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10. Tung Wa Hospital. Ordinances No. 1 of 1870 and No. 9 of 1904.

(See Table VIII and Appendix B.)

The names of the Directors of the Tung Wa Hospital elected on the 9th December,

1906, are:-

Ho TAI-SHANG of Jardine Matheson & Co.

CHU SIK-UE of the Hang Kee Firm.

TSE YAM-CHI of the Ming San Bank.

LAU CHIN-TING of the Hing Lung Pawn shop.

MUI KING-SHEK of the Kung Fat Wing Californian Firm.

SHE PO-SHAN of the Tung Tak Shing Cotton and Yarn Firm.

CHOI KWAI-NG of the Holland China Trading Co.

LAI WAI-TONG, Merchant.

LO KIT-PING of the Wang Hing Foreign Goods Firm.

IU PING-UE of the Ying Fat Yuen Opium Firm.

TONG TSE-SAU of the Tung On Insurance Co.

CHENG CHEUNG-TSEUNG of the Shing Hop Cheung Firm.

WONG SHAM-KIL of the Wing Cheung Shing Piece Goods Firm.

PAU TAK-HANG of Meyer & Co.

LI KIN-TONG, Merchant.

LI PING-SHEK of the Kwong Yuen Rice Shop.

The accounts will be found in Appendix B.

The funds of the Hospital are in a satisfactory condition, the credit balance at the close of the year being $17,782.38. The expenditure was $72,519.63 as against $67,644 in 1905. A trusted employé of the hospital absconded at the end of the year and defalcations to the extent of $5,927.95 were discovered. This amount was made good by past and present directors of the hospital and others. A small committee was appointed to enquire into the keeping of the accounts and to recommend what safeguards should be adopted, and their report was submitted to His Excellency the Governor.

There are certain disadvantages connected with a complete change every year in the personnel of the Board of Directors and to reduce these and to obtain continuity I have invited sixteen gentlemen to assist me as an Advisory Board. This is an informal body not provided for in the constitution of the hospital but its duties are purely consultative. All members are past directors and eight of them have acted as Chairmen. On more than one occasion I have found their advice of great value.

The hospital has vacated the old dispensary building and leased it to the Po Leung Kuk, and out-patients are now seen in the hall of the new wing.

The Government has sanctioned the establishment of a hospital for Chinese in the Kowloon Peninsula and promised to provide a site. A committee has been formed, and estimates of the cost of erection and maintenance have been drawn up. $37.850 have been subscribed but it was thought unwise to open a public subscription list until after Chinese New Year. A public meeting has been held at Yaumati and the hospital will receive I think, the active support of the inhabitants of Yaumati and Hunghom.

11. Chinese Public Dispensaries.

(Table IX a to LX d.)

The Chinese Public Dispensaries were instituted in March last under the style of Tung Wa Hospital Branch Offices. It has now been thought better to sever a connection- which was almost nominal-and to regard them as distinct institutions. At the close of the year a Committee of nineteen was formed to undertake the charge of the dispensaries and it is hoped ultimately to obtain fuller support in Victoria by the formation of local committees, similar to those which manage the dispensaries in Yaumati, Hunghom and Kowloon City.