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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT

together provide a total of about 1,150 beds are operated by the Tung Wah Hospital Board of Directors, an entirely Chinese charitable organization which, besides hospitals, is also responsible for various other facilities for the poor and needy of the Colony. A large subsidy is now granted by the Government and the Medical Superintendents of the three main hospitals are Government Medical Officers. These hospitals provide a most useful service and are gradually being modernized.

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Run on somewhat similar lines is the Pok Oi Hospital of 60 beds at Yuen Long in the New Territories. Administered by a local group of Directors, this institution also receives a subsidy from Government. (ii) Mission Hospitals, which provide over 1,500 beds, range from the Hay Ling Chau Leprosarium of 580 beds to small institutions with about 60 inmates. They also vary from completely charitable institutions supported by mission funds and local voluntary dona- tions to others which are more or less self-supporting from income received from patients in private wards. Several of the purely charitable institutions receive substantial subsidies from Government. In addition to hospitals, this group is also responsible for the maintenance of a number of 'homes' for the blind, the deaf and the aged, and for a large number of orphanages.

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(iii) Hospitals maintained by the Hongkong Anti- Tuberculosis Association. These comprise the Rut- tonjee Sanatorium, the Freni Memorial Convalescent Home, and the Grantham Hospital, erected in 1957. These hospitals provide a total of approximately 880 beds for the treatment of sufferers from tuberculosis. Treatment in the two first-named is free and a subsidy is provided to the Association, while the