Directory_and_Chronicle_1920 — Page 744

Directories & Chronicles 香港指南 All

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with every modern appointment and affording accommodation for 200 patients. It is ably conducted by a staff of medical officers. A new hospital has recently been constructed on a large scale accommodating over 500 patients. This will be one of the finest and most up-to-date hospitals in the Far East.

A direct steamship service is maintained twice a week by the South Manchuria Railway Company between Dairen and Shanghai, one outward bound steamer and one homeward bound steamer calling at Tsingtao each week, by which means communication is obtained between Shanghai and the trans-Siberian Route to Europe. Regular and "half regular" steamship services are maintained to and from all the important ports of Japan, U.S.A., China and Chosen (Korea). Shanghai can be reached in 42 hours, Chemulpo in 24 hours, and Moji and Nagasaki in about 50 hours.

For 1918, the trade of Dairen (imports and exports by steamers and junks) amounted to Hk. Tls. 174,007,230, viz., 3,447,599 tons. The Imports were 956,545 tons valued at Hk. Tls. 81,645,177; and the Exports, 2,491,154 tons valued at Hk. Tls. 92,362,053. According to the census taken in August, 1919, the Japanese population of the town and suburbs was 51,697 in 12,447 houses. Chinese numbered 124,369 in 19,359 houses, and other nationals totalled 113 in 36 houses, the total population being 176,179 in 31,839 houses.

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