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9.--Certificates of Identity to Chinese entering the United States of America, &c.

Ordinance No. 3 of 1898.

The number of certificates issued during the years 1904 and 1905 was;

1904.

1905.

To the United States,

8

1

11

Hawaiian Islands, Philippines,

2

0

.22

6

32

7

10.-Chinese Postal Hongs and Chinese Postmen.

Government Notifications Nos. 273 and 274 of 1902.

The number of Postal Hongs licensed during the year was 50 and of letter-carriers 130, as against 36 and 137 in 1904.

From the 1st May next the licensing will be transferred to the Post Office.

11. Tung Wah Hospital. Ordinances No. 1 of 1870 and No. 9 of 1904.

(See Tables VIII a to VIII c and Appendix B.)

The names of the Directors of the Tung Wah Hospital elected on the 19th November, 1905, are:-

Tang Chi Ngong, of the Hung Ue Bank, Chairman. Pang Chin Wan, of the Kwan Yik Tai Firm.

Leung Ngan Pan, of Mei Kee & Co.

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Ng Li Hing, of the Ng Yuen Hing Firm.

Tang Lap Ting, of the Wing Cheung Chán Firm.

Chan King Wan, of the Yau Cheung Firm.

Kwan Tso Ching, of the Pacific Steamship Co.

Chan Ngok Lim, of the I On Insurance Co.

Ip Shun Kam, of Reiss & Co.

She Po Sham, of the Hongkong Hotel.

Tsui Oi Tong, of the Hang Shang Pawnshop.

Chan Lin Sz, of the Him Yik.

Chu Tsz Hing, of the Tak Shing Firm. Cheung Tso Ting, of the Tseung Hing Firm. Li Shiu Cho, of the Tai Lung Firm.

Cheung Lai Po, of the Yan Cheung Firm.

The accounts will be found in Appendix B.

The Chairman and the two members who are jointly responsible with him for the funds of the Hospital are now elected by the Committee and not by the subscribers.

The funds of the Hospital are in a satisfactory condition, the credit balance being increased during the year by $1,900. The expenditure for the year was $67,644, as against $64,250 in 1903. The increase is partly due to additional expenditure on the Plague Hospital in order that the Hospital may be available at any time.

The practice of placing bodies in the streets particularly those of infants, had become such a public scandal that in March last Mr. FUNG WA CHUN and Mr. LAU CHU PAK, Mem- bers of the Saintary Board, consulted me as to what steps could be taken to stop it. The growth of the practice is due to dread of the consequences of death having resulted from plague, and it was decided to try what could be done to lessen this fear. Application was made for permission for the Tung Wah Hospital to open offices in various parts of the town and to have in attendance a licentiate of the Chinese College of Medicine and an interpreter ; sick persons would then have their complaint diagnosed by a competent doctor, and in case of infectious disease (where the removal of the patient and the disinfection of the premises were