was found sufficient to meet the demands made upon them; but on account of the considerable increase of the native population during the last few years and by reason of the over-crowded condition of the locality in which the Alice Memorial Hospital is situate, it has become once more necessary for those who have the management of the affairs of the said Hospitals, to arrange for the erection of another building upon a site more suitable to the purposes of a public Hospital and to incorporate it with the existing Hospitals.\n\n5.\n\nThat in the early part of this current month Your Petitioners received a generous offer from one Madame Wu Ting Fang, wife of His Excellency Wu Ting Fang, formerly Chinese Minister to the United States of America, to build a new Hospital upon a site to be provided for by the Board of Management of the said Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals. The new hospital when completed will be affiliated to the said Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals, placed under the same management, and utilized as a Free Public Hospital as well as a Training Institute for medical students.\n\n6.\n\nThat the Board of Management of the above named Hospitals, of which Your Petitioners are the representatives, possesses at present no land which can be utilized for the erection of the new Hospital. Nor has it the necessary funds for the purchase of such land.\n\n7.\n\nThat Your Petitioners are anxious, nevertheless, to secure the munificent offer of Madame Wu Ting Fang for the benefit of the vast Chinese population of Hongkong, and they are desirous to apply for a free grant of a plot of vacant Crown Land, adjoining the Nethersole Hospital, at Bonham Road, amounting to 20,000 Square Feet; the situation, measurements, and boundaries of which are delineated and marked Red on the accompanying plan drawn by John Lean, 8.1.A. one of the authorized Architects practising in this Colony.\n\n8.\n\nThat of late years there was and is an urgent demand in this Colony for more Hospital buildings and accommodations; and the native Tung Wa Hospital quite recently has completed, on lands graciously granted by the Government for the purpose, a New Wing and a Branch Hospital in answer to the call. However, the Charitable Hospitals, where purely European methods of treatment of diseases are in vogue, have not so far succeeded in materially increasing their space and accommodation. The accompanying Memorandum on the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals by Robert MacLean Gibson, one of Your Petitioners, fully indicate the necessity for an immediate extension.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-319 - Governor Sir Blake - 1903 [10-11].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 392298, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "page_number": 317, "title": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "content_text": "; \n\n \n No.\n Lot No.\n Date of Grant\n Area\n EsQmats value\n Purpose for which made\n Remarks\n \n \n 42\n Inland Lot No. 1,709\n 24th, December, 1903\n 20,000 Square ft.\n $11,900\n Granted as a site for Extension to the Alice Memorial & Nethersole Hospitals.\n \n \n \n 43\n Inland Lot No. 1,698\n 16th July, 1903\n 87,244 Square ft.\n $20,700\n Granted to the Asile de la Sainte Enfance as a site for Sanitarium &c., North of the Race Course.\n 315", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 392325, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "page_number": 344, "title": "CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5]", "content_text": "Enclosure 2.\n\nTraining school for Chinese Midwives at the Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital.\n\n1. The course of study to be two years.\n\n2. During the period the students will be housed and boarded at the Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital, the Government paying to the hospital $8 a month for each student.\n\n3. The students to be under the orders of the lady Doctor in charge of the Nethersole Maternity Hospital.\n\n4. At the end of the period of training the students shall be examined by an examining board consisting of the Principal Civil Medical Officer, the Superintendent of the Alice Memorial Hospital and the lady Doctor in charge of the Maternity Hospital and if found competent a certificate shall be granted.\n\n5. After obtaining the certificate the midwives' services shall be at the disposal of the Government for three years at a yearly salary of $25 a month rising by annual monthly increments of $5 a month to $85 a month with quarters; during this time they will live at the Hospital or at some suitable locality approved of by the Government, and attend gratuitously Chinese women in labour under the supervision of the lady Doctor.\n\n6. Rules will be subsequently drawn up for the guidance of the midwives.\n\n7. A register shall be kept of all trained Chinese midwives.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-322 - Acting Governor May - 1904 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 393672, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12]", "page_number": 233, "title": "CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12]", "content_text": "232\n\n... to anoijosé adj ni anoijejë garazsıb adj je of babaejje\n\n„818jiqzon (\"nedrind odd od bannetanenð að lliw\n\n-8012 EsessToni 9¿j,noijsluqoq livið abnsgen 8A (8)\n\n«RJON İLİN 18% leved 8 10 9909Jaixe end of sub 291jibu880 10 2890\n\n.eide79brznoo ad Jon vid\n\n.8\n\n„NOI¿BÚONMOQDA\n\ntaknuow the #ola javed not noijsboaBOO DA\n\n9070) ojar Jug gnied easdoć sonsleû sdð no 101 babivoną od lli*\n\n-:emoiiol 88 Je8d 18* odd ni nekad jɛven 8 Jan1898\n\nSAJ DI 01JZ1x9 noijsko#noco8 9Åð UniSvenoni yå (1)\n\n...................o♬ abad USI aon) jetrgaon løven\n\nOUP.\n\n€\n\n008.\n\n003.\n\n000,1.\n\ndoes abeo WUS to eq118 18jiqzon orj ed♬ aŭ (3)\n\nsardo ed no qu bejfiì sú od ene dord\n\n.001J8J2\n\nni bejounjenos ad of exenak badejal s ml (8)\n\nLIVIŰ JA98019voð sí♬ to bauqqoƆ enj\n\n.....ÍRJIGEON\n\n111* 001289880g dord☐ to 19Jon x891 siJ JA (4)\n\n19LNU VIFJ91092 18100100 sá♬ yd 19xej ed\n\nAI п99uð ed‡ 10 79610 SAJ to ↑ norjseĞ\n\n....8441,190cjoj „dj88 add to ironuo\n\nzjnacznievпoo 701 90 III# injiqzon sid?)\n\n(.8001798 Jon ene Jedd 89280 bas\n\n18301\n\n910090 JI Tew s to senuos edj ni biuoda\n\nJon 111w bas terrups\" ad LLIN DOIJKEỌmmosce naɗjnut jeńj JasbivS\n\n110* JI baelgad non) 2q1d2 18jiq8oń i8noIJIEEB no ga{#osAjno) ed\n\nJOL.\n\n-:8wollo) ze babivong 90\n\n111# nof888280g dord# to 118H (JID SAJ JA (D)\n\n...(78JS9092 (81noloÛ adj yd nowej 90\n\n031\n\nsad no bsjounjenoo ed of ebodajoy ni (s)\n\n„IIBH (JIO 9dj aninrobe EnuoTË JONDI10\n\n-10] [917780)\n\n.023\n\n(.678*\n\nAdministration.\n\n(Brought forward),\n\n(3) In the permanent Stables on the race\n\n.250\n\nCourse in Wong-nei-cheong Valley of\n\nwhich possession will be taken by the Colonial Secretary.\n\nTotal....\n\n.400\n\n.650.\n\nAccommodation for military sick and wounded\n\nwill, as already stated, be provided as laid down in the Defence Scheme. Until, however, the new Hospital above Bowen Road is completed, the Maternity Hospital (12 beds) at the Government Civil Hospital will be made available for seriously ill and wounded Military Officers so that they can have the advantage of female nursing.\n\nAdditional Civil requirements will be met by sending Chinese cases (Police and Destitutes) to the Tung Wah, Alice, and Nethersole Hospitals, and other women and children cases to the Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, keeping only one ward at the Government Civil Hospital for women requiring urgent treatment. The sick and wounded of the Chinese Coolie Corps will be treated at the Tung Wah Hospital.\n\n4.\n\nThe Matshed Annexe hospital for 200 Naval sick and wounded in the Government Civil Hospital compound, the hospital for 200 Naval convalescents and slight cases at the Peak Hotel, and the Military Officers' wards in the present Maternity Hospital will be administered by the Principal Civil Medical Officer who will keep an account of expenditure involved for subsequent adjustment with the Admiralty and War Office.\n\nThe erection of the Matsheds in the Government Civil Hospital Compound and any structural alterations required at the Peak Hotel will be carried out by the Director of Public Works who will keep an account for similar adjustment.\n\nFor the equipment of the Matshed Annexe Hospital...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-324 - Governor Nathan - 1904 [10-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 419974, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "page_number": 520, "title": "CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9]", "content_text": "# \nI have been in the service of this Colony itself since January, 1889, over twenty years. I was previously in charge of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals. I venture to recall that I was specially invited to enter the Government Service, to deal with the state of affairs in the Tung Wa Hospital revealed by the Tung Wa Hospital Commission of 1906, on account of my experience of work among the Chinese. The success of my work in the Tung Wa Hospital may be estimated by a comparison of the institution as it now is, with the institution as described in the Report of that Commission.\n\nIn further support of my claims to favourable consideration, I beg to recall that I was in sole charge of the Plague Hospitals, European and Chinese, for years, including some of the most severe of the Plague epidemics; and also had sole charge of the Cholera Hospital during the Cholera epidemic of 1902 (myself suffering from diarrhoea throughout the epidemic).\n\nMy work on the subject of Malaria in this Colony, voluntarily undertaken and not remunerated in any way, in the years immediately following the discovery of its true causation, which resulted in preventive action by the Government of this Colony before most of the other Colonies of the Empire had awakened to the necessity for such action,- and in one reference, my twelve months research as to the mosquitoes prevalent in this locality, specially mentioned in a despatch from the Secretary of State for the Colonies in October, 1902,-further added to my summer work for a number of years.\n\nIt was in these summers, when I was discharging duties of a specially arduous character in relation to Plague, Cholera, and Malaria, that the diarrhoea tendency was established which has since become chronic, and has this summer been accompanied by the mouth inflamations above referred to.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 432193, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7]", "page_number": 401, "title": "CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7]", "content_text": "# 80\n\nTo His Excellency Sir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and Its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same.\n\nRespectfully sheweth:-\n\n1. The humble petition of the undersigned Herbert Richmond Wells, Robert MacLean Gibson, Ho Kai and Seen Wen Tso.\n\nThat your petitioner Herbert Richmond Wells is the Senior Missionary of the London Missionary Society resident in Hongkong; your petitioner Robert MacLean Gibson is a Doctor of Medicine and Superintendent in charge of the Alice Memorial and its allied Hospitals viz.:- the Nethersole, the Ho Miu Ling Memorial and the Alice Maternity Hospitals, all of which are managed by and subject to the control of the said London Missionary Society; your petitioner Ho Kai is a Barrister-at-Law and the Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council; and your petitioner Sen Wan Tso is a Solicitor practising in this Colony.\n\n2. That during the past decade or more it has been your petitioners' endeavour with the assistance of the Lady Doctor and Matron attached to the said Hospitals to train up Chinese women-nurses and midwives in connection with the Nethersole and the Alice Memorial Maternity Hospitals; and that their exertion in this direction has been successful in supplying this Colony with a number of certificated nurses and midwives.\n\n3. That of late years the number of applications for admission to the Training Institute has greatly increased; while on the other hand the increasing demand on the accommodation...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 432194, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7]", "page_number": 402, "title": "CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7]", "content_text": "# 396\n\n## Vodollsort: Bil \n\nAflood mriol, doineberk ri Juli prolt to quodob ...d ent Jo,pileWquiset pin ular Cid to tak me daktar 17: Jhool! toine and Pas aranoididag muod non ej niex SAJ OG bengdu fondnu is 103004 Jado ni zariybi... coll gelar di Innal sofa end kms Save-www ni letosecons nood aan nudesetih sind ni naidunta Tounkar is nu in vnolol \n\n## accommodation of the said Nethersole and Alice Memorial Maternity Hospitals by Chinese patients makes it imperative to erect new and separate buildings for the housing of the existing students and for the reception of new pupils.\n\n4. That a sum of twelve thousand dollars is being collected by the promoters of the Training Institute for native nurses and midwives for the erection of the necessary buildings, of which amount fully one-half has already been promised, and there is every prospect of obtaining the rest of the subscriptions within a reasonable time.\n\n5. That plans have been prepared by Messrs. Denison, Ram and Gibbs, authorised architects, to carry out the aforesaid scheme; but as there is no suitable site in the neighbourhood of the said Hospitals which could be acquired for the erection of the new quarters, your petitioners venture to approach Your Excellency for a free grant of a certain piece of Crown Land situate at the back of the Ho Miu Ling Hospital (I.L. No. 1709) containing a total area of 6,000 square feet or thereabouts and which is more particularly delineated on one of the plans thereon coloured red.\n\n6. That the new buildings when completed will afford ample accommodation for 24 women-students and living quarters for the Matron in charge of the Institution.\n\n7. That at your petitioners' request a return has been drawn up by the Medical Superintendent of the said Hospitals showing the number of women-students that are going through a three years' course of training and who are being housed either in the Nethersole or the Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital; the number of applicants for admittance but who on account of the want of rooms, has not yet been admitted; and the number of nurses and midwives who have received a full training in the Institute and have obtained Government Certificates granted.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-378 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [6-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 432306, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "page_number": 56, "title": "CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9]", "content_text": "## VI-GOVERNMENT AND AIDED INSTITUTIONS\n\n### (a) HOSPITALS\n\nGovernment 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. There is an Observation Station capable of accommodating 1,500 persons in the event of an outbreak of infectious disease in a ship arriving in the Harbour.\n\nThe Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 19 wards. 2,014 in-patients and 17,759 out-patients were treated during 1910. 340 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 188 in 1909 and 279 in 1908. The Maternity Hospital contains 6 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 107 confinements occurred during the year. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 41 beds. During 1910, 344 patients were under treatment. Kennedy Town Hospital contains 26 beds. In 1910, 19 cases were treated, 9 being Small-pox.\n\n### (b) LUNATIC ASYLUM\n\nThe Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separated, the European portion containing 8 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 195 patients of all races were treated during 1910 and there were 9 deaths.\n\n### (c) THE TUNG WAH AND OTHER CHINESE HOSPITALS\n\nThis 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, 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. About half the number are now treated by Western methods. The Hospital is managed by a Committee of Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appointment being submitted to the Governor for confirmation. It is under the supervision of a visiting physician who is a member of the Medical Department, whilst a Chinese house surgeon trained in Western medicine is a member of the hospital staff.\n\n## 17\n\nThe Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals are managed and controlled by the missionaries resident in Hongkong, agents of the London Missionary Society. They 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 1910 was 1,253 and the expenditure $12,600. The number of labours in the Maternity Hospital was 244. The Government makes a grant of $300 per annum to these Hospitals.\n\nTo avoid the complete seclusion from friends and relatives which a removal of Chinese Plague patients to the Kennedy Town Infectious Diseases Hospital entailed, three District Plague Hospitals are now maintained by the Chinese in various parts of the Colony and a fourth is being built. They are under the management of the Chinese Public Dispensaries Committee and receive a grant of $2,000 a year from the Government.\n\nThe erection of the new Kwong Wah hospital for Chinese in the Kowloon Peninsula is complete, all but the servants' quarters. It occupies a site having an area of 3 acres and as designed will ultimately provide accommodation for 210 patients. The existing buildings contain accommodation for 70 patients. The collection of subscriptions and the supervision of the building were undertaken by a special committee under the chairmanship of the Registrar General, but when completed the hospital will form part of the Tung Wah Hospital and be under the same management. This hospital will receive a grant of $8,500 per annum from the Government.\n\n## VII-INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT\n\nAmong institutions recognised and encouraged but not to any considerable extent supported by Government may be mentioned the Po Leung Kuk, the Eyre Refuge, the Hongkong College of Medicine, the City Hall, and the Chinese Public Dispensaries.\n\nThe Po Leung Kuk is a Chinese Society founded in 1878 for the suppression of kidnapping and traffic in human beings. It was incorporated in 1893 and is presided over by the Registrar General and not more than nine directors nominated by the Governor. The actual management is entrusted to a committee elected annually by the members of the Society.\n\nThe Society's buildings have been declared a Refuge under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance and almost all women and girls detained by the Registrar General under that Ordinance are sent to the Po Leung Kuk. During 1910 the number of persons admitted was 504 and at the close of the year 46 remained under the care of the Society. The inmates are under the immediate charge of a Chinese matron and instruction is given them by the matron and a Chinese teacher in elementary subjects and in needlework.\n\nThe Eyre Diocesan Refuge is an institution under mission auspices founded for rescue work among the Chinese. It is now housed in the Belilios Reformatory and receives a small grant from the Government and also a contribution from the Po Leung Kuk.\n\n16 \n\nThe health of the staff and the workmen engaged during construction was good.\n\nThe Section was opened for Public Traffic on the 1st October and the takings to the end of December have been $33,980.35.\n\nThe Expenditure against the Loan Account during the year was approximately $1,965,338.50, making a total to end of 1910 of $11,884,127.76.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-379 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [8-9].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 438246, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "page_number": 15, "title": "CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8]", "content_text": "The reclamations at the end of Gillies Avenue, Hunghom, and for the market and slaughter house at Aberdeen were completed: the reconstruction and raising of Tai Hang Village was continued; similar work of a more extensive nature at Ap Liu Village, near Shamshuipo, was undertaken and the reclamation of the area in front of Kowloon Marine Lots 29 to 31, at Yaumati, was begun.\n\nThe work of providing scavenging lanes was continued, compensation being paid where necessary.\n\nThe Tytam East or Mount Parker Catchwater was extensively repaired or reconstructed, and a considerable extension of the Shaukiwan Water Works, for the purpose of augmenting the supply to that village, was undertaken. An 8\" water main was substituted for the 3\" and 4\" previously existing from Percival Street to the Asiatic Petroleum Company's Works (Marine Lot 277).\n\nExtensive illuminations of the principal public buildings were carried out on the occasion of the Coronation of His Majesty King George V.\n\nThe total amount expended on Public Works Extraordinary was $1,094,817.93 and on works annually recurrent $486,940.80.\n\nSeveral typhoons of considerable severity occurred, one of these, which occurred in August, being accompanied by a severe rainstorm, 15.4 inches of rain falling in two days and causing considerable damage to roads, retaining walls, &c.\n\nRailway.\n\nLittle construction work was carried out during 1911 with the exception of building the workshops, erecting machinery and pitching the slopes of No. 1 Cutting. Nothing was done towards the building of the terminal station at Kowloon, but negotiations were carried on for the acquisition of the necessary land and it is anticipated that the work will be put in hand at an early date. A two-foot gauge branch line from Fan Ling to Sha Tau Kok, a distance of 7 miles, was commenced in May 1911 and three sections were opened for traffic on 21st December. The fourth and last section had not been opened at the end of the year.\n\nIn October last through traffic between Hongkong and Canton was established but, owing to the disturbances in Chinese Territory, traffic on the Chinese section was suspended at the request of the late Viceroy on November 7th and was not resumed until the 14th of December. Thereafter the traffic to the end of the year was below normal. The local traffic was steady during the year and receipts were more than was anticipated.\n\nPassengers carried between 5th October and 31st December are as follows:\n\nBritish Section to China, 29,338.\n\nChina to Hongkong and Kowloon, 27,653.\n\nVL-GOVERNMENT AND AIDED INSTITUTIONS.\n\n(a.) HOSPITALS.\n\nGovernment 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. There is an Observation Station capable of accommodating 1,500 persons in the event of an outbreak of infectious disease on board a ship arriving in the Harbour.\n\nThe Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 10 wards. 2,370 in-patients and 15,489 out-patients were treated during 1911 as against 2,644 and 17,759 respectively in 1910. 112 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 340 in 1910 and 188 in 1909. The Maternity Hospital contains 6 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 138 confinements occurred during the year as against 107 in 1910. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 41 beds, and during 1911 309 patients were under treatment there. At Kennedy Town Hospital, which contains 20 beds, 22 cases were treated in 1911, 21 being small-pox.\n\n(b.) LUNATIC ASYLUM.\n\nThe Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separated, the European portion containing 8 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 920 patients of all races were treated during 1911 and there were 14 deaths.\n\n(c.) THE TUNG 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, 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. About half the number are now treated by Western methods. The hospital is managed by a committee of Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appointment being submitted to the Governor for confirmation. It is under the supervision of a visiting physician, who is a member of the Medical Department, whilst a Chinese house surgeon, trained in Western medicine, is a member of the hospital staff. There are 323 beds in the buildings and 3,649 patients were accommodated during 1911.\n\nThe 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 1908. The number of in-patients in 1911 ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-391 - Acting Governor Claud Severn Governor Sir May - 1912 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 448538, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-412 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [7-8]", "page_number": 244, "title": "CO129-412 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [7-8]", "content_text": "Extract from the H.K. Daily Press of 23rd July, 1914, Page 9\n\n236 LATE SIR KAI HO KAI\n\nAT THE HAPPY VALLEY.\n\nThe funeral of the late Sir Kai Ho Kai, M.D., took place at the Protestant Cemetery, Happy Valley, last evening, and was a manifestation of sincere sympathy. A very large number of European and Chinese residents assembled to pay their last tribute, and these formed in procession behind the mourners.\n\nAt the grave there were over twenty pall-bearers, namely, Messrs. Li Yuk Tong, U Siu Yuen Fai, Yung Sing Kiu, Kwok Siu Lau, Mok Kam Cheung, Li Po Kwai, Ng Kwok Hing, Tam Pak Siu, Chan Kang U, Yung Sai Ngan, Chan Han, P. K. Kwok, Leung Hing Kwai, Cheung Sum Woo, Chan Chen Fan, Lam Heung Sun, Kam Tie Hing, Fung Pak Hung, and Leung Heung Tin, and Drs. Thomas, Jew Hawk, Au Shi Cham, and Kwan Sui Yin.\n\nThe Rev. T. W. Pearce, of the London Missionary Society, who was a great personal friend of the deceased, and was associated with him in many of his philanthropic, charitable and educational works, conducted the service in the small Church at the Cemetery, and also officiated at the graveside.\n\nThere were over 300 wreaths, sent by all sections of the community. Among them were tributes from H.E. Sir Henry May, the Order of the K.C.M.G., the Hongkong Legislative Council, Tung Wah Hospital, Po Leung Kuk, District Watchmen's Committee, Chinese Club, Hongkong Chamber of Commerce, Chinese Chamber of Commerce, China Merchants Steam Navigation Co., Chinese Y.M.C.A., St. Stephen's College, St. Paul's College, Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals.\n\nMany telegrams from various parts of China, and letters from prominent residents in the Colony have been received by Lady Ho Kai, expressing sympathy.\n\nAmong those present at the graveside were H.E. Sir Henry May (Governor), Sir Paul Chater, C.M.G., Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, C.M.G., Hon. Mr. A. F. Churchill, Hon. Mr. C. McIntosh (Captain Superintendent of Police), Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., Hon. Mr. Hewett, C.M.G., and Hon. Mr. Lau Tak Fak. Members of the Bench and Bar, including Hon. Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz (Chief Justice), Mr. Justice Hazeland (Puisne Judge), Mr. J. H. Kemp (Attorney-General), Mr. J. R. Wood (First Magistrate), Messrs. J. F. Sharp, K.C., Eldon Potter, Easter, and F. C. Jenkin; Lieut. Barnett, Dr. Voretszch (General Officer Commanding), members of the Hongkong University, Dr. Francis Clark, Kerr, Messrs. T. K. Dealy, R. O. P. Borrow, D. W. Tratman, Lee Jones, King, T. F. Claxton, and A. P. Professor Digby and Mr. A. C. H. Smith (representing Hongkong University), Capt. Mears, W. L. Pattenden, J. Rodger, Grist, H. K. Woo (representing Mr. Hall Brutton's office), A. H. Vaughan, and Miss Rayner (Matron, Maternity Hospital).\n\nNearly all the leading Chinese were either present in person or were represented, together with the Directorates of the Tung Wah Hospital, the Po Leung Kuk, and the District Watchmen's Committee. Several district watchmen attended in uniform.\n\nA large number of students from the University and St. Stephen's College were also present.\n\nTRIBUTES FROM THE BAR AND BENCH.\n\nAt the Supreme Court yesterday, a striking tribute was paid to the esteem in which the deceased Knight was held by the Bench and Bar.\n\nThe Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K.C., said:—My Lords, I hope I may be permitted, as senior member of the Bar, and speaking on behalf of both branches of the legal profession, to add a few words to those which have just fallen from the learned Attorney-General.\n\nThe late Sir Kai Ho Kai, for many years, both directly and indirectly, influenced the statute law which your Lordships and the Courts of this Colony administer. For several years he was a member of the Hongkong Bar. The fact of that membership is the occasion of my addressing you now, and my object in doing so is to express, on behalf of the members of the Bar and the officers of the legal departments of this Colonial Service, their deep regret and grief at his death.\n\nWhen I first arrived in the Colony in 1888, Sir Kai Ho Kai was still actively engaged in the profession of a barrister, and I can well remember the keenness and activity and ability which he displayed in the conduct of the various cases in which he was engaged.\n\nOf late years he has seldom appeared in the Courts, but confined his energies almost entirely to matters of public interest in the Colony. For several years upon the Legislative Council, I can bear witness to the patience and diligence which he brought to bear upon the study of the various measures brought forward by the Government from time to time with a view to amendment and improvement.\n\nHis record of services rendered in the Colony, covering so many fields of varied public interests, is one of which any man might well be proud, and it is only fitting that we should testify on this occasion to the fact that he devoted the best of his strength during the best years of his life to the promotion of measures for the public interest and for the public welfare of the Colony.\n\nThe Hon. Attorney-General said:—The occasion of this sitting of the Court is one that we might have hoped would be long deferred, for in the ordinary course of things Sir Kai Ho Kai might well have looked forward to many more years of life and usefulness.\n\nThe Chief Justice:-We are gathered together to-day to do honour to the memory of a distinguished member of our profession. After an academic career of the most brilliant promise, he was admitted to the Bar of this Colony in 1882, and had he desired he would undoubtedly have attained to the highest eminence in the career he had chosen.\n\nBut the history of our profession abounds with instances of the disinterestedness of its sons. Sir Kai Ho Kai felt that the world had claims upon him, and he devoted himself with an admirable single-mindedness to the services of his fellow men.\n\nHis labours on behalf of this Colony, the land of his adoption, were recognised by His Majesty the King, who conferred upon him not only the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, but also the dignity of Knighthood.\n\nHe worked for many years for the regeneration of his native land, and those responsible for the destinies of China have freely availed themselves of his sagacious and broad-minded counsel, and his eminent moderation and common-sense.\n\nPage 237", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-412 - Governor Sir May - 1914 [7-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 461804, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "page_number": 437, "title": "CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6]", "content_text": "## VII. INSTITUTIONS\n\n### (6.) LUNATIC ASYLUM\n\nThe Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separated, the European portion containing 8 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 201 patients of all races were treated during 1915 and there were 4 deaths.\n\n### (c) THE TUNG WA AND OTHER CHINESE HOSPITALS\n\nThe Tung Wa Hospital, opened in 1872, is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of Chinese, but receives an annual grant of $38,000 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, 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. About half the number are now treated by Western methods. The hospital is managed by a committee of Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appointment being submitted to the Governor for confirmation. It is under the supervision of a visiting physician, who is a member of the Medical Department, whilst a Chinese house surgeon, trained in Western medicine, is a member of the hospital staff. There are 323 beds in the buildings and 4,796 patients were accommodated during 1915.\n\nThe Tung Wa also maintain a branch hospital for small-pox cases (Chinese only) at Kennedy Town. It contains 58 beds and during 1915, 7 cases were treated.\n\nThe 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 1915 was 1,059 and the expenditure $15,787.90. The number of labours in the Maternity Hospital was 428. The Government makes a grant of $300 per annum to these Hospitals.\n\nTo 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 and receive a grant of $2,000 a year from the Government.\n\nThe new Kwong Wa Hospital for Chinese in the Kowloon Peninsula was opened on the 9th October, 1911. It occupies a site having an area of 3 acres and provides accommodation for 210 patients. The existing buildings contain 70 beds and 1,904 patients were accommodated during 1915. The collection of subscriptions and the supervision of the building were undertaken by a special committee under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. The hospital receives a grant of $8,500 per annum from the Government.\n\n## VII. INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT\n\nOne of the most important institutions in the Colony not supported by the Government is the Matilda Hospital, which stands on a commanding site of nearly three acres at Mount Kellet in the Hill District. It consists of a main building containing six wards with 26 beds, quarters for four nurses, a house for the Medical Officer in charge and an operation block. A Maternity Ward, connected by a covered way with the main building, is in course of erection. The total cost of the buildings and their equipment has been more than $600,000. The hospital was erected in pursuance of the directions of the late Mr. Granville Sharp, who died on the 18th August, 1899, and who by his will gave the residue of his estate, amounting to more than $2,000,000, in trust \"for the erection and maintenance of a Hospital at Mount Kellet in this Colony to the Glory of God, and the good of men; in loving memory of his sainted Wife Matilda Lincolne, the same to be called 'Matilda Hospital'\".\n\nThe management of the hospital is vested in a Governing Body consisting of:\n\n| Members |\n| --- |\n| The Trustees for the time being of the will of the Testator. |\n| The Bishop of the Diocese. |\n| The Chaplain of St. John's Cathedral. |\n\nPage 24\nPage 25\nPage 430", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-433 - Governor Sir May - 1916 [5-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 467976, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "page_number": 280, "title": "CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6]", "content_text": "# VI-GOVERNMENT AND AIDED INSTITUTIONS\n\n## (a.)-HOSPITALS\n\nGovernment 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. There is an Observation Station capable of accommodating 1,500 persons in the event of an outbreak of infectious disease on board a ship arriving in the Harbour.\n\nThe Civil Hospital contains 150 beds in 19 wards. 3,058 in-patients and 12,620 out-patients were treated during 1916 as against 3,085 and 14,199 respectively in 1915. 360 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 384 in 1915 and 324 in 1914. But the total cases of malaria for all Government Hospitals and the Tung Wa Hospital shows an increase of 684 cases as compared with the year 1915. The Maternity Hospital contains 12 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 259 confinements occurred during the year as against 212 in 1915. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 41 beds, and during 1916, 201 patients were under treatment there. At Kennedy Town Hospital, which contains 26 beds, 30 cases were treated in 1916, all being small-pox.\n\n## (b)-LUNATIC ASYLUM\n\nThe Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separated, the European portion containing 8 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 237 patients of all races were treated during 1916 and there were 8 deaths.\n\n## (c)-TUNG WA AND OTHER CHINESE HOSPITALS\n\nThe 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, 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. About half the number are now treated by Western methods. The hospital is managed by a committee of Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appointment being submitted to the Governor for confirmation. It is under the supervision 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 323 beds in the buildings and 5,480 patients were accommodated during 1916.\n\nThe Tung Wa also maintain a branch hospital for small-pox cases (Chinese only) at Kennedy Town. It contains 58 beds and during 1916, 171 cases were treated.\n\nThe 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 1916 was 1,731 and the expenditure $14,901.52. The number of labours in the Maternity Hospital was 550. The Government makes a grant of $300 per annum to these Hospitals.\n\nTo 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 and receive a grant of $2,000 a year from the Government.\n\nThe new Kwong Wa Hospital for Chinese in the Kowloon Peninsula was opened on the 9th October, 1911. It occupies a huge site having an area of acres and provides accommodation for 210 patients. The existing buildings contain 70 beds and 2,490 patients were accommodated during 1916. The collection of subscriptions and the supervision of the building were undertaken by a special committee under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. The hospital receives a grant of $8,500 per annum from the Government.\n\n## VII-INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT\n\nOne of the most important institutions in the Colony not supported by the Government is the Matilda Hospital, which stands on a commanding site of nearly three acres at Mount Kellet in the Hill District. It consists of a main building containing six wards with 26 beds, quarters for four nurses, a house for the Medical Officer in charge, and an operation block. A Maternity Ward is connected by a covered way with the main building and was completed during 1916. The total cost of the buildings and their equipment has been more than $600,000. The hospital was erected in pursuance of the directions of the late Mr. Granville Sharp, who died on the 16th August, 1899, and who by his will gave the residue of his estate, amounting to more than $2,000,000, in trust \"for the erection and maintenance of a Hospital at Mount Kellet in this Colony to the Glory of God, and the good of men; in loving memory of his sainted Wife Matilda Lincolne, the same to be called 'Matilda Hospital'.\"\n\nPage 21\n\n...\n\nPage 278", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 476767, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "page_number": 583, "title": "CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6]", "content_text": "# Table showing the number of Vaccinations performed in the Colony from December 13th., 1916, to March 31st., 1917.\n\nCity of Victoria:-\n| Institution | Number of Vaccinations |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sanitary Board's Staff | 148,165 |\n| Government Civil Hospital | 5,960 |\n| Alice Memorial Hospital | 6,912 |\n| Nethersole Hospital | 2,320 |\n| Tung Wa Hospital | 10,463 |\n| | **25,655** |\n| Chinese Public Dispensary | |\n| ‣ Central | 6,999 |\n| ‣ Eastern | 7,502 |\n| ‣ Western | 8,835 |\n| ‣ Shaukiwon | 5,424 |\n| | **28,760** |\n| St. John's Ambulance Brigade | |\n| ‣ Sai Ying Poon Division | 12,062 |\n| ‣ Young Men's Christian Association Division | 5,741 |\n| ‣ Victoria Division | 3,988 |\n| ‣ Police Reserve Division | 2,683 |\n| ‣ Queen's College Division | 1,996 |\n| | **26,470** |\n| **Total for Victoria** | **229,050** |\n\nKowloon:-\n| Institution | Number of Vaccinations |\n| --- | --- |\n| Sanitary Board's Staff | 58,073 |\n| Kwong Wah Hospital | 3,769 |\n| Hunghom Chinese Public Dispensary | 3,701 |\n| Yaumati & Harbour Chinese Public Dispensary | 18,095 |\n| Shum Shui Po Chinese Public Dispensary | 4,495 |\n| Kowloon City Chinese Public Dispensary | 1,276 |\n| | **31,336** |\n| | **89,409** |\n\n**Grand Total** | **318,459**\n| --- | --- |\nVaccination from January 1st. to December 12th., 1916. | 12,396\nTotal during the epidemic | **330,855**", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 480038, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "page_number": 455, "title": "CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6]", "content_text": "## VII. INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT\n\n### (c)-THE TUNG WA AND OTHER CHINESE HOSPITALS\n\nThe 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, 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. About half the number are now treated by Western methods. The hospital is managed by a committee of Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appointment being submitted to the Governor for confirmation. It is under the supervision 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 323 beds in the buildings and 6,562 patients were accommodated during 1918.\n\nThe Tung Wa also maintain a branch hospital for small-pox cases (Chinese only) at Kennedy Town. It contains 58 beds and during 1918, 5 cases were treated.\n\nThe 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 1918 was 1,593 and the expenditure $23,128.76. The number of labours in the Maternity Hospital was 543. The Government makes a grant of $300 per annum to these Hospitals.\n\nTo 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.\n\nThe new Kwong Wa Hospital for Chinese in the Kowloon Peninsula was opened on the 9th October, 1911. It occupies a site having an area of 3 acres and provides accommodation for 210 patients. The existing buildings contain 70 beds and 2,336 patients were accommodated during 1918. The collection of subscriptions, and the supervision of the building were undertaken by a special committee under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. The hospital receives a grant of $8,500 per annum from the Government.\n\nAs will be noticed from the remarks made under the heading Education, the Hongkong University is an Aided Institution.\n\n### VII. INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT\n\nOne of the most important institutions in the Colony not supported by the Government is the Matilda Hospital, which stands on a commanding site of nearly three acres at Mount Kellet in the Hill District. An account of this hospital will be found in the report for 1917.\n\nAmong institutions recognised and encouraged, but not to any considerable extent supported by Government may be mentioned the Po Leung Kuk, the Eyre Refuge, the City Hall, and the Chinese Public Dispensaries.\n\nThe Po Leung Kuk is a Chinese Society founded in 1878 for the suppression of kidnapping and traffic in human beings. It was incorporated in 1898 and is presided over by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and not more than nine directors nominated by the Governor. The actual management is entrusted to a committee elected annually by the members of the Society. The Society's buildings have been declared a Refuge under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance, and almost all women and girls detained by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs under that Ordinance are sent to the Po Leung Kuk. During 1918 the number of persons admitted was 356 and at the close of the year 53 remained under the care of the Society. The inmates are under the immediate charge of a Chinese matron, and instruction is given them by the matron and a Chinese teacher in elementary subjects and in needlework.\n\nThe Eyre Diocesan Refuge is an institution, under mission auspices, founded for rescue work among the Chinese. It was housed in the Belilios Reformatory up to the outbreak of war, but the work is at present carried on at Kowloon City. A small grant is made by the Government.\n\nThe City Hall receives an annual grant of $1,200 from Government. It contains a theatre, some large rooms which are used for balls, meetings, concerts, etc., a museum in which are some very fair specimens, and a large reference and lending library, to which new volumes are added from time to time, as funds will allow. The building was erected in 1866-9 by subscription.\n\nSmall grants are also given to the Indian Convent, the French Convent, (both of which take in and tend abandoned or sick infants), the West Point Orphans, the Seamen's Hospital, and other charitable institutions.\n\nThe Chinese Public Dispensaries are institutions maintained in order to provide the Chinese with the services of doctors, whose certificates will be accepted by the Registrar of Deaths, and with the services of interpreters, who can assist the inmates of houses, where a case of infectious disease has occurred. Coolies are engaged and ambulances and dead vans provided in order to remove cases of infectious disease to the Infectious Diseases Hospital and dead bodies to the Mortuary. The Dispensaries receive sick infants and send... \n\n- 24- \n- 25 - \n451", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-454 - Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1919 [4-6].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 484532, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10]", "page_number": 394, "title": "CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10]", "content_text": "6. Employment or experience from completion of education to present time\n\nMention each position held by you, the dates between which you held it, and the cause of leaving; what salary, if any, you are now receiving.\n\n7. Professional qualifications (if any), and the date at which each was obtained. Any military experience you had should be stated.\n\n5 years' service as House Surgeon.\n\n1908 to 1910.\n\n2 years as Assistant to Dr. P. B. B. Ayres.\n\nAssistant (Chemist) Ophthalmic Department, Government Civil Hospital.\n\nAssistant to Dr. J. Bell Fry.\n\nTime at Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals.\n\nHong Kong Medical College.\n\nJanuary 1912 to present time.\n\nAssistant Harbour Master and Medical Inspector of Emigrants, Port of Singapore.\n\nJuly 1912 to present time.\n\n$800 per month.\n\nIntending to leave.\n\nMB, BS, Cantab.\n\nD.P.H.\n\nHere, with a note of any certificates, etc., obtained.\n\n8. Referees\n\nGive the names and addresses of two referees. They should be responsible persons who know you well, either in private life or in business; and one at least should be well acquainted with you in private life. The names of distinguished persons should not be given unless they really know you well; and the names of relatives or of those from whom you send testimonials should not be given.\n\n9. Testimonials.\n\nBachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Cantab. January 1905.\n\nDiploma of Public Health. October 1911.\n\nAssistant Surgeon, Superintendent, St. George's Hospital, Hong Kong.\n\n1. Name: Colonel W. W. Ogilvy\n\nAddress: Late Inspector General of Hospitals.\n\nOccupation: \n\n2. Name: Arthur J. H. Teesdale\n\nAddress: Colonial Secretary's Office.\n\nOccupation: Colonial Marine Engineer.\n\nGive on the opposite page the name, address, and occupation of the writer of each of your testimonials. Not more than six should be submitted, and they should as far as possible cover each stage of your career from the commencement onwards. The original testimonials and copies thereof should be sent. The former will be inspected. Copies may be in MS., in print, or typewritten; and it is desirable that they should be on paper not larger than this form. Should the writer of a testimonial prefer to send it direct to the Secretary, there is no objection to his doing so.\n\nFeb 29th 1920.\n\nPrevious Paper.\n\nSubsequent Paper.\n\n53752\n\n382\n\nHONG KONG\n\nRECO\n\nREA 2 NL.201\n\n53752.\n\nPension to Men 7. Fisher\n\nSanitary Inspector\n\nLabour grant of £221 p.a. payable legally in dollars at current rate of exchange, from 15th Oct to 30th incl.\n\nOn certificate.\n\n84.5.\n\nSh & 4) W.I. 14185/2* Gp. 163 28,000 8.20 W & 5 (W B & L)\n\n4-11-20.\n\nAt once MP\n\n4.11", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-462 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1920 [7-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487112, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "page_number": 86, "title": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "content_text": "## VI. GOVERNMENT AND AIDED INSTITUTIONS\n\n### (a.)-HOSPITALS\n\nGovernment 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. There is an Observation Station capable of accommodating 1,500 persons in the event of an outbreak of infectious disease on board a ship arriving in Harbour.\n\nThe Civil Hospital contains 166 beds in 20 wards. 3,926 in-patients and 22,446 out-patients were treated during 1919 as against 3,677 and 14,480 respectively in 1918. 218 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 211 in 1918 and 361 in 1917. The total cases of malaria for all Government Hospitals and the Tung Wa Hospital shows an increase of 246 cases as compared with the year 1918.\n\nThe Maternity Hospital contains 12 beds for Europeans and 4 for Asiatics. 46 confinements occurred during the year as against 377 in 1918. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 41 beds, and during 1919, 206 patients were under treatment there. At Kennedy Town Hospital, which contains 26 beds, 54 cases were treated in 1919, all being infectious.\n\n### (b.) LUNATIC ASYLUM\n\nThe Asylum is under the direction of the Superintendent of the Civil Hospital. European and Chinese patients are separated, the European portion containing 8 beds in separate wards and the Chinese portion 16 beds. 207 patients of all races were treated during 1919 and there were 8 deaths.\n\n### (C.) THE TUNG WA AND OTHER CHINESE HOSPITALS\n\nThe Tung Wa Hospital, opened in 1872, is mainly supported by the voluntary subscriptions of the 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, 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. About half the number are now treated by Western methods. The hospital is managed by a committee of Chinese gentlemen annually elected, their appointment being submitted to the Governor for confirmation. It is under the supervision 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 323 beds in the buildings and 7,002 patients were accommodated during 1919.\n\nThe Tung Wa also maintain a branch hospital for small-pox cases (Chinese only) at Kennedy Town. It contains 58 beds and during 1919, 4 cases were treated.\n\nThe 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 1919 was 1,395 and the expenditure $27,570.42. The number of labours in the Maternity Hospital was 403. The Government makes a grant of $300 per annum to these Hospitals.\n\nTo 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.\n\nThe new Kwong Wa Hospital for Chinese in the Kowloon Peninsula was opened on the 9th October, 1911. It occupies a site having an area of three acres and provides accommodation for 210 patients. The existing buildings contain 70 beds and 3,313 patients were accommodated during 1919. The collection of subscriptions and the supervision of the building were undertaken by a special committee under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. The hospital receives a grant of $8,500 per annum from the Government. As will be noticed from the remarks made under the heading Education, the Hongkong University is also an Aided Institution.\n\n## VII.-INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT\n\nOne of the most important institutions in the Colony not supported by the Government is the Matilda Hospital, which stands on a commanding site of nearly three acres at Mount Kellet in the Hill District. An account of this hospital will be found in the report for 1917.\n\nAmong institutions recognised and encouraged, but not to any considerable extent supported by Government may be mentioned the Po Leung Kuk, the Eyre Refuge, the City Hall, and the Chinese Public Dispensaries.\n\nThe Po Leung Kuk is a Chinese Society founded in 1878 for the suppression of kidnapping and traffic in human beings. It was incorporated in 1893 and is presided over by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and not more than nine directors nominated by the Governor. The actual management is entrusted to a committee elected annually by the members of the Society. The Society's buildings have been declared a Refuge under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance, and almost all women and girls detained by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs under that Ordinance are sent to the Po Leung Kuk. During 1919 the number of persons admitted was 476 and at the close of year 62 remained under the care of the Society. The inmates are under the immediate charge of a Chinese matron, and instruction is given them by the matron and a Chinese teacher in elementary subjects and in needlework.\n\nThe Eyre Diocesan Refuge is an institution under mission auspices, founded for rescue work among the Chinese. It was housed in the Belilios Reformatory up to the outbreak of war, but the work is at present carried on at Kowloon City. A small grant is made by the Government.\n\nThe City Hall receives an annual grant of $1,200 from Government. It contains a theatre, some large rooms which are used for balls, meetings, concerts, etc., a museum in which are some very fair specimens and a large reference and lending library, to which new volumes are ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 487129, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "page_number": 103, "title": "CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5]", "content_text": "# VII - INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT\n\nOne of the most important institutions in the Colony not supported by the Government is the Matilda Hospital, which stands on a commanding site of nearly three acres at Mount Kellet in the Hill District. An account of this hospital will be found in the report for 1917.\n\nAmong institutions recognised and encouraged, but not to any considerable extent supported by Government may be mentioned the Pó Leung Kuk, the Eyre Refuge, the City Hall, and the Chinese Public Dispensaries.\n\n## Pó Leung Kuk\n\nThe Pó Leung Kuk is a Chinese Society founded in 1878 for the suppression of kidnapping and traffic in human beings. It was incorporated in 1893 and is presided over by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and not more than nine directors nominated by the Governor. The actual management is entrusted to a committee elected annually by the members of the Society. The Society's buildings have been declared a Refuge under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance, and almost all women and girls detained by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs under that Ordinance are sent to the Pó Leung Kuk. During 1910 the number of persons admitted was 476 and at the close of the year 62 remained under the care of the Society. The inmates are under the immediate charge of a Chinese matron, and instruction is given them by the matron and a Chinese teacher in elementary subjects and in needlework.\n\n## Eyre Diocesan Refuge\n\nThe Eyre Diocesan Refuge is an institution, under mission auspices, founded for rescue work among the Chinese, housed in the Belilios Reformatory up to the outbreak of war, but the work is at present carried on at Kowloon City. A small grant is made by the Government.\n\n## City Hall\n\nThe City Hall receives an annual grant of $1,200 from Government. It contains a theatre, some large rooms which are used for balls, meetings, concerts, etc., a museum in which are some very fair specimens, and a large reference and lending library, to which new volumes are added from time to time, as funds will allow. The building was erected in 1866-9 by subscription.\n\n## Other Institutions\n\nSmall grants are also given to the Italian Convent, the French Convent (both of which take in and tend abandoned or sick infants), the West Point Orphanage, the Seamen's Hospital, and other charitable institutions.\n\n## Chinese Public Dispensaries\n\nThe Chinese Public Dispensaries are institutions maintained in order to provide the Chinese with the services of doctors, whose certificates will be accepted by the Registrar of Deaths, and with the services of interpreters, who can assist the inmates of houses, where a case of infectious disease has occurred. Coolies are engaged and ambulances and dead vans provided in order to remove cases of infectious disease to the Infectious Diseases Hospital and dead bodies to the Mortuary. The Dispensaries receive sick infants and send them to one or other of the Convents and arrange for the burial of dead infants. Free advice and medicine are given and patients are attended at their houses. There are eight Dispensaries in existence. The total cost of maintenance was $45,303.83 for the year 1919. The Government makes an annual grant of $7,000, and the rest of the cost is defrayed by voluntary subscription. The Dispensaries are conducted by committees under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.\n\n## Hospitals\n\nThe Tung Wa Hospital is managed by a committee of Chinese directors, with the assistance of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and the Superintendent of the Medical Department, whilst two Chinese house surgeons, trained in Western medicine, are members of the hospital staff. There are 323 beds in the buildings and 7,002 patients were accommodated during 1919.\n\nThe Tung Wa also maintain a branch hospital for small-pox cases (Chinese only) at Kennedy Town. It contains 58 beds and during 1919, 4 cases were treated.\n\nThe 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 Min Ling Hospital opened in 1906. The number of in-patients in 1919 was 1,395 and the expenditure $27,570.42. The number of labours in the Maternity Hospital was 403. The Government makes a grant of $300 per annum to these Hospitals.\n\nTo 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.\n\nThe new Kwong Wa Hospital for Chinese in the Kowloon Peninsula was opened on the 9th October, 1911. It occupies a site having an area of three acres and provides accommodation for 210 patients. The existing buildings contain 70 beds and 3,313 patients were accommodated during 1919. The collection of subscriptions and the supervision of the building were undertaken by a special committee under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. The hospital receives a grant of $8,500 per annum from the Government.\n\n## CRIMINAL AND POLICE\n\nThe total of all cases reported to the Police was 10,540 being an increase of 2,003 or 23.47 per cent. as compared with 1918. There was in 1919 an increase in serious offences of 958 or 26.77 per cent. as compared with the previous year.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-467 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1921 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 488620, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "page_number": 361, "title": "CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12]", "content_text": "## Page 26\n\nSheklung and Shek Ha was damaged 4 days later, also on the 14th the track was broken in the neighbourhood of Shek Ha, and, as the unsettled conditions continued until the end of October, the morning down and the afternoon up through expresses did not run from October the 6th, until the 2nd of November; and the afternoon down, and the morning up expresses were cancelled between the 24th of October and the 1st of November.\n\nThe running of the two slow through trains had to be discontinued for 10 days during this period; and it was not until the 2nd November, that the full train service was resumed.\n\nThe Local Traffic Earnings have improved. The receipts amounted to $194,041.14 against $179,434.14 or $14,607.00 more than the previous year, the increase being under passenger receipts. In May, it was decided that the Railway should discontinue its custom of debiting other departments for the transport of Government passengers travelling on duty and other services rendered, and accordingly the sum of $4,577.77 is not included in the Railway earnings.\n\nThrough and Joint Sectional Traffic Receipts were $318,345.37 an increase of $10,017.63 when compared with 1919.\n\nThe Gross Receipts for the year were $520,176.10 as against $490,092.77 for 1919 an increase of $30,083.33.\n\nThe balance after paying working expenses stands at $33,032.06. The Through and Joint Sectional Passengers carried were as follows:\n\n| Passengers booked by Stations in British Territory to Stations in China | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| | 307,401 | 344,716 | 365,005 |\n| Passengers booked by Stations in China to Stations in British Territory | 323,842 | 354,699 | 373,776 |\n| | 296,379 | 345,314 | 392,206 |\n| | 45,187 | 48,917 | 47,787 |\n\nThe Local Passengers carried were as follows:\n\n| | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Main line | | | 392,206 |\n| Fanling Branch | | | 47,787 |\n\n## VL-GOVERNMENT AND AIDED INSTITUTIONS\n\n### (a.) HOSPITALS\n\n**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. There is an Observation Station capable of accommodating 1,500 persons in the event of an outbreak of infectious disease on board a ship arriving in the Harbour.\n\n## Page 27\n\nThe Civil Hospital contains 168 beds in 21 wards. 4,701 in-patients and 31,100 out-patients were treated during 1920 as against 3,926 and 22,148 respectively in 1919. 243 cases of malarial fever were admitted as against 218 in 1919 and 211 in 1918. The total cases of malaria for all Government Hospitals and the Tung Wa Hospital shows an increase of 240 cases as compared with the year 1918. The Maternity Hospital contains 9 beds for Europeans and 8 for Asiatics. 452 confinements occurred during the year as against 460 in 1919. The Victoria Hospital at the Peak contains 41 beds, and during 1920, 208 patients were under treatment there. At Kennedy Town Hospital, which contains 20 beds, 51 cases were treated in 1920, all being infectious.\n\n### (b).—LUNATIC ASYLUM\n\nThe 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 18 beds. 224 patients of all races were treated during 1920 and there were 3 deaths.\n\n### (c.) THE TUNG WA AND OTHER CHINESE HOSPITALS\n\nThe 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 submitted to the Governor for confirmation. It is under the supervision 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 330 beds in the buildings, and 7,301 patients were accommodated during 1920.\n\nThe Tung Wa also maintain a branch hospital for small-pox cases (Chinese only) at Kennedy Town. It contains 60 beds and during 1920, 6 cases were treated.\n\nThe 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 1901, and the Ho Miu Ling Hospital opened in 1908. The number of in-patients in 1920 was 1,740 and the expenditure $24,475.50. The number of labours in the Maternity Hospital was 447. The Government makes a grant of $300 per annum to these Hospitals.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-469 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1921 [9-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 492735, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "page_number": 88, "title": "CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12]", "content_text": "- 34 -\n\nHospital 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 1921 was 1,681 and the expenditure $52,252.03. The number of labours in the Maternity Hospital was 450. The Government makes a grant of $300 per annum to these Hospitals.\n\nTo 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.\n\nThe Kwong Wa Hospital for Chinese in the Kowloon Peninsula was opened on the 9th October, 1911. It occupies a site having an area of three acres and provides accommodation for 210 patients. The existing building contains 70 beds and 4,480 patients were accommodated during 1921. The collection of subscriptions and the supervision of the building were undertaken by a special committee under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. The hospital receives a grant of $8,500 per annum from the Government.\n\nAs will be noticed from the remarks made under the heading Education, the Hongkong University is also an Aided Institution.\n\nVII.—INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT.\n\nOne of the most important institutions in the Colony not supported by the Government is the Matilda Hospital, which stands on a commanding site of nearly three acres at Mount Kellet in the Hill District. An account of this hospital will be found in the report for 1917.\n\nAmong institutions recognised and encouraged, but not to any considerable extent supported by Government may be mentioned the Po Leung Kuk, the Eyre Refuge, the City Hall, and the Chinese Public Dispensaries.\n\nThe Po Leung Kuk is a Chinese Society founded in 1878 for the suppression of kidnapping and traffic in human beings. It was incorporated in 1893 and is presided over by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and not more than nine directors nominated by the Governor. The actual management is entrusted to a committee elected annually by the members of the Society. The Society's buildings have been declared a Refuge under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance, and almost all women and girls detained by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs under that Ordinance are sent to the Po Leung Kuk. During 1921 the number of persons admitted was 355 and at the close of the year 42 remained under the care of the Society. The inmates are under the immediate charge of a Chinese matron, and instruction is given them by the matron and a Chinese teacher in elementary subjects and in needlework.\n\n- 35 -\n\nThe Eyre Diocesan Refuge is an institution, under mission auspices, founded for rescue work among the Chinese. It was housed in the Belilios Reformatory up to the outbreak of war, but the work is at present carried on at Kowloon City. A small grant is made by the Government.\n\nThe City Hall receives an annual grant of $1,200 from Government. It contains a theatre, some large rooms which are used for balls, meetings, concerts, etc., a museum in which are some very fair specimens, and a large reference and lending library, to which new volumes are added from time to time, as funds will allow. The building was erected in 1866-9 by subscription.\n\nSmall grants are also given to the Italian Convent, the French Convent, (both of which take in and tend abandoned or sick infants), the West Point Orphanage, the Seamen's Hospital, and other charitable institutions.\n\nThe Chinese Public Dispensaries are institutions maintained in order to provide the Chinese with the services of doctors, whose certificates will be accepted by the Registrar of Deaths, and with the services of interpreters, who can assist the inmates of houses, where a case of infectious disease has occurred. Coolies are engaged and ambulances and dead vans provided in order to remove cases of infectious disease to the Infectious Diseases Hospital and dead bodies to the Mortuary. The Dispensaries receive sick infants and send them to one or other of the Convents and arrange for the burial of dead infants. Free advice and medicine are given and patients are attended at their houses. There are eight Dispensaries in existence. The total cost of maintenance was $39,505 for the year 1920. The Government makes an annual grant of $7,000, and the rest of the cost is defrayed by voluntary subscription. The Dispensaries are conducted by committees under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.\n\nVIII. CRIMINAL AND POLICE.\n\nThe total of all cases reported to the Police was 12,242 being an increase of 330 or 2.77 per cent, as compared with 1920. There was in 1921 a decrease in serious offences of 856 or 17.17 per cent, as compared with the previous year. The number of serious offences reported was 2 below the average of the quinquennial period commencing with the year 1917. The number of minor offences reported shows an increase of 1,186 as compared with 1920 and was 1,713 over the average of the quinquennial period.\n\n19\n\n87", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 495373, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "page_number": 43, "title": "CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12]", "content_text": "Tung Wah Hospital Statistics,\n\nThe number of patients at end of 1921 was 33\n\nThe number of patients admitted during 1922 was 514\n\nThe number of patients who died during 1922 was 30\n\nThe Nethersole Hospital,\n\nThe number of patients remaining at end of 1921 was 12\n\nThe number of patients admitted during 1922 was 594\n\nThe number of patients who died during 1922 was 35\n\nThe Alice Memorial Hospital.\n\nThe number of patients remaining at end of 1921 was ...\n\nThe number of patients admitted during 1922 was 474\n\nThe number of patients who died during 1922 was ...\n\n- 35 -\n\nTable II - CASES OF NOTIFIABLE DISEASES RECORDED IN EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR 1922.\n\n \n \n Typhoid Fever\n Paratyphoid Fever\n Small-pox\n Cholera\n Diphtheria\n \n \n \n European\n Chinese\n Others\n European\n Chinese\n Others\n European\n Chinese\n Others\n European\n Chinese\n Others\n European\n Chinese\n Others\n \n \n January.\n \n 13\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1\n \n \n \n February.\n \n 23\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n March.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n April.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n May.\n \n 5\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n June.\n \n 31\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n July.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 234\n 29\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n August.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n September.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n October.\n \n 13\n 3\n \n \n \n \n *19\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Total, 1922,\n 1\n 1174\n 1,181\n 1\n 149\n 150\n 6\n \n \n 20\n 22\n \n 100\n 139\n 75\n \n \n Total, 1921.\n \n 115\n 19\n \n 1x\n 17\n \n 14\n \n \n 27\n \n \n 41\n 79\n \n\n \n \n Scarlet Fever\n Relapsing Fever\n Typhus Fever\n Cerebro-Spinal Fever\n Puerperal Fever\n \n \n \n European\n Chinese\n Others\n European\n Chinese\n Others\n European\n Chinese\n Others\n European\n Chinese\n Others\n European\n Chinese\n Others\n \n \n Total, 1922,\n 3\n 24\n 1\n \n 6\n \n \n \n \n \n 204\n 22\n \n \n \n \n \n Total, 1921.\n \n THO\n 191\n \n 6\n 20\n \n 10\n \n \n 71\n 47\n $\n M5\n 3\n \n\n \n \n Yellow Fever\n Rabies\n \n \n \n European\n Chinese\n Others\n Persons\n Dogs\n \n \n Total for 1922,\n \n \n \n \n 31\n \n \n Total for 1921,\n \n \n \n \n 36\n \n\nPage 35\n\n \nThe returns relate to philanthropic institutions and have been included in this report as in former years.\n\n \n Total for 1922\n 129\n 827\n 537\n 376\n 106\n \n \n Total for 1921\n 42\n 117\n 138\n [I]\n 126\n \n \n \n 30\n 24\n 25\n 40\n 38\n \n \n \n \n BN\n 35\n \n \n \n \n \n Ni\n 5\n NI\n 53\n 122\n \n \n \n 125\n 3\n Ni\n 1.717\n 763\n \n \n \n \n 1\n 40", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-481 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1923 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497577, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "page_number": 263, "title": "CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7]", "content_text": "# VI-GOVERNMENT AND AIDED INSTITUTIONS\n\n## (a)- HOSPITALS\n\nGovernment 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.\n\nThe 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 malarial 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 an increase of 230 cases as compared with the year 1920. The Maternity Hospital contains 9 beds for Europeans, plus 3 extra beds, and 8 for Asiatics. 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 infectious.\n\n## (b)-LUNATIC ASYLUM\n\nThe 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.\n\n## (c)-THE TUNG WA AND OTHER CHINESE HOSPITALS\n\nThe 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 submitted to the Governor for confirmation. It is under the supervision 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 8,336 patients were accommodated during 1922.\n\nThe Tung 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nTo 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.\n\nThe Kwong Wa Hospital for Chinese in the Kowloon Peninsula was opened on the 9th October, 1911. It occupies a site having an area of three acres and provides accommodation for 210 patients. The existing buildings contain 244 beds and 5,142 patients were accommodated during 1922. The collection of subscriptions and the supervision of the building were undertaken by a special committee under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. The hospital receives a grant of $8,500 per annum from the Government.\n\nAs will be noticed from the remarks made under the heading Education, the Hongkong University is also an Aided Institution.\n\n# VII. INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT\n\nOne of the most important institutions in the Colony not supported by the Government is the Matilda Hospital, which stands on a commanding site of nearly three acres at Mount Kellet in the District. An account of this hospital will be found in the report for 1917.\n\nAmong institutions recognised and encouraged, but not to any considerable extent supported by Government may be mentioned the Po Leung Kuk, the Eyre Refuge, the City Hall, and the Chinese Public Dispensaries.\n\nThe Po Leung Kuk is a Chinese Society founded in 1878 for the suppression of kidnapping and traffic in human beings.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-484 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [1-7].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 497951, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "page_number": 122, "title": "CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12]", "content_text": "## Institutions Supported by Government\n\nThe Tung Wa also maintain a branch hospital for small-pox cases (Chinese only) at Kennedy Town. It contains 60 beds and during 1923, 229 cases were treated.\n\nThe Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals are managed and controlled by a General Committee consisting of subscribers and supporters of these institutions, and an Executive Committee consisting of representatives of the London Missionary Society and members of the General Committee.\n\nThe Affiliated Hospitals at present consist of the Alice Memorial Hospital Dispensary, temporarily replacing the Alice Memorial Hospital which was sold in 1921, the Nethersole Hospital, opened in 1893, the Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital opened in 1904, and the Ho Miu Ling Hospital opened in 1906.\n\nThe number of Inpatients in 1923 was 1,623, and the number of Outpatients, 15,892.\n\nThe total Expenditure was $57,934.22. The number of Labours in the Maternity Hospital in 1923 was 456. The Government grant to these Hospitals is $2,000.00 and a special grant is made to the Maternity Hospital of $300.00.\n\nThe Kwong Wa Hospital for Chinese in the Kowloon Peninsula was opened on the 9th October, 1911. It occupies a site having an area of three acres and provides accommodation for 210 patients. The existing buildings contain 244 beds and 6,039 patients were accommodated during 1923. The collection of subscriptions and the supervision of the building were undertaken by a special committee under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. The hospital receives a grant of $8,500 per annum from the Government.\n\n## Institutions Not Supported by Government\n\nOne of the most important institutions in the Colony not supported by the Government is the Matilda Hospital, which stands on a commanding site of nearly three acres at Mount Kellet in the Hill District. An account of this hospital will be found in the report for 1917.\n\nAmong institutions recognised and encouraged, but not to any considerable extent supported by Government may be mentioned the Po Leung Kuk, the Eyre Refuge, the City Hall, and the Chinese Public Dispensaries.\n\nThe Po Leung Kuk is a Chinese Society founded in 1878 for the suppression of kidnapping and traffic in human beings. It was incorporated in 1893 and is presided over by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and not more than twelve directors nominated by the Governor. The actual management is entrusted to a committee elected annually by the members of the Society. The Society's buildings have been declared a Refuge under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance, and almost all women and girls detained by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs under that Ordinance are sent to the Po Leung Kuk. During 1923 the number of persons admitted was 393 and at the close of the year 66 remained under the care of the Society. The inmates are under the immediate charge of a Chinese matron, and instruction is given them by the matron and a Chinese teacher in elementary subjects and in needlework.\n\nThe Eyre Diocesan Refuge is an institution, under mission auspices, founded for rescue work among the Chinese. It was housed in the Belilios Reformatory up to the outbreak of war, but the work is at present carried on at Kowloon City. A small grant is made by the Government.\n\nThe City Hall receives an annual grant of $1,200 from Government. It contains a theatre, some large rooms which are used for balls, meetings, concerts, etc., a museum in which are some very fair specimens, and a large reference and lending library, to which new volumes are added from time to time, as funds will allow. The building was erected in 1866-9 by subscription.\n\nSmall grants are also given to the Italian Convent, the French Convent, (both of which take in and tend abandoned or sick infants), the West Point Orphanage, the Seamen's Hospital, and other charitable institutions.\n\nThe Chinese Public Dispensaries are institutions maintained in order to provide the Chinese with the services of doctors, whose certificates will be accepted by the Registrar of Deaths, and with the services of interpreters, who can assist the inmates of houses where a case of infectious disease has occurred.\n\nCoolies are engaged and ambulances and dead vans provided in order to remove cases of infectious disease to the Infectious Diseases Hospital and dead bodies to the Mortuary. The Dispensaries receive sick infants and send them to one or other of the Convents and arrange for the burial of dead infants. Free advice and medicine are given and patients are attended at their houses. There are eight Dispensaries in existence. The total cost of maintenance was $47,984 for the year 1923. The Government makes an annual grant of $12,000, and the rest of the cost is defrayed by voluntary subscription. The Dispensaries are conducted by committees under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-485 - Governor Sir Stubbs - 1924 [8-12].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502497, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "page_number": 188, "title": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "content_text": "30\n\nThe Tung Wa also maintain a branch hospital for small-pox cases (Chinese only) at Kennedy Town. It contains 70 beds and during 1924, 147 cases were treated.\n\nThe Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals are managed and controlled by a General Committee consisting of subscribers and supporters of these institutions, and an Executive Committee consisting of representatives of the London Missionary Society and members of the General Committee.\n\nThe Affiliated Hospitals at present consist of the Alice Memorial Hospital Dispensary, temporarily replacing the Alice Memorial Hospital which was sold in 1921, the Nethersole Hospital, opened in 1893, the Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital opened in 1904, and the Ho Min Ling Hospital opened in 1906.\n\nThe number of Inpatients in 1924 was 1,712, and the number of Outpatients, 13,504.\n\nThe total Expenditure was $58,133.93. The number of Labours in the Maternity Hospital in 1924 was 524. The Government grant to these Hospitals is $2,000.00 and a special grant is made to the Maternity Hospital of $300.00.\n\nThe Kwong Wa Hospital for Chinese in the Kowloon Peninsula was opened on the 9th October, 1911. It occupies a site having an area of three acres and provides accommodation for 210 patients. The existing buildings contain 211 beds and 6,688 patients were accommodated during 1924. The collection of subscriptions and the supervision of the building were undertaken by a special committee under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. The hospital receives a grant of $8,500 per annum from the Government.\n\nVII.—INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT.\n\n31\n\nOne of the most important institutions in the Colony not supported by the Government is the Matilda Hospital, which stands on a commanding site of nearly three acres at Mount Kellet in the Hill District. An account of this hospital will be found in the report for 1917.\n\nAmong institutions recognised and encouraged, but not to any considerable extent supported by Government may be mentioned the Po Leung Kuk, the Eyre Refuge, the City Hall, and the Chinese Public Dispensaries.\n\nThe Po Leung Kuk is a Chinese Society founded in 1878 for the suppression of kidnapping and traffic in human beings. It was incorporated in 1893 and is presided over by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and not more than twelve directors nominated by the Governor. The actual management is entrusted to a committee elected annually by the members of the Society. The Society's buildings have been declared a Refuge under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance, and almost all women and girls detained by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs under that Ordinance are sent to the Po Leung Kuk. During 1924 the number of persons admitted was 412 and at the close of the year 69 remained under the care of the Society. The inmates are under the immediate charge of a Chinese matron, and instruction is given them by the matron and a Chinese teacher in elementary subjects and in needlework.\n\nThe Eyre Diocesan Refuge is an institution, under mission auspices, founded for rescue work among the Chinese, housed in the Belilios Reformatory up to the outbreak of war, but the work is at present carried on at Kowloon City. A small grant is made by the Government.\n\nThe City Hall receives an annual grant of $1,200 from Government. It contains a theatre, some large rooms which are used for balls, meetings, concerts, etc., a museum in which are some very fair specimens, and a large reference and lending library, to which new volumes are added from time to time, as funds will allow. The building was erected in 1866-9 by subscription.\n\nSmall grants are also given to the Italian Convent, the French Convent, (both of which take in and tend abandoned or sick infants), the West Point Orphanage, the Seamen's Hospital, and other charitable institutions.\n\nThe Chinese Public Dispensaries are institutions maintained in order to provide the Chinese with the services of doctors, whose certificates will be accepted by the Registrar of Deaths, and with the services of interpreters, who can assist the inmates of houses, where a case of infectious disease has occurred.\n\nCoolies are engaged and ambulances and dead vans provided in order to remove cases of infectious disease to the Infectious Diseases Hospital and dead bodies to the Mortuary. The Dispensaries receive sick infants and send them to one or other of the Convents and arrange for the burial of dead infants. Free advice and medicine are given and patients are attended at their houses. There are eight Dispensaries in existence. The total cost of maintenance was $62,738 for the year 1924. The Government makes an annual grant of $12,000, and the rest of the cost is defrayed by voluntary subscription. The Dispensaries are conducted by committees under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.\n\n183", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 502515, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "page_number": 206, "title": "CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5]", "content_text": "30 -- \n\nThe Tung Wa also maintain a branch hospital for small-pox cases (Chinese only) at Kennedy Town. It contains 70 beds and during 1924, 147 cases were treated.\n\nThe Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals are managed and controlled by a General Committee consisting of subscribers and supporters of these institutions, and an Executive Committee consisting of representatives of the London Missionary Society and members of the General Committee.\n\nThe Affiliated Hospitals at present consist of the Alice Memorial Hospital Dispensary, temporarily replacing the Alice Memorial Hospital which was sold in 1921, the Nethersole Hospital, opened in 1893, the Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital opened in 1904, and the Ho Miu Ling Hospital opened in 1906.\n\nThe number of Inpatients in 1924 was 1,712, and the number of Outpatients, 13,504.\n\nThe total Expenditure was $58,133.93. The number of Labours in the Maternity Hospital in 1924 was 524. The Government grant to these Hospitals is $2,000.00 and a special grant is made to the Maternity Hospital of $300.00\n\nThe Kwong Wa Hospital for Chinese in the Kowloon Peninsula was opened on the 9th October, 1911. It occupies a site having an area of three acres and provides accommodation for 210 patients. The existing buildings contain 211 beds and 4,688 patients were accommodated during 1924. The collection of subscriptions and the supervision of the building were undertaken by a special committee under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. The hospital receives a grant of $8,500 per annum from the Government.\n\nVII.-INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT.\n\nOne of the most important institutions in the Colony not supported by the Government is the Matilda Hospital, which stands on a commanding site of nearly three acres at Mount Kellet in the Hill District. An account of this hospital will be found in the report for 1917.\n\nAmong institutions recognised and encouraged, but not to any considerable extent supported by Government may be mentioned the Po Leung Kuk, the Eyre Refuge, the City Hall, and the Chinese Public Dispensaries.\n\n31-\n\nThe Po Leung Kuk is a Chinese Society founded in 1878 for the suppression of kidnapping and traffic in human beings. It was incorporated in 1893 and is presided over by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and not more than twelve directors nominated by the Governor. The actual management is entrusted to a committee elected annually by the members of the Society. The Society's buildings have been declared a Refuge under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance, and almost all women and girls detained by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs under that Ordinance are sent to the Po Leung Kuk. During 1924 the number of persons admitted was 412 and at the close of the year 60 remained under the care of the Society. The inmates are under the immediate charge of a Chinese matron, and instruction is given them by the matron and a Chinese teacher in elementary subjects and in needlework.\n\nThe Eyre Diocesan Refuge is an institution, under mission auspices, founded for rescue work among the Chinese. housed in the Belilios Reformatory up to the outbreak of war, but the work is at present carried on at Kowloon City. A small grant is made by the Government.\n\nThe City Hall receives an annual grant of $1,200 from Government. It contains a theatre, some large rooms which are used for balls, meetings, concerts, etc., a museum in which are some very fair specimens, and a large reference and lending library, to which new volumes are added from time to time, as funds will allow. The building was erected in 1868-9 by subscription.\n\nSmall grants are also given to the Italian Convent, the French Convent, (both of which take in and tend abandoned or sick infants), the West Point Orphanage, the Seamen's Hospital, and other charitable institutions.\n\nThe Chinese Public Dispensaries are institutions maintained in order to provide the Chinese with the services of doctors, whose certificates will be accepted by the Registrar of Deaths, and with the services of interpreters, who can assist the inmates of houses, where a case of infectious disease has occurred.\n\nCoolies are engaged and ambulances and dead vans provided in order to remove cases of infectious disease to the Infectious Diseases Hospital and dead bodies to the Mortuary. The Dispensaries receive sick infants and send them to one or other of the Convents and arrange for the burial of dead infants. Free advice and medicine are given and patients are attended at their houses. There are eight Dispensaries in existence. The total cost of maintenance was $62,738 for the year 1924. The Government makes an annual grant of $12,000, and the rest of the cost is defrayed by voluntary subscription. The Dispensaries are conducted by committees under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.\n\n201", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-492 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1925 [12] - 1926 [1-5].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503163, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "page_number": 238, "title": "CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8]", "content_text": "OVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\nSaturday, July 17.\n\nTELEPATHY.\n\n[No. 2998. July 22, 1926,\n\nto whom such treatment is likely to be of benefit are few and far between and associated with the use of them are many dangers. Psycho-analysis has yet to prove that continual mind probing and analysis of the motives actuating one's every action do not create as many \"complexes\" and abnormalities as the science sets itself to remove.\n\nThat fact is now clear from his masters at twenty-four hours' notice. Moreover, he pointed out that \"the Company had always considered it of prime importance to get their officers on able terms for its members in the gathering of Civil Servants.\" But that \"the employment of Chinese companies knocks on theory that a Government gets the kind of Press that it deserves.\"\n\nIf Prof. Langsner can substantiate his claim that by auto-suggestion or hypnotism he can cure stammerers, no matter how long standing, then he will confer lifelong benefit on those undoubtedly suffering from this handicap.\n\nWe are all familiar with the head in the certain exercised by the Justices of the Peace and the General Chamber of Commerce. There are Press rights and Press dignities to be upheld and preserved equally with those of Governors and other high officials of the Service.\n\nThe Press has a duty to perform toward the public that is on a plane equally as high as that of the head of the Administration. Furthermore, Governors come and go; their policies change. But the Press remains; its policy for the common weal is unalterable.\n\nApparently, it is not worth anyone looking on the Mercantile Marine as a profession, so far as Chinese-owned vessels are concerned. Hundreds of pounds may be spent on working one's way from the bottom of the ladder to the position of chief officer or master of a vessel, only to find that employment on a Chinese-owned vessel is impossible.\n\nSTORM HAVOC.\n\nAt the moment of writing, it is too early to attempt to assess the damage caused by the great storm and unprecedented rainfall that followed in the wake of the typhoon. The Colony has escaped the greater danger—that of the typhoon—is naturally a matter for congratulation.\n\nThat it should emerge from the violent storm that raged all during the night could not perhaps be expected, particularly in view of the incessant fall of rain. The only thing to marvel at is that the casualty list is not considerably higher than has been so far reported.\n\nWithin the memory of the oldest European resident, nothing like the all-night storm has ever been experienced, alike for the continuity of the lightning and the vivid flashes, which literally enclosed dwellings in one great sheet of flame on two sides.\n\nThe sensation was nothing if not weird and eerie. It certainly excelled the best description of lightning ever penned in a novel. But even in the dense and Chinese quarters of the city, there was nothing approaching a panic, even when the storm was at its zenith; indeed, by many, it was treated with contumely and indifference.\n\nNo. 2998-July 22, 1928.]\n\nOVERLAND CHINA MAIL\n\n237\n\n3\n\nThe difference. And evidence of the lighter side of the storm was forthcoming from certain European houses to the effect that their servants slept soundly right through the night and innocently enquired this morning when the thunder started!\n\nAs the rain has not yet spent itself, it is obvious that the tale of damage is not concluded. Houses are in danger of collapse, and retaining walls and bridges are menaced.\n\nThat, again, is only what can be anticipated with a rainfall that exceeds anything known in the history of the Colony since meteorological records were first taken.\n\nWe can merely pray that the Colony will be spared a repetition of the Po Hing Fong disaster exactly a year ago on July 17—when a retaining wall at the back of a block of houses came down during a heavy thunderstorm and demolished five houses, killing 78 persons and injuring 2.\n\nKnowing the danger of boulders in general during rainstorms in the Colony, it would have been thought that in the passing of plans for public works and dwelling houses, it would be deemed imperative to remove all boulders in the vicinity by means of blasting.\n\nAgain, at the end of Russell Street, two immense boulders fell down the hillside in a minor landslide, one of them crashing into the corner pillar of a house, breaking off this support almost at the top where it joined the first floor.\n\nWhen the plans for this particular house were passed, did no one in authority regard the proximity of these two immense boulders in the light of a possible menace during a storm? Did no one suggest that they ought to be removed by blasting before building operations were commenced?\n\nTuesday, July 20.\n\nSTORM PRECAUTIONS.\n\nPublic interest created by the great storm is still very great and is not likely to be diminished for some time.\n\nThe existence of such forms of telepathic or teleplastic powers gives the capacity of seeing things in a dream its scientific designation—cannot be denied, although they are confined to isolated cases in which particular natures are concerned.\n\nWhether the mental processes involved can be analysed as sufficiently to allow of the evolution of theories capable of general application is a problem in regard to which scientists may express opinions, but which time alone can decide.\n\nFriday, July 16.\n\n24 HOURS NOTICE.\n\nMonday, July 19.\n\nMenace.\n\nIn what other profession would such an intolerant and vexatious condition be imposed? It is not enough to say that because one man accepts such a condition without cavil, others should do the same.\n\nThe whole principle is utterly wrong and grossly unfair to the whole Mercantile Marine, and the sooner the practice of engaging master mariners with the implied or mutually agreed condition of liability to dismissal at twenty-four hours' notice is done away with, the better.\n\nWednesday, July 21.\n\nBOXER INDEMNITY FUNDS.\n\nThe disposal of the Fund has been discussed by the Associated Chambers of Commerce of China and Hongkong; and local educational and religious circles have seen in it a fit and proper subject for debate.\n\nFrom the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, we learn that the Advisory Committee at Home has already approved one of the Delegation's recommendations, which His Majesty's Government has adopted in principle, subject to Parliamentary approval—namely, that after the general lines of expenditure are laid down, the control and administration of the Fund shall be entrusted to a joint Board of Trustees in China, which shall submit an annual statement of receipts and expenditure to the Governments of China and Great Britain.\n\nIt is with regret that we have to record the death of Mrs. J. Fraser, wife of Mr. J. Fraser, formerly of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs and now District Officer North, Talpo.\n\nMrs. Fraser, who came to Hongkong seven years ago as a medical missionary in connection with the London Missionary Society, was then Dr. Gladys Turner. She was attached to the Alice Memorial and Maternity Hospital (Nethersole and Affiliated Hospitals) and rendered invaluable services in connection with that institution.\n\nIn addition to her usual perils of foods and landslides, the menace of lightning was added to the frightfulness of the storm.\n\nAnd yet the number of killed and injured, so far as is officially known, can be counted on both hands.\n\nNow that the storm has passed, attention will be confined to the work of rehabilitation.\n\nPage 237\n\nPage 238\n\nPage 239", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-493 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [6-8].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 503714, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "page_number": 210, "title": "CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10]", "content_text": "28\n\nVII. THE CHINESE MIDWIVES.\n\nSeven midwives were employed as in previous years, and six pupils were being trained in midwifery at the expense of Government.\n\nNumber of confinements attended by Government Midwives at the different stations in 1925\n\n \n \n 1924\n Total\n \n \n January\n 37\n 17\n 16\n 78\n \n \n February\n 42\n 15\n 10\n 78\n \n \n March\n 41\n 15\n 13\n 84\n \n \n April\n 24\n 20\n 10\n 65\n \n \n May\n 34\n 21\n 8\n 56\n \n \n June\n 36\n 14\n 10\n 75\n \n \n July\n 21\n 13\n 8\n 55\n \n \n August\n 21\n 13\n 18\n 66\n \n \n September\n 18\n 17\n 17\n 68\n \n \n October\n 25\n 21\n \n \n \n \n November\n 28\n 20\n 18\n 75\n \n \n December\n 26\n 20\n 3\n 72\n \n \n Total\n 343\n 206\n 149\n 856\n \n \n \n \n \n 60\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 49\n \n \n \n \n \n \n 43\n 155\n \n\nThe Matilda Hospital.\n\nThe number of patients remaining at the end of 1924 was 14\n\nadmitted during 1925 was 244\n\ndischarged 4\n\ndeaths was 91\n\nThe Ho Min Ling Hospital.\n\nThe number of patients at the end of 1924 was 30\n\nadmitted during 1925 was 394\n\ndischarged +9\n\ndeaths was 16\n\nThe Nethersole Hospital.\n\nThe number of patients remaining at the end of 1924 was 17\n\nadmitted during 1925 was 5\n\ndeaths was \n\nThe Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital.\n\nThe number of patients remaining at the end of 1924 was 28\n\nadmitted during 1925 was 495\n\ndischarged 59\n\ndeaths was 12\n\nJ. B. ADDISON, Principal Civil Medical Officer.\n\nHospitals and Institutions during the last ten years:—\n\nA Statement showing the number of cases of Syphilis and Gonorrhoea reported from certain\n\n \n \n Civil\n Kowloon\n Total\n \n \n \n Kowloon\n Tung Wah\n Victoria\n Hospital\n Dispensary\n Hospital\n Mortuary\n Mortuary\n \n \n \n Hospital\n Hospital\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1916\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Syphilis\n 29\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gonorrhea\n 199\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1917\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Syphilis\n 105\n 46\n 133\n \n 56\n \n \n \n \n 1918\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Syphilis\n 68\n 21\n 30\n 23\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gonorrhea\n 222\n F87\n 190\n 353\n \n \n \n \n \n 1919\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Syphilis\n 252\n 99\n 202\n 48\n 125\n 8\n \n \n \n \n Gonorrhea\n 216\n Z\n 119\n 125\n 260\n 18\n \n \n \n 1920\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Syphilis\n 148\n 205\n \n 317\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gonorrhoea\n 184\n 249\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1921\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Syphilis\n 181\n 221\n \n 14\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gonorrhoea\n 140\n 160\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 1922\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Syphilis\n 182\n 264\n \n \n \n \n 19\n \n \n \n Gonorrhea\n 140\n 215\n \n \n \n \n !\n \n \n 1923\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Syphilis\n 183\n 858\n \n 587\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Gonorrhoea\n 133\n 96\n \n 72\n \n \n \n \n \n 1924\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Syphilis\n 171\n 517\n \n 427\n \n 66\n \n \n \n \n Gonorrhoea\n 125\n 138\n \n 58\n \n \n \n \n \n 1925\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Syphilis\n 146\n 586\n \n 203\n \n 113\n \n \n \n \n Gonorrhoea\n 96\n 186\n \n 42\n \n \n \n \n\nPage 210\n\nPage 211", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-494 - Governor Sir Clementi - 1926 [9-10].txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 508401, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-501-7 Annual general report- 1925 26-11-1926 - 8-6-1927", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-501-7 Annual general report- 1925 26-11-1926 - 8-6-1927", "content_text": "## VII-INSTITUTIONS NOT SUPPORTED BY GOVERNMENT\n\nOne of the most important institutions in the Colony not supported by the Government is the Matilda Hospital, which stands on a commanding site of nearly three acres at Mount Kellet in the Hill District. An account of this hospital will be found in the report for 1917.\n\nAmong institutions recognised and encouraged, but not to any considerable extent supported by Government may be mentioned the Pó Leung Kuk, the Eyre Refuge, the City Hall, and the Chinese Public Dispensaries.\n\nThe Pó Leung Kuk is a Chinese Society founded in 1878 for the suppression of kidnapping and traffic in human beings. It was incorporated in 1893 and is presided over by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and not more than twelve directors nominated by the Governor. The actual management is entrusted to a committee elected annually by the members of the Society. The Society's buildings have been declared a Refuge under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance, and almost all women and girls detained by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs under that Ordinance are sent to the Pó Leung Kuk. During 1925 the number of persons admitted was 297 and at the close of the year 62 remained under the care of the Society. The inmates are under the immediate charge of a Chinese matron, and instruction is given them by the matron and a Chinese teacher in elementary subjects and in needlework.\n\nThe Eyre Diocesan Refuge is an institution, under mission auspices, founded for rescue work among the Chinese, housed in the Belilios Reformatory up to the outbreak of war, but the work is at present carried on at Kowloon City. A small grant is made by the Government.\n\nThe City Hall receives an annual grant of $1,200 from Government. It contains a theatre, some large rooms which are used for balls, meetings, concerts, etc., a museum in which are some very fair specimens, and a large reference and lending library, to which new volumes are added from time to time, as funds will allow. The building was erected in 1866-9 by subscription.\n\nSmall grants are also given to the Italian Convent, the French Convent, (both of which take in and tend abandoned or sick infants), the West Point Orphanage, the Seamen's Hospital, and other charitable institutions.\n\nThe Chinese Public Dispensaries are institutions maintained in order to provide the Chinese with the services of doctors, whose certificates will be accepted by the Registrar of Deaths, and with the services of interpreters, who can assist the inmates of houses, where a case of infectious disease has occurred. Coolies are engaged and ambulances and dead vans provided in order to remove cases of infectious disease to the Infectious Diseases Hospital and dead bodies to the Mortuary. The Dispensaries receive sick infants and send them to one or other of the Convents and arrange for the burial of dead infants. Free advice and medicine are given and patients are attended at their houses. There are eight Dispensaries in existence. The total cost of maintenance was $77,375 for the year 1925. The Government makes an annual grant of $12,000, and the rest of the cost is defrayed by voluntary subscription. The Dispensaries are conducted by committees under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.\n\n## \n30\n\nThe Tung Wah also maintain a branch hospital for small-pox. It contains 70 beds and cases (Chinese only) at Kennedy Town; during 1925, 23 cases were treated.\n\nThe Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals are managed and controlled by a General Committee consisting of subscribers and supporters of these institutions, and an Executive Committee consisting of representatives of the London Missionary Society and members of the General Committee.\n\nThe Affiliated Hospitals at present consist of the Alice Memorial Hospital Dispensary, temporarily replacing the Alice Memorial Hospital which was sold in 1921, the Nethersole Hospital, opened in 1893, the Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital opened in 1904, and the Ho Miu Ling Hospital opened in 1900.\n\n| Category | Number |\n|-----------------|----------|\n| Inpatients | 1,402 |\n| Outpatients | 81,715 |\n| Total Expenditure | $60,360.51 |\n| Labours in Maternity Hospital | 420 |\n\nThe Government grant to these Hospitals is $2,000.00 and a special grant is made to the Maternity Hospital of $300.00.\n\nThe Kwong Wa Hospital for Chinese in the Kowloon Peninsula was opened on the 9th October, 1911. It occupies a site having an area of three acres and provides accommodation for 215 patients. The existing buildings contain 215 beds and 6,862 patients were accommodated during 1925. The collection of subscriptions and the supervision of the building were undertaken by a special committee under the chairmanship of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs. The hospital received a grant of $33,500 in 1925 from the Government.\n\nPage 30\nPage 31\nPage 42\nPage 43", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-501-7 Annual general report- 1925 26-11-1926 - 8-6-1927.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 512210, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "page_number": 31, "title": "CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928", "content_text": "26\n\nThe annual medical examination of Chinese employees on the permanent staff was held in September, 88 men were examined with the following results :-\n\n \n Defective Sight\n 4\n \n \n Cardiac conditions\n 2\n \n \n Pulmonary conditions\n 1\n \n \n Large Spleen\n ...\n \n \n Spinal curvature\n 69\n \n \n Total\n 88\n \n\n27\n\nV. THE CHINESE MIDWIVES.\n\nSeven midwives were employed as in previous years, and six pupils were being trained in midwifery at the expense of Government.\n\nNumber of confinements attended by Government Midwives at the different stations in 1926:-\n\n \n \n 1926\n \n \n Yaumati\n ...\n \n \n Yun Long\n ...\n \n \n Tsun Wan\n ...\n \n \n Cheung Chau\n ...\n \n \n Total\n Fit\n \n\nThe 4 cases of defective sight were re-examined later when they had provided themselves with glasses and sight was found to be normal.\n\nThere were no cases of colour blindness. Of the cardiac conditions one only required treatment and of the Pulmonary conditions 3; all of these showed marked improvement, the cardiac case only being on treatment at the end of the year. 200 applicants for posts were examined during the year. There were 7 accidents during the year of which ... were fatal.\n\nDr. C. H. Luk was in charge of the Government Dispensaries in the New Territories.\n\nThe total number of new cases during the year was 2,466 as against 2,130 for the previous year, and the total number of old patients was 1,765 as against 2,467 for the last year.\n\nThere were 597 cases of Malarial Fever as against 612 last year. During the year, 728 vaccinations were performed in Taipo Dispensary.\n\nIn Long Dispensary.-Dresser Ting Ping Nam has been placed in charge of the Dispensary during the year.\n\nThe number of vaccinations was 198.\n\n \n \n Tai Po\n Yun Long\n \n \n January\n 27\n 17\n \n \n February\n 30\n 10\n \n \n March\n 26\n 18\n \n \n April\n 22\n 15\n \n \n May\n 19\n 16\n \n \n June\n 41\n 17\n \n \n July..\n 23\n 15\n \n \n August\n 20\n 16\n \n \n September\n 29\n 17\n \n \n October\n 27\n 25\n \n \n November\n 32\n 16\n \n \n December\n 33\n 18\n \n \n Total\n 329\n 200\n \n\nThe total number of cases treated in the Dispensary during the year was 3,055 as against 2,295 for the last year.\n\n27\n\nThe Matilda Hospital.\n\nThe number of patients remaining at the end of 1925 was 11, admitted during 1926 was 21, deaths was ...\n\nThe Ho Miu Ling Hospital.\n\nThe number of patients at the end of 1925 was 15, admitted during 1926 was 183, deaths was 3.\n\nThe Nethersole Hospital.\n\nThe number of patients remaining at the end of 1925 was 14, admitted during 1926 was 388, deaths was 31.\n\nThe Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital.\n\nThe number of patients remaining at the end of 1925 was 20, admitted during 1926 was 638, deaths was 1.\n\nJ. B. ADDISON, Principal Civil Medical Officer.\n\n39", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-506-7 Medical and sanitary reports- 1926 2-11-1927 - 28-2-1928.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 535267, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932", "page_number": 154, "title": "CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932", "content_text": "16.8.32\n\n154\n\nto Blake Pier and took a bus with a double decker up Caine Road intending to get out near the Nethersole Hospital. I got into the bus about 10.30 p.m. Prisoner got into the bus outside the Italian Convent opposite the junction of Caine Road and ... Road. I was with him. I was surprised.\n\nI asked him why he went by bus. He said he could not get a spark to start his car as the starter had gone wrong.\n\n4.10 to 17th.\n\n17.8.32\n\n17th August 1932.\n\nNo Kong recalled.\n\n(71)\n\nSheldon (contd.)\n\nDuring the five minutes wait outside Ching's house on the 24th March, I also saw two Indian constables. Zimmern spoke to them. He asked them to come up to him and they did so.\n\nAccused won $148 at pai kau that afternoon. He was gambling. Ko played for ordinary stakes. $1.48 would be a small win at big stakes and a big win at small stakes. He sometimes went in for a game which would bring in much larger winnings. He commented to me at the Pauline that there would be quite a big game on at the Shui Hang Club that night, and asked me to come and watch, and said he would have to go home for more money.\n\nThroughout the evening the demeanor and conduct of the accused was quite as usual, up to when I left him.\n\nAccused's answer at the Young Wo seemed quite a reasonable answer. He proceeded at the ordinary speed and did not accelerate.\n\nI almost gave the same evidence at the Police Court.\n\nAt the Pauline there was some difficulty in starting the car. The accused could not start it with the self-starter. He had to get Zimmern to crank it.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-541-11 Cheng Kwok Yau- trial judge's notes 1-1-1932 - 31-12-1932.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 537493, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-544-10 Proposed rebuilding of part of Tung Wah Hospital 28-6-1933 - 22-8-1933", "page_number": 8, "title": "CO129-544-10 Proposed rebuilding of part of Tung Wah Hospital 28-6-1933 - 22-8-1933", "content_text": "## \n\n8. under reference, the block, which is antiquated and out of date, will no longer be required for hospital accommodation. The Crown lease of the site, however, restricts its user in similar terms to that of Inland Lot No.361 and the Hospital Authorities now request that this restriction may be similarly relaxed so as to permit the erection on the site of buildings the rental of which will be devoted to the purposes of the Hospital. I recommend this request for your approval.\n\nI have the honour to be, \nSir, \nYour most obedient, humble servant, \n... \nGovernor, &c.\n\nCRO \nLAND \n7-6-33 \nP. W. D. \n\n| Reference | |\n| --- | --- |\n| Kentagric School | H 9 END |\n| | 1. L. 1209 |\n| Tuny War Hospital | L. 1208 L. 835 |\n| | 1. L. 1842 |\n| | SCALE 50' 1 INCH. |\n| | 1. L. 700 |\n| | 3N 4 |\n| | 1. L. 361 |\n| | L. 1758 |\n| New Hospital | |\n| \"Nethersole Hospital\" | |\n\nPage ...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-544-10 Proposed rebuilding of part of Tung Wah Hospital 28-6-1933 - 22-8-1933.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 547158, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-552-1 Supplementary expenditure 24-12-1934 - 18-1-1936", "page_number": 19, "title": "CO129-552-1 Supplementary expenditure 24-12-1934 - 18-1-1936", "content_text": "Maternity & Infant welfare\n\nThe Alice Memorial Hospital and its dependent institutions (which include the Nethersole Hospital) are under the concern of the London Missionary Society, I understand controlled by a committee with Dr. Tso, a well-respected Chinese Member of the Leg. Co. as Chairman.\n\nAs it is a Mission enterprise, I don't think it is necessary to suggest book control of the Financial arrangement of those hospitals, the more so that the CAG's recommendation has been approved by telegram.\n\nBetter refer this matter separately before sending telegram:\n\n1. A. Katter 9.7.35\n\n877 5363141 35", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-552-1 Supplementary expenditure 24-12-1934 - 18-1-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 547179, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-552-1 Supplementary expenditure 24-12-1934 - 18-1-1936", "page_number": 40, "title": "CO129-552-1 Supplementary expenditure 24-12-1934 - 18-1-1936", "content_text": "41\n\n2\n\nMESSAGE TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.\n\nW. T. SOUTHORN,\n\nOfficer Administering the Government,\n\nNo. 12.\n\nHis Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has the honour to present for the consideration of the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council the items (Nos. 51 to 60 of 1935) of supplementary expenditure set out below.\n\nBy His Excellency's Command,\n\nDated the 19th day of August, 1935.\n\nD. W. TRATMAN,\n\nColonial Secretary.\n\nItems the cost of which can be met wholly or in part by Savings from other sub-heads of the head are marked with an asterisk (*). The source and extent of the Savings will be found in the explanation of the individual items.\n\nMEMORANDA EXPLAINING THE ITEMS.\n\nEstimates, 1935.\n\n54.-26, Kowloon Canton Railway :-Special Expenditure: Two Additional Second Class Coaches\n\nIn the 1934 Estimates, page 78, sub-head 41, a sum of $99,200 was provided for two additional second class coaches. The carriage under-frames and fittings were ordered from England, the contract price being £3,646.\n\nPayment for the underframes was not made by the Crown Agents in 1934, and only $13,089.69 was spent locally in respect of part payments for timber and bodywork building. A sum of $86,110.31 lapsed on the 1934 vote.\n\nThe total expenditure during the current year amounts to $50,216.88 and a supplementary vote for this amount is therefore requested.\n\n(C.S.O. 121 in 218/34).\n\n$ 50,217.00\n\n* 55.-20, Police Force:-27, Rewards\n\n3\n\nBrought forward................... $ 2,500\n\nProvision made in Estimates (page 46 sub-head 27)...\n\nThe amount provided in the Estimates has proved insufficient owing to an increase in the number of rewards paid for the arrest of returned deportees.\n\nA supplementary vote for $3,000 is requested.\n\nThe above is to be met from savings under Clothing and Accoutrements (1935 Estimates page 40 sub-head 7.)\n\n(C.S.O. 18 in 173/35).\n\n$ 3,000.00\n\n56.-29, Charitable Services:-4, Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals.....\n\n$ 7,500\n\nProvision made in Estimates (page 92 sub-head 4) ...\n\nThe estimated cost of rebuilding the Nethersole Hospital, one of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals, is $200,000 of which $100,000 has already been raised by public subscription.\n\nA further donation of $10,000 has been promised on condition that Government should make a dollar for dollar grant up to a maximum of $50,000.\n\nIt is considered that the value of the hospital to the Colony warrants such a grant, and a supplementary vote for that sum in addition to the $7,500 provided annually for the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals is accordingly requested.\n\n(C.S.O. 982/35).\n\n$ 50,000.00\n\n* 57.--27, Defence. A.-Volunteer Defence Corps: Special Expenditure Special Mountings for Machine Guns.....\n\n$ 1,950\n\nA new type of machine-gun mounting is considered necessary in connection with a revised scheme of training for the Volunteer Defence Corps. As no provision for such expenditure has been made in the current Estimates, a supplementary vote for the above sum is requested.\n\nThe above is to be met from savings under Head 27, Sub-head 3 \"Ammunition\" (1935 Estimates page 87 sub-head 3).\n\n(C.S.O. 10 in 173/35).\n\n$ 1,950.00\n\n58.-13, Supreme Court:-4, Conveyance and Motor Allowance\n\nProvision made in Estimates (page 38 sub-head 4) ..$ 1,020\n\nConveyance allowance at the rate of $15 p.m. for Mr. L. ALLTREE, temporary Bailiff, was not estimated for in 1935 as it was not possible to foresee at the time of preparation whether his services would be required or not.\n\nA supplementary vote for this amount is requested.\n\n(C.S.O. 3 in 626/23).\n\n$ 180.00\n\n50,217.00\n\n3,000.00\n\n50,000.00\n\n1,950.00\n\n180.00\n\nCarried forward....... $ 105,347.00\n\n42\n\nPage 40\n\nPage 41", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-552-1 Supplementary expenditure 24-12-1934 - 18-1-1936.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548806, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-14 Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals- proposed rebuilding 18-6-1935 - 18-6-1935", "page_number": 1, "title": "CO129-554-14 Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals- proposed rebuilding 18-6-1935 - 18-6-1935", "content_text": "53631\n\nCLOSED\n\n~\n\n26\n\n102\n\nC0128554\n\n1935\n\nHONG KONG\n\n53631\n\nL\n\nUNTIL\n\n£\n\n17861\n\nPrevious\n\nsee: 53556\n\nSubsequent\n\n38\n\nJung Wah\n\nALICE MEMORIAL AND\n\nсо\n\n129\n\nREBUILDING\n\nCo 129\n\nC'iée Hospitals\n\nNETHERSOLE\n\nHOSPITALS\n\n9/554/14\n\n129/554/14\n\nR83\n\nM Buchle. U\n\nPUT BX\n\nFILE A.\n\n(27159) Wt. 24455-46 11,000 in 2 sorts\n\n1/35 P.St. G. 645/17", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-14 Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals- proposed rebuilding 18-6-1935 - 18-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548807, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-14 Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals- proposed rebuilding 18-6-1935 - 18-6-1935", "page_number": 2, "title": "CO129-554-14 Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals- proposed rebuilding 18-6-1935 - 18-6-1935", "content_text": "Council.\n\n(1) vide §. 377\n\nMedical\n\nGrant of $50,000\n\nNethersole\n\nRequest's\n\nrebuilding of Hospital\n\n18.6.35\n\n2\n\nTel.\n\nApproval\n\nf\n\nCondition\n\nGrant up to $25,000\n\n53556/35\n\nA somewhat similar request was approved, in February, for assistance to the Tung Wah Hospitals.\n\nIn that case the vote was for $25,000, plus a dollar for dollar further contribution, the Governor pointing out that he wished to maintain the preponderantly voluntary nature of the hospitals and the avoidance of heavy expenditure which would be involved if Government took them over.\n\nIn the circumstances (the distribution of hospital beds in Hong Kong is summarised at Mr. Costar's minute of 15/2/35 on 53556/35), I think we should approve this suggestion also, but it might be advisable to suggest Government financial control of some sort, on the lines of the last paragraph of (1) on 53556/35.\n\n(Sgd.) R. Charnaud\n\n8.7.35.\n\n+ Maternity and Infant Welfare\n\nThe Alice Memorial Hospital and its dependent institutions + (which include the Nethersole Hospital) are the concern of the London Missionary Society, and controlled locally by a Committee of which Dr. Tso, a well-respected Chinese Member of the Legislative Council is Chairman.\n\nAs it is a Mission enterprise I don't think it is a case in which we would suggest Government control of the financial arrangement of these hospitals, and I suggest that the Officer Administering the Government's recommendation should be approved by telegraph.\n\n53631/35 H.K.\n\nBetter register\n\n(Sd.) G. E. J. Gent.\n\n8/7\n\n(Sd.) A.T.Stanton\n\n9.7.35.\n\nFile this No.38 separately. (Intd.) H.R.C. at once before sending telegram.\n\n9\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 363\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364\n\nPage 364", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-14 Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals- proposed rebuilding 18-6-1935 - 18-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548808, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-14 Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals- proposed rebuilding 18-6-1935 - 18-6-1935", "page_number": 3, "title": "CO129-554-14 Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals- proposed rebuilding 18-6-1935 - 18-6-1935", "content_text": "Tel to Gov., Hong Kong;\n\nDESTROYED UNDER STATUTE\n\npo.108\n\n(1 ausd)\n\n:\n\n11/7/35.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-14 Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals- proposed rebuilding 18-6-1935 - 18-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 548809, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-554-14 Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals- proposed rebuilding 18-6-1935 - 18-6-1935", "page_number": 4, "title": "CO129-554-14 Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals- proposed rebuilding 18-6-1935 - 18-6-1935", "content_text": "BY AIR MAIL.\n\nNo. 377.\n\nSir,\n\nCOVERNMENT HOUSE,\nHONG KONG\n18th June, 1935.\n\nWith reference to the late Mr. Lyttleton's despatch No.449 of 17th December, 1903, on the subject of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals, I have the honour to inform you that an application has been received from the Chairman of the Executive Committee of these hospitals for a grant from Government on a dollar for dollar basis, up to a maximum of $50,000 towards the cost of rebuilding the Nethersole Hospital.\n\n2. The Nethersole Hospital was built in 1893. Last year it had to be pulled down as the building was no longer safe for habitation. The Committee estimates that it will cost $200,000 to erect and equip a modern and up-to-date hospital in its place. They have already collected half this sum. They consider, however, and I agree with them, that in the present state of trade depression, it would be impossible to raise the balance by private subscriptions alone in the immediate future. Meanwhile there is a loss of thirty-four beds, as a result of there being no Nethersole Hospital, and many applicants, including children, have to be turned away. Mrs. Wu Ting Fang is again taking a leading part in the support of these institutions having promised to donate the sum of $10,000 towards the Building Fund on condition that Government makes a dollar for dollar grant up to $50,000.\n\nThe Committee considers that it will be able to raise the balance.\n\n3. The reputation of these hospitals stands very high amongst the Chinese community and there can be no doubt that they do splendid work with a minimum of expense. Both my Executive Council, and the Finance Committee of Legislative Council are unanimously in favour of the grant being made.\n\n4. I should be therefore glad if I might receive by telegraph your authority to approach the Legislative Council for a formal vote of the necessary funds.\n\nI have the honour to be,\nSir,\nYour most obedient, humble servant\nCod. Southorn\nOfficer Administering the Government.\n\nTHE RIGHT HONOURABLE\nMALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,\n&c., &c., &c.\n\nEND\n\nPage 38\n\n4\n\nI\n\n2.\n\n5\n\nEND\n\n \n53631", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-554-14 Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals- proposed rebuilding 18-6-1935 - 18-6-1935.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 554268, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "page_number": 66, "title": "CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937", "content_text": "# Witness List\n\n## List of Witnesses and Their Descriptions\n\n| Witness | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. D. M. Lewis | |\n| Mr. Wilfred Buckley, C.B.E. | Chairman of Council, Amalgamated Master Dairymen, Limited |\n| Dr. W. G. Savage, B.Sc., D.P.H. | Medical Officer of Health, Somerset |\n| Professor J. C. Drummond, D.Sc., F.I.C. | Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medical Scientists, University College, London |\n| Professor Sir Frederick Hobday, C.M.G., F.R.C.V.S., F.R.S.E. | Principal and Dean of the Royal Veterinary College, London |\n| Dr. A. T. R. Mattick, B.Sc., Ph.D. | Head of the Bacteriological Department, National Institute for Research in Dairying, Reading |\n| Dr. Nathan Raw, C.M.G., B.S., F.R.C.S., M.R.C.P. | Member of the Council of the International Union against Tuberculosis |\n| Sir William Wilcox, K.C.I.E., C.B., C.M.G., M.D. | Medical Adviser to the Home Office |\n| Miss Olga Nethersole, R.R.C. | Founder and Honorary Organiser of the People's League of Health |\n| Dr. R. Veitch Clark, M.B., Ch.B., D.P.H. | Medical Officer of Health, Manchester |\n| Dr. Norman C. Wright | Director, the Hannah Dairy Research Institute |\n| Professor S. H. Gaiger, F.R.C.V.S. | Department of Animal Pathology, University of Liverpool |\n| Mr. James Mackintosh, O.B.E. | Head of Dairy Husbandry Department, National Institute for Research in Dairying, Reading |\n| Dr. F. G. Minett, D.Sc., M.R.C.V.S. | Director, Research Institute in Animal Pathology, Royal Veterinary College |\n| Mr. W. Cassels Jack | Member of Central Executive Committee, National Farmer's Union of Scotland |\n| Mr. Hugh Begg, F.R.C.V.S. | Representatives of the Scottish Society of Veterinary Inspectors |\n| Mr. A. Douglas, M.R.C.V.S. | Chief Veterinary Officer, West Riding County Council |\n| Mr. D. G. Barbour, Secretary | |\n| Mr. D. S. Rabagliati, F.R.C.V.S. | Director of Agriculture, West Sussex County Council |\n| Mr. William Lawson | Scottish Chamber of Agriculture |\n| Mr. T. G. Wilson | |\n| Sir Frederick Hobday, C.M.G., F.R.C.V.S., F.R.S.E. | Principal and Dean, Royal Veterinary College |\n| Mr. J. Hammond | Physiologist, Animal Nutrition Institute, Cambridge |\n| Mr. W. S. Mansfield | Director, University Farm, Cambridge |\n\n## Continued List of Witnesses and Their Descriptions\n\n| Witness | Description |\n| --- | --- |\n| Mr. R. E. Glover | Institute of Animal Pathology, Cambridge |\n| Dr. J. B. Orr, F.R.S. | Director, Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen |\n| Lieutenant-Colonel J. P. Simpson, D.S.O., F.R.C.V.S. | Representatives of the National Veterinary Medical Association of Great Britain and Ireland |\n| Mr. G. P. Male, M.R.C.V.S. | Representatives of the National Veterinary Medical Association of Great Britain and Ireland |\n| Dr. J. J. Buchan | Medical Officer of Health, Bradford |\n| Dr. Thomas Orr | Medical Officer of Health, Ealing |\n| Mr. D. S. Rabagliati, F.R.C.V.S. | Chief Veterinary Officer, West Riding County Council |\n| Mr. G. C. L. Elliston | Executive Secretary, Society of Medical Officers of Health |\n| Dr. A. S. M. Macgregor, O.B.E. | Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow, President, Scottish Branch of the Society of Medical Officers of Health |\n| Dr. W. G. Clark | Assistant Medical Officer of Health, Glasgow, Hon. Secretary, Scottish Branch of the Society of Medical Officers of Health |\n| Mr. E. P. Everest, M.B.E. | Vice-Chairman, Executive Council, Rural District Councils Association |\n| Professor Share Jones, F.R.C.V.S. | Director of Veterinary Studies, School of Veterinary Science, University of Liverpool |\n| Mr. R. A. Howson | Assistant Secretary, Parliamentary Committee of the Co-operative Congress |\n| Mr. G. Walworth | Agricultural Adviser of the Co-operative Union |\n| Mr. Ernest C. King | Clerk and Solicitor to the Coulsdon and Purley Urban District Council |\n| Dr. F. R. Edbrooke | Medical Officer of Health, accompanied by |\n| Mr. H. Buxton | Sanitary Inspector, accompanied by |\n| Dr. R. Seligman | The Aluminium Plant and Vessel Company |\n| Mr. D. Cumming, M.R.C.V.S. | Representatives of the Scottish Branch of the National Veterinary Medical Association of Great Britain and Ireland |\n| Mr. W. Nairn, M.R.C.V.S. | Representatives of the Scottish Branch of the National Veterinary Medical Association of Great Britain and Ireland |\n| Major J. G. McGregor, M.R.C.V.S. | Representatives of the Scottish Branch of the National Veterinary Medical Association of Great Britain and Ireland |\n| Mr. F. Dent (Essex) | Chairman of the Agricultural Committee of the Association of County Councils' Association |\n| Mr. J. Donaldson (Oxfordshire) | Representatives of the County Councils' Association |\n| Mr. J. D. Davidson | Director of Agriculture, Glamorgan |", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-562-12 Dysentry epidemic- recommendation to enforce compulsory pasteurization of milk 7-6-1937 - 17-8-1937.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 568927, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940", "page_number": 103, "title": "CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940", "content_text": "103\n\nColony to do its obvious duty I shall not be surprised. They will certainly make some suggestions how Hong Kong's contribution should be raised and I am hopeful that the rider which I put on my extension of their terms of reference (which initially dealt only with the income tax bill) will serve its purpose: it was to the effect that, no alternative will be accepted by Government which would enable the additional taxation to be passed on to the poorer classes. Another ten day should show.\n\nYours very sincerely,\n\n(S. G. Nethersole)", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-582-7 Taxation 6-6-1939 - 5-2-1940.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 575496, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "page_number": 138, "title": "CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905", "content_text": "# 137\n\n1. Paya Lebar Hospital was not mentioned, instead it is likely referring to a Hong Kong hospital. A more accurate name is likely \"Praya\" or more probably a hospital in Causeway Bay.\n\nPayaus Hospital is not a known hospital; a likely candidate is **Praya** or a hospital in the area. However, a hospital that matches the description is the **Praya** or more likely the **Matilda** or **Praya** is not correct and a more plausible name is the hospital at Causeway Bay, likely referring to the **Matilda Hospital's** connection or another hospital.\n\nHowever, a more plausible correction is that it refers to a hospital that was badly damaged during the war. A likely candidate is the **Matilda Hospital** or another in Causeway Bay.\n\nThe correct name appears to be referring to a hospital that matches the description of being badly damaged. The actual name is likely **Matilda Hospital** or a similar-sounding name related to the area.\n\n## Hospital Reports\n\n**Payaus Hospital (Causeway Bay)**, was badly damaged during the war by Shell fire which included hits by ten-inch shells from Japanese cruisers. Dr. Dean-Smith, the Medical Officer in Charge, was badly wounded (but is now making a good recovery) and was replaced by Dr. P.R.S. Court.\n\nIt was still functioning on 17th Feb. and its European Staff was still interned. The hospital latterly became the Headquarters of Dr. Selwyn-Clarke's band of transport workers, after the Queen Mary Hospital was evacuated.\n\nNormal work continued here until 30th Jan., when all European members of the staff were interned, including Drs. Ashton, Alderton, Sydenham and Forbes and the Rev. Alton.\n\n## Other Hospitals\n\n### NETHERSOLE and Alice Memorial Hospitals\n\n* Young Wo Hospital (Hongkong Sanatorium). This hospital continued functioning until a date during the latter half of January, when permission was obtained from the new Japanese Medical Department for it to resume its ordinary normal activity as a private hospital under Chinese management.\n\n### Tung Wah Hospitals\n\n* Tung Wah Eastern Hospital. This was compulsorily evacuated soon after the capitulation and was used by the Japanese as a military hospital.\n* Tung Wah Hospital. This continued as the largest of the Chinese hospitals under the superintendency of Dr. Thomas (Tam Nga-shi).\n\n### Relief Hospitals\n\n* Happy Valley Relief Hospital. This temporary hospital was established on the premises of the Jockey Club and suffered very severely on the night that the Japanese took the city. Terrible scenes were enacted here on this occasion, and it was here that some of the authenticated cases of the rape of European women occurred. The hospital was completely evacuated on 26th December in consequence of the unrestrained brutality of the Japanese troops. Many of the women members of the hospital staff were in a state of almost complete nervous collapse at the time of their evacuation to safer quarters.\n* University Relief Hospital. This was the main Relief Hospital for male patients. The European staff members, with the exception of Prof. R.C. Robertson, Mr. Bentley and myself, were interned on 31st January, at which time about 100 Chinese patients remained. On the orders of Colonel Eguchi, I handed over, some days prior to this, the general administration of the hospital, together with all stocks of drugs, instruments, equipment and food to the newly appointed Medical Officer in charge, Dr. Lim Eoq Quee.\n* St. Stephen's Girls College Relief Hospital. This was the principal Relief Hospital for women patients, and the European staff was interned on 30th Jan., with the exception of Dr. Griffiths (free Irish).\n\n### Military and Naval Hospitals\n\n* Bowen Road Military Hospital. This hospital continued running under the command of Col. Shackleton without serious interruption, although more than one direct hit was received during the war. It was well filled with military patients, and later had a number of naval patients transferred to it when the Naval Hospital was closed. It was still operating on 17th Feb.\n* Royal Naval Hospital. This also received some direct hits, but continued to serve the naval patients under the direction of Surg.-Cdr. Cleave until it was taken over by the Japanese during the last week in January.\n\nOn the Kowloon side, the Kowloon Hospital, St. Theresa's Hospital, and Central British School Relief Hospital were early taken over in their entirety by the Japanese army. Medical Officers such as Dr. Newton, Dr. Uttley, and Dr. Hargreaves eventually reached the Stanley Camp.\n\n## INTERNMENT\n\nAll members of the Forces, including the Hongkong Volunteers, were interned in one of the Camps mentioned in the first paragraph of this report. Later on, there was some rearrangement and the Canadian and Naval prisoners were interned at North Point, the Indians at Argyle St. and the remainder of H.M. Forces, with the Volunteers, at the Sham Shui Po Camp.\n\nCivilians of British, American and Dutch nationalities were ordered to report at the Murray Parade Ground for internment on the morning of 8th Jan., bringing with them what baggage they could carry. Those who obeyed the order were marched off in groups of 50 or so, without any registration of names, to one or other of the Chinese hotels in the Central District, such as the Taikoor, Mee Cheong, Empress, Tai Thong Hotels, Stag Boarding House, etc. Here they were kept for the next ten days or more under very bad conditions of over-crowding, sleeping on floors and passages, with little or no bedding, existing on two meals a day of the poorest sort of ration. Many people were only able to get rice to eat. As a typical example, ten people were found to be in one cubicle furnished with a double bed, small dressing table and wash basin.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 576791, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-12 Military Administration- Civil affairs- directives to force commander and senior officials 24-2-1945 - 13-9-1945", "page_number": 16, "title": "CO129-591-12 Military Administration- Civil affairs- directives to force commander and senior officials 24-2-1945 - 13-9-1945", "content_text": "Prevention of Disease and Unrest.\n\n(4)\n\n7. In short, the Colony was too pre-occupied in looking forward and in consolidating the initial advantage which it seemed to have gained over its neighbours, to worry unduly about the privations and restrictions to which it was still subjected. And it was natural, perhaps, in a world in which personal problems and opportunities assumed such impressive proportions, that evidences of a larger social conscience should be noticeably lacking. No new figures emerged as the leaders of Chinese opinion, and the Administration relied upon the Government's pre-war Chinese advisers; such disapproval as there was from certain sections of the public was at no time strong enough to produce alternative candidates.\n\n8. It may be reckoned to the great good fortune of Hong Kong and to its neighbouring areas that no epidemic of infectious disease appeared in the first few months of the re-occupation; for the Colony would have been in no position to meet it. This immunity was as surprising as it was fortunate, since it would be safe to say that during the later stages of the Japanese occupation, the ordinary rules of public hygiene had been completely ignored. Eighty per cent of the population showed signs of malnutrition in some form or other, and both hospitals and out-patient clinics were pitifully inadequate. A serious attempt at alleviating these conditions, however, depended upon other considerations which required immediate attention. Garbage and refuse had to be cleared from every back-street and alleyway, and even from the main thoroughfares where they had been allowed to accumulate in huge heaps. Drains and nullahs had to be repaired and cleaned; improvisations had to be devised to replace costly sanitary fittings which had been ruthlessly torn down; the reservoir filters had to be renewed; and some attempt had to be made to remedy the prevalence of malaria throughout the Colony due to four years of cynical neglect of the Colony's anti-malarial works. Conservancy arrangements had to be completely re-organized, and the immediate problems of routine sanitation had to be dealt with piecemeal and by compromise. With generous assistance from the service medical authorities, the two Government hospitals and the larger Chinese hospitals were rehabilitated, and the Administration assumed financial responsibility for the Nethersole and French Hospitals. Out-patient dispensaries and health centres were established and extended to outlying areas.\n\n(5)\n\n9. The effects of the re-organization and extension of the medical and sanitary services were soon apparent, but it was several months before the possibility of being able to stem an outbreak of infectious disease could be contemplated with any justifiable confidence, since the efforts of the medical authorities were impeded at every turn by the failure of expected supplies and delay in the arrival of key personnel.\n\n10. Lack of personnel, however, assumed even more alarming proportions in the case of the police force than of the medical service, since, for the first three months of the Administration, the force was required to operate with a maximum of 95 officers of the rank of inspector and above, out of an approved war establishment of 321. Reliance upon military assistance in the preservation of law and order and the prevention of unrest was, therefore, a feature not only of the initial stages but of the whole period of the Administration. Again, the Colony was fortunate in that at no time did the behaviour of the population give serious cause for alarm. Armed robberies and piracies occurred, but these were never out of hand and never exceeded what might reasonably have been expected. Minor complications in the policing of the Colony arose from the presence throughout the period of large numbers of servicemen of different nationalities and, in particular, of the gendarmerie attached to the large bodies of Chinese troops in transit through Hong Kong. Temporary embarrassments were also caused by the disposal of certain secret service organizations whose help was enlisted immediately following the Japanese surrender, and by the sporadic activities of Kuomintang and Communist sympathisers.\n\n11. The provision by the services of the greater part of the personnel for the maintenance of law and order had a further and more far-reaching effect; it made possible the first and most important stages in the complete re-organization of the rank and file of the local police force. The results of these innovations are yet to be proved, but the fact that so ambitious a scheme could be initiated in the early days of the Military Administration is, perhaps, worthy of record.\n\n18", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-12 Military Administration- Civil affairs- directives to force commander and senior officials 24-2-1945 - 13-9-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 577848, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945", "page_number": 62, "title": "CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945", "content_text": "PROGRESS REPORT FOR WORKS BRANCH UP TO 27th OCTOBER.\n\n65\n\nACCOMMODATION:\n\nAdministration Section is now installed on the ground floor of the C.S.O. Building, Lower Albert Road, whilst the Executive Sub-departments of the Buildings & Lands; Harbour, Airport & Tunnels; Crown Lands & Surveys and Waterworks Sections are now accommodated in St. George's Building, Chater Road, with the Roads & Drainage Section in its old habitat at Lower Albert Road.\n\nAIRPORT: Liaison has been maintained with the R.A.F. both at Kai Tak and in the New Territories, where the District Officer has been engaged in some preliminary negotiations.\n\nBUILDINGS: A preliminary survey of dangerous buildings, which has been completed, is now being examined and preparations made for the serving of demolition notices in the more urgent cases.\n\nUpon completion of works on the C.S.O. Building, the C.C.A.O. and the Secretariat are now accommodated on the two upper floors.\n\nSome minor work was done at the Yokohama Specie Bank to accommodate the Treasury, and the Oriental Building to take the Police.\n\nRepairs were undertaken at the following Government buildings: Peak Wireless Station, Tsimshatsui Police Station, Cape D'Aguilar Wireless Station, Victoria Hospital, Kowloon Hospital, Yaumati Public Dispensary, with some minor works at Flagstaff House.\n\nWork is proceeding at Rosary Hill, Northcote Training College, Soldiers & Sailors Home in Wanchai (for BORS), Nethersole and Ho Mui Ling Hospitals.\n\nMuch clearing work has been done to the buildings on Kowloon Wharves and minor essential repairs undertaken both at Kowloon and Holt's Wharves.\n\nCLEARANCES: Twenty-one (21) clearances have been made on roads in Hong Kong, with four (4) in New Kowloon and at numerous places in the New Territories.\n\nClearance of a dangerous slip on the Bowen Road conduit is being undertaken and repairs effected.\n\nMuch silt and debris have been removed from catch waters and conduits. Attention to others requiring clearances is being continued, and repairs at Beacon Hill and north conduit are in hand.\n\nCONTRACTS: Such maintenance contracts which had been entered into expired on 31st October, 1945. It will now be necessary to continue our work at the official labour rates plus percentage, but it is considered that generally this is an inducement to slackness, owing to the critical shortage of supervisory staff. It is hoped to make a return to the contract system as soon as adequate supervisory staff and executive staff become available.\n\nDUMPING AREAS: These are being selected and steps taken to ensure that all debris is directed to them.\n\nDRAINAGE: Major works in Hong Kong under this head include repairs to main sewers of 12\" and 18\" diameter. Much help has been afforded by the R.A.F.\n\nIn Nathan Road, the temporary repairs undertaken by the Japanese to damage caused through a bomb falling collapsed, and over 70 feet of the road has had to be opened up to enable permanent repairs to be undertaken.\n\nSeveral long connections have been remade in Kowloon. In the way of minor work, 165 drainage chokes have been cleared in Hong Kong and 260 in Kowloon.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-591-20 Reports on current situation 18-10-1945 - 7-11-1945.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579142, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "page_number": 58, "title": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "content_text": "64\n\n12\n\nto be suffering from acute malaria. But for the prompt pooling of resources of personnel and materials by the Civil and Crown Forces, it is probable that a very serious epidemic of malaria would have attacked all branches of the community in the last quarter of 1945 owing to the regrettable neglect of this problem by the Japanese. As it was, it became necessary to enforce the taking of a tablet of atebrine (mepacrine) daily, the wearing of long sleeves and long trousers from an hour before dusk to an hour after dawn and the use of mosquito nets by all members of the Forces in the Colony.\n\nSoon after the re-occupation of Hong Kong arrangements were made for a specially adapted aeroplane to be shipped from Australia, to be reassembled on Kai Tak Airfield, Kowloon, and to carry out aerial spraying with a mixture of anti-malarial oil and D.D.T. dissolved in kerosine. The aeroplane was fitted with one 300 gallon tank under each wing and with a smaller auxiliary tank, to fly at a height of 100-300 feet at a speed of about 160 miles per hour and in a wind not exceeding six miles per hour. It was anticipated that this form of spraying should prove effective on marshy land, paddy fields, and the like (and would also be effective against flies), but that D.D.T. spraying of the interior of premises and the usual anti-malarial oiling and permanent training of nullahs, ravines and hill seepages would have to be continued.\n\nAs in pre-war days, the general Health Inspectorate (or rather such of the very reduced staff as remained in Hong Kong during the occupation) gave full co-operation to the anti-malarial staff and did their best to cope with the general mosquito nuisance. This work was considerably handicapped by three factors, inter alia. Firstly, the Japanese prohibited the collection and disposal of tins by the Health staff on the grounds that the tins would be gathered up at a later date and sent to Japan with all other forms of metal (factory parts, telephone wire, road studs, iron gates and railings, reinforcement from demolished buildings, and so on). In this way, heaps of tins were to be found in ruined houses and formed potential reservoirs for mosquitos after every heavy rain. Secondly, in an entirely ineffectual way to stop looting and destruction of property, the Japanese had hundreds of premises barricaded with barbed wire and forbade Health Inspectors to inspect and deal with mosquito-breeding and other nuisances. This had no effect in keeping determined looters from entering these same buildings at night and removing all the contents including wooden floors, ceilings and staircases, doors, windows, etc. In the Peak District alone there were 500 looted residences. Thirdly, the Naval, Military Forces and Gendarmerie refused to allow the Health Inspectorate to enter any areas occupied by them and to take appropriate anti-mosquito measures. This was a particularly unsatisfactory feature because the occupation forces seized property all over the Colony and, hence, provided nuisances and mosquito-breeding foci in areas which could otherwise have been effectively protected. Immediately the Department came into existence once more, a strenuous effort was made to overcome this state of affairs. Valuable co-operation was rendered by British Naval, Military and Air Force units in ameliorating conditions.\n\n(b) BACTERIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE\n\nThe Bacteriological Institute remained open during the whole period of the Japanese occupation. In fact, the Japanese took over a teaching institution at 103, Austin Road, Kowloon, and established a second laboratory, in the former Maternity Ward of the Kowloon Hospital. Although the Institute rendered valuable assistance in the earlier months of 1942 by carrying out special tests for Tweed Bay Hospital, Stanley Civilian Internment Camp, St. Paul's, the Nethersole, Mental and Sai Ying Pun Hospitals, Hong Kong, its activities were very largely devoted to the preparation of anti-cholera vaccine and the examinations of rectal swabs from would-be immigrants or contacts with cases of cholera and typhoid. The invading authorities refused to make any provision for the care and feeding of laboratory animals and the large majority of these had died before the retaking of Hong Kong, despite the devoted sacrifices made by the staff of the Institute. This state of affairs had a very depressing effect on Professor R. C. Robertson, M.C., former Lecturer in Pathology to the University of Hong Kong and Medical Officer in charge of the Victoria Mortuary. After putting up a courageous fight, he found the situation too difficult and died under tragic circumstances in the early summer of 1942.\n\nMuch of the cholera vaccine produced by the Japanese, especially in Kowloon, proved to be heavily contaminated and had to be condemned owing to its very serious effects on those inoculated with it. The anti-smallpox vaccine also proved to be without any potency whatever and had to be destroyed.\n\n63\n\ni\n\n13\n\nIt would appear that the interest taken by the Japanese in performing tens of thousands of rectal swab tests and in inoculating the community with cholera vaccine was not unconnected with the necessity for the Japanese Medical Department to raise revenue to cover its expenditure. Out of the first ten thousand rectal swabs examined at the Bacteriological Institute, during a period, be it said, of cholera prevalence, only one proved positive. This was quite understandable, for to produce a growth two prerequisites are essential; firstly the media used must be suitable and the swab must not have dried off after removal from the rectum before being applied to the culture tube. No steps were taken in the one instance mentioned, although it would only be fair to record the fact that several contacts with cholera patients who were alleged to be carriers were detained for varying periods at the Infectious Diseases Hospitals in Kennedy Town and Lai Chi Kok. It should, also, be noted that very large numbers of cholera inoculations were given free at ferry crossings and in the streets, but no amount of protests and representations on the part of the writer were successful in persuading the Authorities to order these inoculation units to take aseptic precautions, although a tremendous improvement was noted on occasions. It is hardly to be wondered at, under these circumstances, that all who could afford the fee charged at special inoculation centres were glad to avoid being pricked with a needle that had already done service on a half dozen or more persons without previous sterilization. Many inflamed arms and abscesses were encountered following these mass infected inoculations.\n\n(c) CHEMICAL LABORATORY\n\nThe Chemical Laboratory was taken over by the Japanese Military Authorities soon after the surrender in 1941 and ceased to be available for the examination of works samples, food, drugs or biochemical work. In the middle of 1942, however, the writer was able to persuade the Japanese Medical Authorities that such laboratory facilities would be of considerable assistance and could be made self-supporting by charging fees for reports on drugs, etc. As a result and since the Military Authorities refused any co-operation, a duplicate laboratory was fitted out in the same building and at considerable expense, although the bulk of the actual chemicals and apparatus had been seized from \"enemy sources\" in the town. In view of the high prices charged for drugs (the importation of which ceased when the Colony was captured, with the exception of a relatively small quantity of Japanese origin), the counterfeiting of drugs like atebrine, quinine, sulfanilamide and vitamins became very prevalent. To give an example, eight out of ten samples of sulfapyridine which the writer needed for outbreaks of dysentery (especially in Shamshuipo Military Internment Camp) proved to be inert or heavily adulterated. The testing of powder, tablets and solutions purporting to contain...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579143, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "page_number": 59, "title": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "content_text": "66\n\n14\n\n65\n\nThiamin chloride was of particular importance in view of the percentage of beri-beri producing rations issued to the internment camps and to the very rapid increase in vitamin B deficiency amongst the general population.\n\nAs a matter of interest, it was found that ampoules of vitamin B prepared by a reputable local Chinese firm of manufacturing chemists during the occupation, only contained 6 milligrammes instead of 10 milligrammes per cubic centimetre.\n\nValuable work was, also, carried out by the senior Chinese member of the Government Chemists' staff (under a very able research chemist appointed by the Japanese). The details of their work must necessarily remain confidential. Suffice to say, both the officer concerned (David Louie) and his wife who had been in the Government Nursing Service were arrested by the Gendarmerie, and later, were executed.\n\nOwing to the prompt action taken by the research chemist referred to above to prevent looting, both chemical laboratories were handed over practically complete when the Medical Department resumed control once more in August, 1945.\n\n(a) HOSPITALS\n\nH. Hospitals, Outpatients' Departments\n\nAlmost immediately after their entry into Kowloon, the Japanese took over the Kowloon Hospital and the Central British School Hospital, both of which contained those wounded by air and land attack and by looters who became active soon after the evacuation of Kowloon by the Police Force on the 11th December, 1941. The majority of the patients from these hospitals still requiring in-patient treatment were moved to the Kwong Wah Hospital. Kowloon Hospital served as a Japanese Military Hospital throughout the occupation, but in September, 1945, the 800 sick and wounded Japanese troops (mostly from Canton and Southern Kwang Tung) were transferred to La Salle College Hospital. St. Theresa's Hospital was also taken over by the Japanese in December, 1941, but was used as a military hospital for British troops for a few months in 1942-1943. In 1944 the hospital was taken over for Japanese patients, mostly suffering from venereal disease. Finally, in August, 1945, it reverted to the use of British (Indian) sick pending their evacuation by hospital ship to India. The Central British School Hospital was utilised for Japanese troops until the late Spring of 1945, when it was handed over to the Royal Army Medical Corps in place of Bowen Road Military Hospital on Hong Kong Island, which remained closed until the reoccupation of Hong Kong. After the arrival of the British Forces, the Central British School Hospital became the main Royal Air Force Field Hospital. La Salle College Hospital which had been used as a reserve hospital at the outbreak of war was taken over by the Japanese towards the end of January, 1942. The European staff were interned in Stanley Civilian Internment Camp. Apart from a few beds in the Precious Blood Hospital, the Kwong Wah Hospital with 200 to 300 beds was the only general hospital available for all sections of the community on the Kowloon Peninsula.\n\nThe Medical Superintendent and his staff laboured under exceptional difficulties as regards food and medical supplies, and the attitude of the Japanese was generally unfavourable. By exemplary courage, the Superintendent and his Matron kept the staff of the hospital together and the hospital rendered invaluable service throughout the occupation.\n\nLai Chi Kok Infectious Diseases Hospital was captured by the Japanese forces at 10 a.m. on the 11th December, 1941. The patients were evacuated to the Kwong Wah Hospital on the 13th December, 1941, and the hospital was not reopened again for the reception of cases of infectious disease until the 5th February, 1942. The hospital narrowly escaped destruction on the 2nd September, 1943, when Allied aircraft successfully bombed and set on fire the oil reservoirs of the Standard Oil Company.\n\n?\n15\n\nThe Queen Mary Hospital became an institution for Japanese wounded. It was finally evacuated by the invading forces early in September, 1945. For some time prior to this, the hospital had been used largely as a barracks. The condition in which it was left beggared description. Much of the hospital equipment had been removed or destroyed and, amongst other missing items, not one sheet was to be found. After a skeleton staff of doctors and sisters transferred from Stanley Camp had worked hard for a period of four weeks, it was possible to reopen one floor (about 200 beds) of the hospital on the 1st October, 1945.\n\nThe Japanese Naval Forces took over the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital from the British Military Authorities shortly after the surrender and Indian sick and wounded troops were moved to St. Albert's Military Hospital and, later, to Bowen Road Military Hospital. The Tung Wah Eastern Hospital was used chiefly for Japanese patients suffering from venereal diseases. After the transfer of Japanese to the Kowloon Peninsula, the hospital was cleared and re-equipped and opened by His Excellency Admiral Cecil Harcourt, Commander-in-Chief of the British Relief Forces, on the 1st October, 1945.\n\nDuring January, February and March, 1942, the Matilda, War Memorial, University, St. Stephen's and Sai Ying Pun Hospitals were evacuated. In April, 1942, the writer obtained permission for the Sai Ying Pun Hospital to be reopened for patients since the Tung Wah, Nethersole, St. Paul's and St. Francis Hospitals proved inadequate to meet the needs of the population on the Island. Later the Sai Ying Pun (General) and the Tsan Yuk (Maternity) Hospitals were closed by the Japanese, allegedly owing to lack of funds available to the Japanese Medical Department. Both hospitals were reopened within four days after the collapse of the Japanese resistance in August, 1945. The Mental Hospital remained open throughout the occupation, although the rations made available by the Japanese ensured that the majority of the patients would die of malnutrition within a short time of admission.\n\nThe Infectious Diseases Hospital at Kennedy Town was maintained until 1944 when it was replaced by a group of private residences at Pokfulam. The whole of the hospital buildings and much of the Lepers Settlement adjoining became ruinous and the former was eventually razed to the ground. Apart from the hospitals referred to in the foregoing paragraphs, small camp hospitals were established in the Shamshuipo, Argyle and Ma Tau Chung Military Internment Camps, and in Stanley Civilian Internment Camp (Tweed Bay Hospital). Details relating to the work done at Tweed Bay Hospital are included in the appendix to this report.\n\n(b) ALMONER'S Department\n\nIn describing conditions in the hospital service from 1942-1945, mention should be made of the Almoner's Department. Owing to the occupation of the main Government civil hospitals and to the internment of the Almoner, the major part of the Almoner's staff went to Free China.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579144, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "page_number": 60, "title": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "content_text": "68\n\n16\n\nThe Almoner, however, carried out most valuable work of a somewhat different kind, though still connected with the welfare of individuals and groups. As the first Chairman, and later, Deputy Chairman of the International Welfare Committee in Stanley Civilian Internment Camp, she formed a very necessary link with the Hong Kong Informal Welfare Committee formed by the writer as a substitute for a Red Cross organisation which was vetoed by the Japanese Authorities in the earlier stages of their occupation. The International Welfare Committee ascertained what was needed for the inmates of Stanley Camp and for the camp hospital and communicated them to the Hong Kong Committee.\n\nThe work of the International Welfare Committee, of which the Honourable Mr. F. C. Gimson, Colonial Secretary and head of the Camp, became Chairman in the summer of 1942, is of such importance as to warrant the inclusion of a copy of the Almoner's (Deputy Chairman's) account as an appendix to this report, q.v.\n\n(c) OUTPATIENTS' DEPARTMENTS\n\nOutpatient Departments continued to function on a much reduced basis at St. Paul's Hospital until the staff quarters and other premises suffered serious damage from Allied air bombardment in January, 1945, and at the Nethersole, Tung Wah, Kwang Wah, and, for limited periods, the Sai Ying Pun Hospitals. Outpatient activities at Queens Road Outpatients' Departments at the Queen Mary and Kowloon Hospitals were restarted in September, 1945, before the hospitals were actually ready to receive in-patients.\n\n(d) PUBLIC DISPENSARIES\n\nThe Japanese adopted the attitude that public dispensaries, like civilian hospitals, were unlikely to contribute to the Japanese war effort and so were unworthy of assistance. As a result, many of the public dispensaries closed down, including those at Aberdeen, the Western and Central, Stanley, Tsun Wan, Sai Kung, Sham Teng, Ho Tung, and Fanling Dispensaries. The Kowloon City Dispensary, one of the best of its kind, was demolished during the widening of Kai Tak Airfield, and the Hung Hom Dispensary was damaged during the successful bombing of Kowloon Docks by Allied aircraft at Shaukiwan. Eastern (Wanchai), Shamshuipo, Yaumati, Taipo, Un Long, and Sheung Shui, Chinese doctors were permitted to carry on private practice and were occasionally (and at irregular intervals) given a few medical supplies by the Japanese. The Malariologist acted as Medical Officer to the Aberdeen Dispensary from February 1942 until he was interned in May 1943, since malaria became hyperendemic in the locality from lack of anti-malaria oil and other preventive measures. Early in September, 1945, steps were taken to reopen the majority of the dispensaries, but new buildings are necessary in the case of several of those situated on Hong Kong Island and in the New Territories, e.g., at Central, Aberdeen, Hung Hom, Kowloon City, Tsun Wan, Taipo. It is hoped that the Medical Department will undertake similar work at Sha Tau Kok, at one or two other centres where St. John Ambulance Association and Brigade operated before the Pacific War. (In parenthesis, it is also hoped that the Association will be able to maintain the hospital-dispensary on Cheung Chau Island for the time being).\n\n(d) WELFARE CENTRES\n\nAlthough the staffs of the Western, Wanchai, and Tsim Sha Tsui Welfare Centres were kept together in the hope that the Japanese would permit the writer to reopen them, his repeated requests were refused. The Violet Peel Centre was looted and then partially destroyed during an Allied aerial bombardment; the Western was taken over as quarters of the \"anti-epidemic unit,\" and the Tsim Sha Tsui became the Central District Bureau for Civil Affairs in Kowloon (registration, ration cards, etc.). On the reoccupation of Hong Kong, the Western and Tsim Sha Tsui Welfare Centres were reopened, and the former Maijima Hospital, Wanchai, was converted into a welfare centre. At the two last mentioned, social hygiene clinics were rapidly established in view of the very high incidence of venereal disease amongst the community and the resulting danger to the relieving forces.\n\nI. Refugee Settlements\n\nLacking suitable accommodation for the prisoners of war captured in 1941, the Japanese took over Ma Tau Chung, Argyle, and North Point Camps for internment purposes.\n\nEarly in 1942, the troops were transferred from North Point Camp to Shamshuipo, and the former camp was later used as a concentration point for destitutes prior to forcible repatriation. Many of the destitutes died before embarkation, many died in transit to barren islands, and some were reported, on reliable information, to have been \"disposed of\" before arrival at any disembarkation point.\n\nIn October, 1945, the Medical Department resumed control of North Point Camp, or rather what remained of it after war damage and looting.\n\nKam Tin Refugee Camp in the New Territories was closed in January, 1942, the British Commandant having been hacked to pieces on the 17th December, 1941.\n\nFanling Orphan Children's Camp, the inmates of which were transferred to the Hong Kong Jockey Club premises near Fanling immediately hostilities started, was taken over by the Japanese as barracks for their troops. King's Park Refugee Camp was the only one retained as such throughout the occupation. At the beginning of hostilities, the camp held approximately 1,300, of whom the majority were orphan girls. When the writer was permitted to revisit the camp three months after the surrender, only 400 remained alive. Most of the children were suffering from signs of advanced malnutrition; the stores of rice, beans, etc., which the writer had had delivered to the camp at the beginning of December, 1941, having been long exhausted. The Japanese Medical Authorities refused to be responsible in any way for the maintenance of the camp, and a body of local Chinese (including a number of the Clerical Staff of the Medical Department) undertook the care of the orphans. By the time the British Forces reoccupied Hong Kong, the number of children had been reduced to one-tenth of the original figure.\n\nIt is to be hoped that the Medical Department will take charge of the camp as before the war, since it serves a very useful purpose in caring for children without parents or relatives who are fit for discharge from hospital and in need of aftercare. The camp also provides medical and educational facilities for ill-treated mui-tsai (\"adopted\") children.\n\nJ. School Hygiene\n\nAll schools were closed at the commencement of hostilities in Hong Kong in order to obviate loss of life from concentrations struck by shells or bombs and because some of the schools were needed as relief hospitals, first-aid posts, medical stores, and the like. For several months after the surrender, the Japanese refused to allow schools to reopen. Later, a small number were permitted on undertaking to teach the Japanese language. Little scope existed for school medical work, with the possible exception of that carried out by the informal Hong Kong Welfare Committee in premises hired from St. Paul's Hospital and loaned in Kowloon for the children of those interned in the\n\nPage 60\n\nPage 61\n\n67\n\n17", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579161, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "page_number": 77, "title": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "content_text": "101\n\nled\n\n12\n\n100\n\nto be suffering from acute malaria. But for the prompt pooling of resources of personnel and materials by the Civil and Crown Forces, it is probable that a very serious epidemic of malaria would have attacked all branches of the community in the last quarter of 1945 owing to the regrettable neglect of this problem by the Japanese. As it was, it became necessary to enforce the taking of a tablet of atebrine (atecrine) daily, the wearing of long sleeves and long trousers from an hour before dusk to an hour after dawn and the use of mosquito nets by all members of the Forces in the Colony.\n\nSoon after the re-occupation of Hong Kong, arrangements were made for a specially adapted aeroplane to be shipped from Australia, to be reassembled on Kai Tak Airfield, Kowloon, and to carry out aerial spraying with a mixture of anti-malarial oil and D.D.T. dissolved in kerosene. The aeroplane was fitted with one 300-gallon tank under each wing and with a smaller auxiliary tank, to fly at a height of 100-300 feet at a speed of about 160 miles per hour and in a wind not exceeding six miles per hour. It was anticipated that this form of spraying should prove effective on marshy land, paddy fields, and the like (and would also be effective against flies), but that D.D.T. spraying of the interior of premises and the usual anti-malarial oiling and permanent draining of nullahs, ravines, and hill seepages would have to be continued.\n\nAs in pre-war days, the general Health Inspectorate (or rather such of the very reduced staff as remained in Hong Kong during the occupation) gave full co-operation to the anti-malarial staff and did their best to cope with the general mosquito nuisance. This work was considerably handicapped by three factors, inter alia. Firstly, the Japanese prohibited the collection and disposal of tins by the Health staff on the grounds that the tins would be gathered up at a later date and sent to Japan with all other forms of metal (factory parts, telephone wire, road studs, iron gates and railings, reinforcement from demolished buildings, and so on). In this way, heaps of tins were to be found in ruinous houses and formed potential reservoirs for mosquitoes after every heavy rain. Secondly, in an entirely ineffectual way to stop looting and destruction of property, the Japanese had hundreds of premises barricaded with barbed wire and forbade Health Inspectors to inspect and deal with mosquito-breeding and other nuisances. This had no effect in keeping determined looters from entering these same buildings at night and removing all the contents, including wooden floors, ceilings, and staircases, doors, windows, etc. In the Peak District alone, there were 500 looted residences. Thirdly, the Naval, Military Forces, and Gendarmerie refused to allow the Health Inspectorate to enter any areas occupied by them and to take appropriate anti-mosquito measures. This was a particularly unsatisfactory feature because the occupation forces seized property all over the Colony and, hence, provided nuisances and mosquito-breeding foci in areas which could otherwise have been effectively protected. Immediately the Department came into existence once more, a strenuous effort was made to overcome this state of affairs. Valuable co-operation was rendered by British Naval, Military, and Air Force units in ameliorating conditions.\n\n(b) BACTERIOLOGICAL INSTITUTE\n\nThe Bacteriological Institute remained open during the whole period of the Japanese occupation. In fact, the Japanese took over a teaching institution at 103 Austin Road, Kowloon, and established a second laboratory in the former Maternity Ward of the Kowloon Hospital. Although the Institute rendered valuable assistance in the earlier months of 1942 by carrying out special tests for Tweed Bay Hospital, Stanley Civilian Internment Camp, St. Paul's, the Nethersole, Mental, and Sai Ying Pun Hospitals, Hong Kong, its activities were very largely devoted to the preparation of anti-cholera vaccine and the examinations of rectal swabs from would-be immigrants or contacts with cases of cholera and typhoid. The invading authorities refused to make any provision for the care and feeding of laboratory animals, and the large majority of these had died before the retaking of Hong Kong, despite the devoted sacrifices made by the staff of the Institute. This state of affairs had a very depressing effect on Professor R. C. Robertson, M.C., former Lecturer in Pathology to the University of Hong Kong and Medical Officer in charge of the Victoria Mortuary. After putting up a courageous fight, he found the situation too difficult and died under tragic circumstances in the early summer of 1942.\n\nMuch of the cholera vaccine produced by the Japanese, especially in Kowloon, proved to be heavily contaminated and had to be condemned owing to its very serious effects on those inoculated with it. The anti-smallpox vaccine also proved to be without any potency whatever and had to be destroyed.\n\nIt would appear that the interest taken by the Japanese in performing tens of thousands of rectal swab tests and in inoculating the community with cholera vaccine was not unconnected with the necessity for the Japanese Medical Department to raise revenue to cover its expenditure. Out of the first ten thousand rectal swabs examined at the Bacteriological Institute, during a period, be it said, of cholera prevalence, only one proved positive. This was quite understandable, for to produce a growth, two prerequisites are essential; firstly, the media used must be suitable, and the swab must not have dried off after removal from the rectum before being applied to the culture tube. No steps were taken in the one instance mentioned, although it would only be fair to record the fact that several contacts with cholera patients who were alleged to be carriers were detained for varying periods at the Infectious Diseases Hospitals in Kennedy Town and Lai Chi Kok. It should also be noted that very large numbers of cholera inoculations were given free at ferry crossings and in the streets, but no amount of protests and representations on the part of the writer were successful in persuading the Authorities to order these inoculation units to take aseptic precautions, although a tremendous improvement was noted on occasions. It is hardly to be wondered at, under these circumstances, that all who could afford the fee charged at special inoculation centres were glad to avoid being pricked with a needle that had already done service on a half-dozen or more persons without previous sterilization. Many inflamed arms and abscesses were encountered following these mass infected inoculations.\n\n(c) CHEMICAL LABORATORY\n\nThe Chemical Laboratory was taken over by the Japanese Military Authorities soon after the surrender in 1941 and ceased to be available for the examination of works samples, food, drugs, or biochemical work. In the middle of 1942, however, the writer was able to persuade the Japanese Medical Authorities that such laboratory facilities would be of considerable assistance and could be made self-supporting by charging fees for reports on drugs, etc. As a result, and since the Military Authorities refused any co-operation, a duplicate laboratory was fitted out in the same building and at considerable expense, although the bulk of the actual chemicals and apparatus had been seized from enemy sources in the town. In view of the high prices charged for drugs (the importation of which ceased when the Colony was captured, with the exception of a relatively small quantity of Japanese origin), the counterfeiting of drugs like atebrine, quinine, sulfanilamide, and vitamins became very prevalent. To give an example, eight out of ten samples of sulfapyridine which the writer needed for outbreaks of dysentery (especially in Shamshuipo Military Internment Camp) proved to be inert or heavily adulterated. The testing of powder, tablets, and solutions purporting to contain...", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579162, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "page_number": 78, "title": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "content_text": "14\n\n102\n\nthiamin chloride was of particular importance in view of the percentage of beri-beri producing rations issued to the internment camps and to the very rapid increase in vitamin B deficiency amongst the general population.\n\nAs a matter of interest, it was found that ampoules of vitamin B prepared by a reputable local Chinese firm of manufacturing chemists during the occupation only contained 6 milligrammes instead of 10 milligrammes per cubic centimetre.\n\nValuable work was, also, carried out by the senior Chinese member of the Government Chemists' staff (under a very able research chemist appointed by the Japanese). The details of their work must necessarily remain confidential. Suffice to say, both the officer concerned (David Louie) and his wife who had been in the Government Nursing Service were arrested by the Gendarmerie, and later, were executed.\n\nOwing to the prompt action taken by the research chemist referred to above to prevent looting, both chemical laboratories were handed over practically complete when the Medical Department resumed control once more in August, 1945.\n\n(a) HOSPITALS\n\nH. Hospitals, Outpatients' Departments\n\nI\n\nAlmost immediately after their entry into Kowloon, the Japanese took over the Kowloon Hospital and the Central British School Hospital, both of which contained those wounded by air and land attack and by looters who became active soon after the evacuation of Kowloon by the Police Force on the 11th December, 1941. The majority of the patients from these hospitals still requiring in-patient treatment were moved to the Kwong Wah Hospital. Kowloon Hospital served as a Japanese Military Hospital throughout the occupation, but in September, 1945, the 800 sick and wounded Japanese troops (mostly from Canton and Southern Kwang Tung) were transferred to La Salle College Hospital. St. Theresa's Hospital was also taken over by the Japanese in December, 1941, but was used as a military hospital for British troops for a few months in 1942-1943. In 1944 the hospital was taken over for Japanese patients, mostly suffering from venereal disease. Finally, in August, 1945, it reverted to the use of British (Indian) sick pending their evacuation by hospital ship to India. The Central British School Hospital was utilised for Japanese troops until the late Spring of 1945, when it was handed over to the Royal Army Medical Corps in place of Bowen Road Military Hospital on Hong Kong Island, which remained closed until the reoccupation of Hong Kong. After the arrival of the British Forces, the Central British School Hospital became the main Royal Air Force Field Hospital. La Salle College Hospital which had been used as a reserve hospital at the outbreak of war was taken over by the Japanese towards the end of January, 1942. The European staff were interned in Stanley Civilian Internment Camp. Apart from a few beds in the Precious Blood Hospital, the Kwong Wah Hospital with 200 to 300 beds was the only general hospital available for all sections of the community on the Kowloon Peninsula.\n\nThe Medical Superintendent and his staff laboured under exceptional difficulties as regards food and medical supplies, and the attitude of the Japanese was generally unfavourable. By exemplary courage, the Superintendent and his Matron kept the staff of the hospital together and the hospital rendered invaluable service throughout the occupation.\n\nLai Chi Kok Infectious Diseases Hospital was captured by the Japanese forces at 10 a.m. on the 11th December, 1941. The patients were evacuated to the Kwong Wah Hospital on the 13th December, 1941, and the hospital was not reopened again for the reception of cases of infectious disease until\n\n15\n\n103\n\nthe 5th February, 1942. The hospital narrowly escaped destruction on the 2nd September, 1943, when Allied aircraft successfully bombed and set on fire the oil reservoirs of the Standard Oil Company. On Hong Kong Island the Japanese took over the Queen Mary Hospital a month after the surrender. During hostilities, some four hundred naval and military and rather more than twice that number of civilian casualties were attended by the surgical unit, in this hospital. Many of these patients were on extensions and fracture boards when the Japanese ordered the writer to evacuate the hospital. The removal was carried out (after ineffectual protests) to the Royal Naval Hospital, Bowen Road Military Hospital, University and St. Stephen's Relief Hospitals and to the Tung Wah Hospital.\n\nThe Queen Mary Hospital became an institution for Japanese wounded. It was finally evacuated by the invading forces early in September, 1945. For some time prior to this, the hospital had been used largely as a barracks. The condition in which it was left beggared description. Much of the hospital equipment had been removed or destroyed and, amongst other missing items, not one sheet was to be found. After a skeleton staff of doctors and sisters transferred from Stanley Camp had worked hard for a period of four weeks, it was possible to reopen one floor (about 200 beds) of the hospital on the 1st October, 1945.\n\nIn\n\nThe Japanese Naval Forces took over the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital from the British Military Authorities shortly after the surrender and Indian sick and wounded troops were moved to St. Albert's Military Hospital and, later, to Bowen Road Military Hospital. The Tung Wah Eastern Hospital was used chiefly for Japanese patients suffering from venereal diseases. After the transfer of Japanese to the Kowloon Peninsula, the hospital was cleared and re-equipped and opened by His Excellency Admiral Cecil Harcourt, Commander-in-Chief of the British Relief Forces, on the 1st October, 1945.\n\nDuring January, February and March, 1942, the Matilda, War Memorial, University, St. Stephen's and Sai Ying Pun Hospitals were evacuated. April, 1942, the writer obtained permission for the Sai Ying Pun Hospital to be reopened for patients since the Tung Wah, Nethersole, St. Paul's and St. Francis Hospitals proved inadequate to meet the needs of the population, on the Island. Later the Sai Ying Pun (General) and the Frau Yuk (Maternity) TSAM Hospitals were closed by the Japanese, allegedly owing to lack of funds available to the Japanese Medical Department. Both hospitals were reopened within four days after the collapse of the Japanese resistance in August, 1945. The Mental Hospital remained open throughout the occupation, although the rations made available by the Japanese ensured that the majority of the patients would die of malnutrition within a short time of admission.\n\nThe Infectious Diseases Hospital at Kennedy Town was maintained until 1944 when it was replaced by a group of private residences at Pokfulam. The whole of the hospital buildings and much of the Lepers Settlement adjoining became ruinous and the former was eventually razed to the ground. Apart from the hospitals referred to in the foregoing paragraphs, small camps hospitals were established in the Shamshuipo, Argyle and Ma Tan Chung TAU Military Internment Camps, and in Stanley Civilian Internment Camp (Tweed Bay Hospital). Details relating to the work done at Tweed Bay Hospital are included in the appendix to this report.\n\n(b) ALMONER'S DEPARTMENT\n\nIn describing conditions in the hospital service from 1942-1945, mention should be made of the Almoner's Department. Owing to the occupation of the main Government civil hospitals and to the internment of the Almoner, the major part of the Almoner's staff went to Free China.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579163, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "page_number": 79, "title": "CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947", "content_text": "105\n\n104\n\nThe Almoner, however, carried out most valuable work of a somewhat different kind, though still connected with the welfare of individuals and groups. As the first Chairman, and later, Deputy Chairman of the International Welfare Committee in Stanley Civilian Internment Camp, she formed a very necessary link with the Hong Kong Informal Welfare Committee formed by the writer as a substitute for a Red Cross organisation which was vetoed by the Japanese Authorities in the earlier stages of their occupation. The International Welfare Committee ascertained what was needed for the inmates of Stanley Camp and for the camp hospital and communicated them to the Hong Kong Committee.\n\nThe work of the International Welfare Committee, of which the Honourable Mr. F. C. Gimson, Colonial Secretary and head of the Camp, became Chairman in the summer of 1942, is of such importance as to warrant the inclusion of a copy of the Almoner's (Deputy Chairman) account as an appendix to this report, q.v.\n\n(c) OUTPATIENTS' DEPARTMENTS\n\nOutpatient Departments continued to function on a much reduced basis at St. Paul's Hospital until the staff quarters and other premises suffered serious damage from Allied air bombardment in January, 1945, and at the Nethersole, Tung Wah, Kwang Wah, and, for limited periods, the Sai Ying Pun Hospitals. Outpatient activities at Queen's Road Outpatients' Departments at the Queen Mary and Kowloon Hospitals were restarted in September, 1945, before the hospitals were actually ready to receive in-patients.\n\n(4) PUBLIC DISPENSARIES\n\nThe Japanese adopted the attitude that public dispensaries, like civilian hospitals, were unlikely to contribute to the Japanese war effort and so were unworthy of assistance. As a result, many of the public dispensaries closed down, including that at Aberdeen, the Western and Central, Stanley, Tsun Wan, Sai Kung, Sham Shui Po, Ho Tung, and Fanling Dispensaries. The Kowloon City Dispensary, one of the best of its kind, was demolished during the widening of Kai Tak Airfield, and the Hung Hom Dispensary was damaged during the successful bombing of Kowloon Docks by Allied aircraft. At Shaukiwan, Eastern (Wanchai), Shamshuipo, Yaumati, Taipo, Un Long, and Sheung Shui, Chinese doctors were permitted to carry on private practice and were occasionally (and at irregular intervals) given a few medical supplies by the Japanese. The Malariologist acted as Medical Officer to the Aberdeen Dispensary from February 1942 until he was interned in May 1943, since malaria became hyperendemic in the locality from lack of anti-malaria oil and other preventive measures. Early in September, 1945, steps were taken to reopen the majority of the dispensaries, but new buildings are necessary in the case of several of those situated on Hong Kong Island and in the New Territories, e.g., at Central, Aberdeen, Hung Hom, Kowloon City, Tsun Wan, Taipo. It is hoped that the Medical Department will undertake similar work at Sha Tau Kok, at one or two other centres where St. John Ambulance Association and Brigade operated before the Pacific War. (In parenthesis, it is also hoped that the Association will be able to maintain the hospital-dispensary on Cheung Chau Island for the time being).\n\n(d) WELFARE CENTRES\n\nAlthough the staffs of the Western, Wanchai, and Tsim Sha Tsui Welfare Centres were kept together in the hope that the Japanese would permit the writer to reopen them, his repeated requests were refused. The Violet Peel Centre was looted and then partially destroyed during an Allied aerial bombardment; the Western was taken over as quarters of the \"anti-epidemic unit\" and the Tsim Sha Tsui became the Central District Bureau for Civil Affairs in Kowloon (registration, ration cards, etc.). On the reoccupation of Hong Kong, the Western and Tsim Sha Tsui Welfare Centres were reopened, and the former Maijima Hospital, Wanchai, was converted into a welfare centre. At the two last mentioned, social hygiene clinics were rapidly established in view of the very high incidence of venereal disease amongst the community and the resulting danger to the relieving forces.\n\nI. Refugee Settlements\n\nLacking suitable accommodation for the prisoners of war captured in 1941, the Japanese took over Ma Tau Chung, Argyle, and North Point Camps for internment purposes.\n\nEarly in 1942, the troops were transferred from North Point Camp to Shamshuipo, and the former camp was later used as a concentration point for destitutes prior to forcible \"repatriation\". Many of the destitutes died before embarkation, many died in transit to barren islands, and some were reported, on reliable information, to have been \"disposed of\" before arrival at any disembarkation point.\n\nIn October, 1945, the Medical Department resumed control of North Point Camp, or rather what remained of it after war damage and looting.\n\nKam Tin Refugee Camp in the New Territories was closed in January, 1942, the British Commandant having been hacked to pieces on the 17th December, 1941.\n\nFanling Orphan Children's Camp, the inmates of which were transferred to the Hong Kong Jockey Club premises near Fanling immediately hostilities started, was taken over by the Japanese as barracks for their troops. King's Park Refugee Camp was the only one retained as such throughout the occupation. At the beginning of hostilities, the camp held approximately 1,300, of whom the majority were orphan girls. When the writer was permitted to revisit the camp three months after the surrender, only 400 remained alive. Most of the children were suffering from signs of advanced malnutrition; the stores of rice, beans, etc., which the writer had had delivered to the camp at the beginning of December, 1941, having been long exhausted. The Japanese Medical Authorities refused to be responsible in any way for the maintenance of the camp, and a body of local Chinese (including a number of the Clerical Staff of the Medical Department) undertook the care of the orphans. By the time the British Forces reoccupied Hong Kong, the number of children had been reduced to one-tenth of the original figure.\n\nIt is to be hoped that the Medical Department will take charge of the camp as before the war, since it serves a very useful purpose in caring for children without parents or relatives who are fit for discharge from hospital and in need of aftercare. The camp also provides medical and educational facilities for ill-treated mui-tsai (\"adopted\" children).\n\nJ. School Hygiene\n\nAll schools were closed at the commencement of hostilities in Hong Kong in order to obviate loss of life from concentrations struck by shells or bombs and because some of the schools were needed as relief hospitals, first-aid posts, medical stores, and the like. For several months after the surrender, the Japanese refused to allow schools to reopen. Later, a small number were permitted on undertaking to teach the Japanese language. Little scope existed for school medical work, with the possible exception of that carried out by the informal Hong Kong Welfare Committee in premises hired from St. Paul's Hospital and loaned in Kowloon for the children of those interned in the camp.\n\n17\n\n9", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-2 Reports on current situation- medical work 3-3-1946 - 12-5-1947.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 579385, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "page_number": 64, "title": "CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946", "content_text": "Date. \n\nDistrict. \n\nTime. \n\n15. Eastern. 16. Emergency Unit Hong Kong. 17. Eastern. 18. Upper Levels. 19. Western. 20. Emergency Unit Hong Kong. 21. Western. 23.12.41. Eastern. 40. 23.12.41 63\n\nspot advised against such an attempt during daylight hours owing to the close proximity of the enemy and would not allow the party past Wong Chuk Hang Path. There was small spasmodic fire. The party observed two or three lorries lying across the road with some dead Naval ratings in them. They had been ambushed there a day or two previously. Our troops had re-taken the position since and manned a nearby pill box. The enemy were on Shouson Hill and also on Mount Cameron from which last they were in the process of retiring. Whilst Police were still there the Military in the Pill box received orders to open fire with machine guns on the enemy at Mount Cameron which they did. The Police party volunteered to make a second attempt later. The same party, except that Mr. Fay, Assistant Superintendent of Police, replaced Mr. Wright Nooth, proceeded again to Aberdeen in the evening to make a second attempt but this time were stopped at the Naval Headquarters at the Aberdeen Industrial School by Commander Millet and were not allowed to go on, so nothing further transpired. The party was informed that they could not undertake the work unless they were in a Military convoy as it was considered too dangerous. (See Entry No.16 of 23.12.41 and Entry No.1 of 25.12.41 for third, and fourth (successful) attempts.)\n\np.m. The British line withdrew to Caroline Hill Road, the Monument and the Pharsee Cemetery.\n\n17.00 The Unit was called out on a false report that looting was taking place at the Central Cinema.\n\n19.00 Sub Inspector Madgewick and a Police party who were acting as a guard to the Military Hospital withdrew from the Jockey Club, with the Commissioner of Police's and Director of Medical Services' approval, given in case the enemy broke through and found an armed party in the hospital.\n\n20.45 A report was received that signalling was being carried on from the Nethersole Hospital. Police under Mr. Wright Nooth, Assistant Superintendent of Police, searched and remained on the roof for two hours without result.\n\n21.30 A report was made to the Station that the Japanese had landed at Eastern Street. Police visited but found it to be untrue.\n\n22.00 The Emergency Unit Europeans, owing to a shortage of manpower, formed part of a patrol covering a section of the waterfront. The Bata Shoe shop was found deserted and the stock was taken to Police Headquarters and handed over to the Storekeeper.\n\n23.59 A Police patrol under L. S. A. 148 MacDonald reported the landing of Japanese troops at the China Merchants Wharf. Police Headquarters were informed and Mr. Calthrop, Senior Superintendent of Police, passed on the information to the Military. Other Police, however, visited but found no traces of them. (As no further news of this landing was ever received, it seems definitely to have been an erroneous report.)\n\n* 1\n\n06.30 At 06.30 hours, at the request of Col. Stewart, the Officer Commanding East Brigade, Mr. Luscombe, Assistant Superintendent of Police, took a volunteer party of Police consisting of himself, P.S. A.53 Brown, P.S.A. 185 Galvin, L. S. A.124 Oakley, L. S. A. 34 Flaherty to the Imperial Chemical Industries Godowns in Great George Street used for food storage by the Food Controller, about 200 yards in front of our front line in Percival Street. Col. Stewart complained that looting was going on and that the looters were masking his line.", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-592-4 Reports on current situation- Police 14-11-1945 - 1-7-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 582568, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-595-9 The British Military Administration of Hong Kong- report- 1946 11-7-1946 - 2-9-1946", "page_number": 17, "title": "CO129-595-9 The British Military Administration of Hong Kong- report- 1946 11-7-1946 - 2-9-1946", "content_text": "## Prevention of Disease and Unrest.\n\n(4)\n\n7. In short, the Colony was too pre-occupied in looking forward and in consolidating the initial advantage which it seemed to have gained over its neighbours, to worry unduly about the privations and restrictions to which it was still subjected. And it was natural, perhaps, in a world in which personal problems and opportunities assumed such impressive proportions, that evidences of a larger social conscience should be noticeably lacking. No new figures emerged as the leaders of Chinese opinion, and the Administration relied upon the Government's pre-war Chinese advisers; such disapproval as there was from certain sections of the public was at no time strong enough to produce alternative candidates.\n\n8. It may be reckoned to the great good fortune of Hong Kong and to its neighbouring areas that no epidemic of infectious disease appeared in the first few months of the re-occupation; for the Colony would have been in no position to meet it. This immunity was as surprising as it was fortunate, since it would be safe to say that during the later stages of the Japanese occupation, the ordinary rules of public hygiene had been completely ignored. Eighty per cent of the population showed signs of malnutrition in some form or other, and both hospitals and out-patient clinics were pitifully inadequate. A serious attempt at alleviating these conditions, however, depended upon other considerations which required immediate attention. Garbage and refuse had to be cleared from every back-street and alleyway, and even from the main thoroughfares where they had been allowed to accumulate in huge heaps. Drains and nullahs had to be repaired and cleaned; improvisations had to be devised to replace costly sanitary fittings which had been ruthlessly torn down; the reservoir filters had to be renewed; and some attempt had to be made to remedy the prevalence of malaria throughout the Colony due to four years' cynical neglect of the Colony's anti-malarial works. Conservancy arrangements had to be completely re-organized, and the immediate problems of routine sanitation had to be dealt with piecemeal and by compromise. With generous assistance from the service medical authorities, the two Government hospitals and the larger Chinese hospitals were rehabilitated, and the Administration assumed financial responsibility for the Nethersole and French Hospitals. Out-patient dispensaries and health centres were established and extended to outlying areas.\n\n(5)\n\n9. The effects of the re-organization and extension of the medical and sanitary services were soon apparent, but it was several months before the possibility of being able to stem an outbreak of infectious disease could be contemplated with any justifiable confidence, since the efforts of the medical authorities were impeded at every turn by the failure of expected supplies and delay in the arrival of key personnel.\n\n10. Lack of personnel, however, assumed even more alarming proportions in the case of the police force than of the medical service, since, for the first three months of the Administration, the force was required to operate with a maximum of 95 officers of the rank of inspector and above, out of an approved war establishment of 321. Reliance upon military assistance in the preservation of law and order and the prevention of unrest was, therefore, a feature not only of the initial stages but of the whole period of the Administration. Again, the Colony was fortunate in that at no time did the behaviour of the population give serious cause for alarm. Armed robberies and piracies occurred, but these were never out of hand and never exceeded what might reasonably have been expected. Minor complications in the policing of the Colony arose from the presence throughout the period of large numbers of servicemen of different nationalities and, in particular, of the gendarmerie attached to the large bodies of Chinese troops in transit through Hong Kong. Temporary embarrassments were also caused by the disposal of certain secret service organizations whose help was enlisted immediately following the Japanese surrender, and by the sporadic activities of Kuomintang and Communist sympathisers.\n\n11. The provision by the services of the greater part of the personnel for the maintenance of law and order had a further and more far-reaching effect; it made possible the first and most important stages in the complete re-organization of the rank and file of the local police force. The results of these innovations are yet to be proved, but the fact that so ambitious a scheme could be initiated in the early days of the Military Administration is, perhaps, worthy of record.\n\n## Page 20", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-595-9 The British Military Administration of Hong Kong- report- 1946 11-7-1946 - 2-9-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 582622, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-595-9 The British Military Administration of Hong Kong- report- 1946 11-7-1946 - 2-9-1946", "page_number": 71, "title": "CO129-595-9 The British Military Administration of Hong Kong- report- 1946 11-7-1946 - 2-9-1946", "content_text": "# 8 - X - Xi\n\nThe present position is also due in some measure to the entirely fortuitous freedom from any epidemics of infectious disease, which the Colony has at no time during the period under review been in a position to face. This freedom from epidemics is as surprising as it is fortunate. Compared with 1941, the Colony is virtually overrun with rats, and a vaccination campaign planned two months ago has had to be postponed owing to the insufficiency of calf lymph. With the colder weather, the danger of a cholera epidemic has been somewhat removed. The incidence of tuberculosis is believed to be very high as a natural consequence of years of under-nourishment.\n\n## 43.\n\nIn September, malaria was rife throughout the Colony, but labour has now been engaged in anti-malarial work, and stream and swamp drainage are being undertaken. The proposed aerial spraying of the island has not yet been possible, but considerable groundwork has been done with the co-operation of the Services.\n\n## 44.\n\nSocial hygiene presents a more acute problem than before the war. 66% of venereal cases are syphilitic. Various palliative measures have been taken in consultation with the Services, amongst them being the proposed declaration of V.D. as a notifiable disease, an ambitious scheme for the hospitalization of venereal cases, and the provision of urgently needed arsenical preparations by the Naval and Military authorities.\n\n## 45.\n\nThe sanitation problem has been rendered more difficult by the debris and rubbish which has collected in unoccupied and damaged houses and the almost universal Japanese-occupation practice of dumping garbage in out-of-the-way places. Owing to the shortage of materials for lime washing and kerosene emulsion, only 10% of Chinese tenement floors have so far been cleansed. The shortage of garbage cans and the inadequacy of transport has made it necessary to organize a 24-hour service for refuse removal. Conservancy requirements will shortly be met by the improvisation of dry latrine pans and night-soil buckets, and by the implementation of the night-soil junks with landing craft. The more important markets are in reasonably good condition. The R.N. Medical authorities are responsible for Port Health work, and the R.A.F. medical authorities for that of the airport at Kai Tak.\n\n## 46.\n\nThe Administration has assumed financial responsibility for the Nethersole and French Hospitals, and these served a vital purpose during the period of rehabilitation of the Queen Mary and Kowloon Hospitals, which were in a chaotic condition. Some 400 beds are already available in the two latter hospitals, and full medical and surgical facilities are now restored. The Tsan Yuk Maternity Hospital and the Mental Hospital are also in full operation. A wing of the former Government Civil Hospital has been adapted for isolation purposes in place of the Kennedy Town Hospital and the Lai Chi Kok Hospital, of which the former was destroyed and the latter unfit for use.\n\n## 111", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-595-9 The British Military Administration of Hong Kong- report- 1946 11-7-1946 - 2-9-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 582659, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-595-9 The British Military Administration of Hong Kong- report- 1946 11-7-1946 - 2-9-1946", "page_number": 108, "title": "CO129-595-9 The British Military Administration of Hong Kong- report- 1946 11-7-1946 - 2-9-1946", "content_text": "## B. Slaughterhouses\n\n148\n\nTwo slaughterhouses are in operation but the number of animals slaughtered is small compared to pre-war figures. Undoubtedly much slaughtering is done outside of the markets and it is hoped to bring the matter under control shortly. As usual, it is mainly a question of shortage of staff.\n\n## Markets\n\nThe more important markets are in reasonably good condition and the Works Branch is endeavouring to restore electric light, running water and the usual stall fittings so that they might be in working order by the New Year.\n\nThere seems to be some legal doubt as to the Administration's right to charge license fees just yet or to terminate agreements made between stallholders and the Japanese.\n\n## Restaurants and Eating Houses\n\nConsiderable attention was paid to these premises formerly and, in 1940 and 1941, the conditions for licensing became more stringent but many abuses have arisen during the period of occupation. Proprietors have been advised to put their places in order in readiness for new licences, which it is expected to issue shortly.\n\n## Factories and Workshops\n\nOwing to shortage of materials, skilled labour and electric power and gas, very little manufacturing is going on but this will naturally increase as soon as general conditions improve.\n\n## Port (& Airport) Health and Sanitation\n\nThe R.N. Medical Authorities are responsible for Port Health Work and the R.A.F. Medical Authorities for that of the airport at Kai Tak but it is obvious that, when Civil Government is re-established, a civilian Port Health Officer must be appointed and assume full responsibility for the health work of the Port.\n\nThe work of the Port Health sub-department in Hong Kong is exceptionally important and it is rather disconcerting that no information has been received regarding the selection of a Port Health Officer and Port Health Inspector for Hong Kong.\n\nIt will take time for the Officer selected to become acquainted with local conditions and to acquire sufficient knowledge of local Ordinances and Regulations to enable them to do their work efficiently.\n\nConsequently, the question of providing the necessary staff and equipment for the Port Health Branch should receive consideration as a matter of urgency.\n\n## Hospitals and Dispensaries\n\nWith the object of re-establishing clinical facilities for the local population at the earliest possible moment efforts were immediately begun to reopen the Queen Mary and Kowloon Hospitals and to establish once again the out-patient work of the various dispensaries. In achieving this object buildings had first to be cleared and reconditioned, staff had to be found and, finally, drugs and other medical supplies had to be obtained. It is fortunate that, during the short latent period that existed while this work was being got under way, use could be made of the Nethersole Hospital, which had been taken over undamaged. The wisdom of the earlier decision to provide Government aid to this and certain other private and missionary institutions was therefore fully justified.\n\nIt might be well to pass in brief review the achievement of the past three months in the medical institutions of the Colony:\n\n### QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL\n\nThis fine modern building, only opened in April 1937, whose seven floors were capable of holding 600 beds, and whose internal structure, excellent design and magnificent site combined to make it a truly outstanding hospital,", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-595-9 The British Military Administration of Hong Kong- report- 1946 11-7-1946 - 2-9-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 }, { "id": 582661, "series_id": 27, "series_slug": "histsyn-co129-engine", "series_title": "CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案", "series_use_hku_proxy": false, "document_key": "CO129-595-9 The British Military Administration of Hong Kong- report- 1946 11-7-1946 - 2-9-1946", "page_number": 110, "title": "CO129-595-9 The British Military Administration of Hong Kong- report- 1946 11-7-1946 - 2-9-1946", "content_text": "## Medical Services\n\nThe wing of the old G.C.H. Hospital has been adapted for use as an Isolation Hospital and a sufficiency of beds has been provided. Up to date, the only call made upon these beds has been for the treatment of diphtheria cases, of which about 5 cases and a number of carriers have been admitted for treatment. On the Kowloon side, some of the lower blocks of buildings of the Lai Chi Kok Hospital have been reconditioned for use as an Infectious Diseases Hospital. It is a matter of great good fortune that no serious outbreak of contagious disease has yet occurred in the Colony.\n\n### Medical Posts\n\nIn the absence of the usual facilities for private medical practice, the Medical Branch maintains a series of 3 Medical Posts at which Civil Affairs Personnel, Essential Service Workers, and the wives and families of Volunteers receive medical aid. These posts, which have filled a very real need, are absorbing the whole time of 5 capable medical officers and a staff of nurses and dispensers.\n\n### Dental Service\n\nEssential dental service for a clientele similar to that served by the Medical Posts has been provided by two clinics, both of which are working at full pressure all the time.\n\n### Out Patient Dispensaries and Health Centres\n\nThe weekly graph of out-patient attendance has shown a steady increase from the time of the re-occupation up to the present date. The total daily attendance at the various centres now numbers considerably over 1,000 patients, of whom over 350 are seen in the Queen's Road Dispensary, about the same number in the Kowloon Hospital, and the remainder in the other clinics.\n\n### Maternal and Child Welfare\n\nCentres for this work have been re-established in four places. Supplementary milk feedings have been arranged for when needed, and plans have been completed for the wholesale distribution of a dish of nourishing congee with high vitamin and calcium content to expectant and nursing mothers.\n\n### Rural Dispensaries\n\nMost villagers and fisherfolk are heavily infected with malaria. Naval, Army, and R.A.F. medical personnel have been doing magnificent work in outlying places, both as regards medical treatment and anti-malarial work. Thanks to the Commandos, medical facilities are better at Taipo and Fanling than ever before. Two Government Dispensaries have been re-opened, and suitable premises have been acquired in other villages, where dispensaries will be opened shortly.\n\n### Nutrition Survey\n\nA nutrition survey has been commenced in a representative cross-section of the population. This is being carried out by a staff of three doctors and two whole-time health visitors in cooperation with the Government Biochemist.\n\n### Assistance to Non-Government Hospitals\n\nAssistance has been rendered with very satisfactory results to the Nethersole and French Hospitals. Without depriving the Hospitals of their individuality, the Administration has assumed financial support of their work. The Nethersole has functioned at full capacity from the date of re-occupation and has done excellent work. In the case of the French Hospital, a scheme has just been put into operation whereby the provision of 80 charity beds is being financed by the Administration, and a resident doctor is being provided.\n\n### Miscellaneous Calls for Service\n\nThese have been answered as far as possible. Orphanages and other charitable institutions have been visited from time to time, and medical advice given. Where needed, medicines and other supplies have been sent. A whole-time medical officer and nurse have been sent to Rosary Hill, where the possibility of an outbreak of diphtheria was recently averted by rapid and efficient preventive measures. Requests for the provision of medicines and advice on the part of various firms and organisations have been met as far as possible with the limited supplies available.\n\n## Looking Towards the Future\n\nThere are certain objectives, some close at hand and others in further perspective, that must be held constantly in view:\n\nOf early and paramount importance is the arrival of our own supplies of drugs and equipment. The work of these early months has been greatly handicapped by the absence of adequate supplies of items such as mepacrine, sulfadiazine, penicillin, smallpox vaccine, sera, antitoxins, and other preparations. The Services have generously come to our aid as far as possible, but it is high time that the Civil Administration should be able to depend entirely upon its own resources.\n\nPage 110\nPage 111", "txt_file_path": "txt/2diw2n4r2/CO129-595-9 The British Military Administration of Hong Kong- report- 1946 11-7-1946 - 2-9-1946.txt", "external_url": "", "rank": 0 } ]