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which the vessel's splendid qualities ultimately triumphed. The damage, however, is not of a serious nature, as it is confined to the turtle back, or whaleback; no material damage to the main construction has accrued, so the vessel can proceed on her voyage to Hongkong, when the Yokohama cargo is discharged, with slight re- pairs. The weather during the voyage is des- oribed as the worst ever experienced on the San Francisco-Yokohama line, and this assurance, corroborated as it is by the dilapidated state of the forecastle head, can be accepted without mental reservation.
The Coptic left San Francisco on the 3rd February, at 1.44 pm., and until the 9th had strong S.W. gales and high seas, which calm- inated on the 11th at 1 a.m. in a terrifio gale from the west. Two tremendous seas struck the steamer's bows, and carried away and demo- lished what is known as the whaleback. For- tunately no lives were lost. and nobody sustained injury. beyond bruises and lacera- tion. The gale lasted two days, and the Coptic subsequently encountered a succession of westerly gales of lesser violence, against which she made splendid weather; of course in tremendously heavy seas her speed was consider ably reduced to prevent confining any body of water on the main deek, which may have injured the steam winch pipe connections. From a dis- tance, the havoc forward is scarcely visible, but once on deck a cursory examination of the dam- aged portion is sufficient to give an idea of the overpowering and destructive force of the waves. As previously stated, the whaleback has been reduced to a disconnected heap of bent and twisted iron beams and shattered timbers. The waves reached as high as the crow's nest on the foremast, the rails of which have also been twisted out of shape by the onslaught to which they were subjected.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
selves able and trustworthy in the discharge of the important duties that devolve проп them.
THE OUT-PATIENT DEPARTMENT. In the Nethersole Hospital, a clinique for women and children only is held twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 10.50 a.m., by the Superintendent.
The number of cases during 1897 has been :
New csses Return visits
Making a Total of
309
420
729
In the Alice Memorial Hospital, out-patients are seen by the various members of the staff as follows:
a.m.
""
17
Medical and surgical cases daily... at 10 Eye diseases on Tuesdays & Frid, at 4.30 p.m. Dental diseases on Thursdays at 4.30 Vaccination on Mondays & Thur. at 2.
The number of cases, including 417 vaccina- tions and 426 dental patients, has been :-
New cases
-11,204 Return visits
Making a total of
8,528
19,732
In the Out-Patient Room, "First come, first served" is the rule, a series of numbered bambco slips handed to the patients as they enter securing that no preference shall be given to either race or religion. Before the consultant for the day arrives, all new cases are registered and provided with prescription papers; and on the arrival of the medical officer on duty he is assisted by three students, who act as in- terpreter, clerk, and dresser respectively.
Having passed under due examination, the large majority of the patients either carry their papers to the dispensary, where three students on duty, and there receive all needed medicines free of charge; or enter a small room for surgical purposes adjoining the consulting On arrival at Yokohama the passengers pre- room, where they are attended to as their cases sented the captain with an address expressing may demand. Sach patients as have need of their unanimous appreciation of the admirable hospital treatment are passed directly to the conduct of Captain Sealby and his officers dur-wards, in the Alice Memorial Hospital or the ing the perilous circumstances of the voyage Nethersole Hospital, as may be desirable. from San Francisco to Yokohama.
ALICE MEMORIAL AND NETHER- SOLE HOSPITALS.
The following is the report of the above institutions for 1897 :-
Experience having shown that the accom- modation the Alice Memorial Hospital is sufficient for the male patients who require to be treated in the wards, and the former accom. modation in the Nethersole Hospital having proved inadequate for the numbers of women and children seeking relief, the Sixtieth Year of the reign of Her Majesty the Queen was marked by the transformation of the latter institution into a Hospital for Women and Children only, the change taking effect on JubileeDay, Tuesday, 22nd June.
A larger number of Out-Patients have been treated during 1897 than in any previous year. 11,513 individual cases have been prescribed for reckoning 8,948 return visits 20,461 con- sultations have been held in the Out-Patient rooms, There is also a larger total of In- Patients, 759, than in. any year since 1892. Since the Alice Memorial Hospital was opened in 1887, 7,322 patients have been treated in the wards, 93,955, equal to nearly half the Chinese community, in the Out-Patient Department.
Mr. W. H. Whiting having resigned the office of Hon. Tresurer on his departure from Hongkong, Mr. Alex. Ross kindly consented to take his place. Surgeon R. T. Gilmour, E.N.. has rendered substantial assistance both in the out-patient room and in the wards since the month of March; Dr. E. Paulun became a member of the Professional Staff in the month
of September; and towards the end of November I took over the duties of Superintendent and Secretary from Dr. J. C. Thomson, to whom I hereby offer thanks in name of the London Missionary Society for his honorary supervision of the Hospitals pending my arrival in the Colony,
In February Dr. U I Kai, Licentiate of the Hongkong College of Medicine for Chinese, became resident House Surgeon of the Alice Memorial Hospital, and in April Dr. Wan Tan Mo, Diplomate of the Viceroy's College, Tientsin, assumed the similar office in the Nethersole Hospital. Both are proving them
are
THE IN-PATIENT DEPARTMENT.
Admission to the wards is usually though the out-patient consulting room, but cases of ac-- cident and acute disease and patients bearing notes of introduction from subscribers to the funds are admitted to either hospital at all hours of the day and night. No charge is made for medicines, clothing during residence, bedding, attendance, &c.. and only a very small proportion of the patients are able to pay for their food.
The arrangement of the wards is shown on the accompanying plans. In the Alice Memorial Hospital men only are received as in-patients, and the three wards, Medical, Surgical, and Ophthalmic, have accommodation for fifty-three beds. In the Nethersole Hospital there are three wards for women and children with an aggregate of thirty-five beds.
A.M.H. N.H.
23 26
468 242 491 268
The work done in the In-patient Department may be thus tabulated :--- In-patients remaining in Hospital on
1st January 1897... In-Patients admitted to Hospital
during the year 1897 ...
Total number treated as In-Patients Of these there were :— Discharged oured Discharged relieved Discharged on other grounds Died in hospital ...
In-Patients remaining in Hospital on
1st January 1898...
OPERATIONS.
57 65 25 13
14
460
[ March 12, 1898.
THE EVANGELISTIC WORK. Daily exposition of Scripture is conducted in the out-patient room in connection with every consultation, and in each of the wards there are morning and evening prayers with Scripture reading and exposition, while conversational work is systematically carried on among both in-patients and out-patients. This department of the work is under the supervision of the Rev. T. W. Pearce.
THE SAMARITAN FUND.
H
Mrs. Stevens desires to acknowledge with thanks donations of money to her "Samaritan fund, as follows: Per Mrs. Martlow
11
Willoughby Smith, Dublin
Johnstone E. C. S.-S., per Miss Jaffrey Per Willie Merry
848.00 25.00
Mrs. Burton
Mrs. Anderson
£2.0.0 19.85 18.30 10.50 £1.0.0- 10.07 £1.0.0——
↓
9.30
Sale of Cloth
6.60
Allen's Fields S.S., Southsea, Per Mrs.
Martlew
.£0.10.0
5.02
5.00
5.00
2.00
Mrs. Bateson Wright Mr. C. W. Cooper Miss Jones...
8164.64
clothing for, and otherwise help, many of the With this money she has been able to provide
very poor of those who have been in the wards, and the children have had their Christmas tree.
A løper girl who came to Nethersole Hospital seeking relief Mrs. Stevens sent to Pak-hoi Leper Home in connection with the C.M.S. Mission, where the child is supported by Miss Jaffrey's Class in Johnstone E.C.S.S.
She also requests me to acknowledge the fol- lowing donations to her "Nurses' Fund": per Mrs. Willoughby, $31.00; Per Mrs. Martlew, $24.00.
she also returns her best thanks, and wishes it To many friends who have sent other gifts
to be mentioned that fruit, flowers, toys, picture books, and old linen are always welcome and useful, and may be addressed to her at either of the hospitals.
ROBERT M. GIBBON, M.B., C.M.
HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND FINANCE CO., LIMITED.
The twelfth ordinary annual general meeting of the shareholders in the Humphreys Estate and Finance Company, Limited, was held on Saturday in the registered offices of Company. Mr. Hart Buck presided and there were also present-Messrs. H. Humphreys, J. A. Jupp, G. C. Cox, A. H. Mancell, C. S. Sharp, W. D. Sutton, Captain Clements, and W. Taylor.
The notice convening the meeting having been read,
The CHAIRMAN said-Gentlemen, I will with your permission adopt the usual custom, · and take the report and statement of accounts as read. Although our dividend for 1897 is 6 per cent. instead of 7 per cent. as in recent years, I think you will agree with me that the accounts show a decided improvement, inas- much as we are enabled to pay a fair dividend to our shareholders from earnings, without 364 155 encroaching on our reserve. The rent roll shows an increase over 1896, of $4,370.69," and over 1895 of $9,624.56, and will of course 17 gradually increase year by year until all our property is developed and built over. I do not 250❘ think I can hold out any prospects of a sub- stantial improvement in the dividend until that has taken place, because we are expending large 18 sums in building operations all the time, and it is hardly necessary for me to tell you while these building operations are going on the Company gets no return for its money and is as a matter of fact out of pocket to the extent of the Crown rents. Our principal work during the year under review has been the development of our Kowloon property. In our last report we informed you that we were building 8 houses at Kowloon and expected they would be readily let. I am pleased to say that these houses, which are known as Cameron Terrace, were completed on the 1st of December last, and were at once all occupied. We have also built 8 similar houses in Granville Avenue. These were completed on the 1st Inst., and passed two days later by the Sanitary
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155 operations under the influence of an an- aesthetic were performed in the two hospitals during 1897, with results as under :-
Cured Improved... Died...
.í.
116
35
4
In these figures no account is taken of the dental operations, nor of a very large number of minor surgical operations, such as opening of abscesses, reduction of simple dislocations and of fractured bones, removal of nasal polypi and other small tumours, &c., performed daily in the Out-Patient Department by the visiting medical officers, the house surgeons, and the senior students.
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