(f) Mr. Lo Min-nung-Representative of the Directors of the Tung Wah Hospital who are residents of Kowloon or New Kowloon.
(9) Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Chairman).
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46. The Committee met once at the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.
47. The following contributions were made from the Temples Fund during the year 1939:
$15,000.00 to the Chinese Public Dispensaries Fund.
$27,240.65 to the Tung Wah Hospital.
$
$
$
60 60
800.00 to the Home for the Aged.
500.00 to St. John Ambulance Brigade for the expenses of New Ter-
ritories medical work and Haw Par Hospital.
500.00 to the Society for the Protection of Children.
$ 200.00 to the Children's Playground Association.
ABERDEEN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.
(Table XXVII.)
48. The history of the foundation of the Aberdeen Industrial School and the conditions under which it is carried on have been described in previous reports.
year:
49. The following gentlemen served on the Executive Committee during the
(a) Secretary for Chinese Affairs (Chairman).
(b) Hon. Sir Robert H. Kotewall, Kt., C.M.G., LL.D. Representative of the
Chinese Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils.
(c) Mr. Li Yau-tsun, C.B.E.-Representative of the District Watch Com-
mitee.
(d) Mr. Chau Shiu-ng--Chairman of the Tung Wah Hospital Committee. (e) Mr. Ngan Shing-kwan-Chairman of the Po Leung Kuk Committee. (f) Mr. P. Gockchin-Chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Com-
merce.
(g) Mr. B. Wong-Tape-Chinese Representative on the Urban Council
appointed by the Governor.
(h) Sir Robert Ho Tung, Mr. Fung Ping-wa, Mr. Tse Ka-po and Mr. Ng
Wa-Appointed by the Governor.
(i) Reverend Father Guarona and Reverend Father Bernardini-Members
of the Salesian Society.
STAFF.
SECRETARY FOR CHINESE AFFAIRS.
50.
Mr. R. A. C. North returned from leave on 4th August and acted as Colonial Secretary to 27th September. During his absence Messrs. W. J. Carrie and H. R. Butters acted as Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
6th June, 1940.
W. J. CARRIE,
Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
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Annexe A.
REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE PO LEUNG KUK
FOR THE YEAR 1939.
(Tables A, B and C.)
The Po Leung Kuk Society was founded in 1878 to aid in the detection and suppression of kidnapping especially of girls and women, and to shelter such girls or women as had been kidnapped in the interior and brought to Hong Kong for sale or emigration. Its name means "institution for the preservation of virtue.' The initiative in its formation came from the Chinese themselves, and ever since by subscription and personal service they have continued to support it.
2. The following were elected in April to serve as the Managing Committee for the year:-
Mr. Ngan Shing-kwan.
Mrs. Ho Leung.
Dr. Li Tsoo-yiu,
Miss Irene Ho Tung.
Mrs. Kwok Lam-pat.
Mr. Wan Wan-tsing.
Mr. Tong Yick-tong.
Dr. Liu Yan-tak.
Mr. Chau Sing-chi.
Mr. Kwok Pui-cheung.
Mr. Leung Sik-mau.
Mr. Kan Man.
3. The number of inmates of the Po Leung Kuk on 1st January. 1939, was 196 and during the year 787 persons were admitted as against 650 in 1938. The circumstances of admission and the action taken in regard to them are set out in Table A.
4. 787 women, girls and children were admitted without warrant. Thirty-four were lost children. Seventeen were accompanied by parents or guardians and twenty-nine were muitsai who had left their employers and thirty-seven wards who had left their custodians.
5. On leaving the Kuk 167 persons were restored to husbands or other relatives, 126 were sent to charitable institutions in China or employed as domestic servants, thirty-one were given in adoption, one was married, 205 were released after inquiries, twenty-two were released under band, and 182 were sent to a School, Convent, Refuge or Refugee Camp in the Colony. The number of inmates remain- ing in the Kuk on 31st December was 223 which is more than that of previous years.
G. 285 cases of sickness were sent to the Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, one to the Mental Hospital, and three to the Lai Chi Kok Hospital for treatment, and of these twenty-five died.
7. Dr. S. W. Tso, C.B.E., and Lieutenant-Colonel H. B. L. Dowbiggin, 0.B.E., continued to serve as Visiting Justices throughout the year.
8. Mrs. M. K. Lo and Mrs. S. W. Tso paid regular visits of inspection during the year.
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Annexe B.
THE CHINESE HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES.
The Chinese Hospitals and Dispensaries are institutions established by the Chinese, in some instance over seventy years ago, for the benefit of the sick poor of Chinese nationality.
2. There are three general hospitals, each with a maternity department, one maternity hospital, and nine public dispensaries.
3. They are maintained by subscriptions from the public, by donations from the Chinese General Charities Fund, and by direct grants from Government. The Government grants have been substantially increased in recent years. The history of their foundation has appeared in earlier reports.
4. In control of the Tung Wah Hospital Corporation is the Board of Directors, a body of Chinese gentlemen elected each year by the subscribers. A medical Com- mittee has been appointed consisting of the three Principal Directors, two members of the Advisory Board, the Visiting Medical Officer and the three Superintendents of the Hospitals, under the Chairmanship of the Director of Medical Services, to act as the executive authority in all matters relating to the Medical administration of the Hospitals.
5. The Tung Wah Hospital corporation serves many purposes, and has wide ramifications extending into many departments of charitable work. Its activities include:
(1) Accommodation and treatment by Western or herbal medicine of the
sick poor.
(2) The care and provision for the senile and indigent.
(3) Maternity and child welfare service for the poor.
(4) Free vaccination against smallpox and inoculation against cholera.
(5) Provision of coffins and burial of the dead.
(6) Training schools for nurses and midwives.
THE WANCHAI OR EASTERN MATERNITY HOSPITAL.
This hospital is run in conjunction with the Eastern Dispensary. It is in charge of a Western-trained Chinese doctor and continues to provide most satisfactory and efficient service for this densely populated district.
The total number of beds is 31. and the number of admissions 1,244. There were three maternal deaths during the year.
THE CHINESE PUBLIC DISPENSARIES.
The Chinese Public Dispensaries commenced their work in 1904 and full des- cription of their activities appears in the Report for 1938.
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IN-PATIENTS.
Admitted in 1939.
Tung Wah
Tung Wah (Eastern)
Kwong Wah
Total
Chinese treatment
5,074
2,271
4,144
11,489
Western treatment
13,737
6,911
20,657
41,305
Maternity cases
2,220
1,074
4,714
8,207
Combine
21,031
10,256
29,714
61,001
Remaining from 1938 ..
693
252
602
1,547
TOTAL IN-PATIENTS
21,724
10,508
30,316
62,548
OPERATIONS.
572
527
829
1,928
Deaths in hospital
5,773
3,306
9,492
18,571
Brought in dead
1,607
1,016
2,577
5,200
DEATH-RATE PER 1,000
265
314
313
296
OUT-PATIENTS.
Chinese treatment
223,056
95,094
514,554
832,704
Western treatment
24,217
27,777
24,677
76,671
Combine
247,273
122,871
539,231
909,375
Eve clinic
14,648
1,251
3,838
19,737
Baby clinic
1,443
646
1,907
Ante-natal clinic
486
486
Anti-smallpox vaccinations
16,607
3,646
10,647
30,900
Anti-cholera inoculations
7,080
5,066
2,919
15,065
Gynaecology
1,748
1,748
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INDEX.
Po Leung Kuk.
Number of Women, Girls and Children admitted Statement of Receipts & Expenditure (Jan.-May) Statement of Receipts & Expenditure (May-Dec.)
Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.
Comparative Statement of Expenditure
Table.
A.
B.
C.
I
Comparative Statement of Revenue, 1938 and 1939
II
Comparative Statement of Expenditure and Revenue for last
ten years
III
Emigration.
Number of female passengers and boys examined and passed Number of Assisted Emigrants
IV
V
VI
Chinese Boarding House Licence Returns
District Watch Force.
Statement of Receipts and Expenditure Comparative statement of cases obtained
VII
VIII
Tung Wah Hospital and Man Mo Temple.
Income and Expenditure Account of the three Chinese Hospitals
IX
Balance Sheet of the three Chinese Hospitals
X
Income and Expenditure Account of the Man Mo Temple Balance Sheet of the Man Mo Temple
ΧΙ
XII
Comparative Expenditure under certain headings at the three Chinese
Hospitals
XIII
Comparative number of cases treated at the three Chinese Hospitals...
XIV
Brewin Fund.
Income and Expenditure Account
Balance Sheet
XV
XVI
Chinese Public Dispensaries.
Summary of work done during the year
XVII
Summary of work done in Gynaecological Clinics
XVIII
Income and Expenditure Account
XIX
Balance Sheet
XX
Chinese Permanent Cemetery Statement of Account
XXI
Chinese Recreation Ground: Statement of Account
XXII
Yaumati Public Square: Statement of Account
XXIII
Passage Money Fund
XXIV
General Chinese Charities Fund
XXV
Chinese Temple Fund
XXVI
Aberdeen Industrial School: Statement of Account
XXVII
Committed under Warrant from the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.
Committed under Warrant from the Emigration Office.
Sent with their own consent by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
In the Po Leung Kuk onli
143
2
1st January, 1939 ....
Total
Remaining in the
Ро
Leung Kuk on the
31st December, 1939
consent from Singapore
and Sandakan.
Table A.
1 -
NUMBER OF WOMEN, GIRLS AND CHILDREN, ADMITTED TO
THE PO LEUNG KUK DURING THE YEAR 1939 AND THE
ARRANGEMENTS MADE REGARDING THEM.
ONY
Sent with their own consent by the Police.
Sent with their own
Admitted during the year........
558
20
149
34
17
86681
701
22
177
17
46
28
12
3
36
19
3
223
ΟΙ
6
1
Lost Children.
Accompanying parents or guardians.
787
17
196
126
27
10
983
209
18
T
Runaway girls.
Total.
Released after inquiries.
Released under bond.
Placed in charge of husbands.
Placed in charge of parents and relatives.
Sent
to
in
China
or
employed as domestic servant.
Charitable Institution
Sent to School, Convent, or Refuge.
Adopted.
Married.
5
3
7
53
56
30
10
32
196
204
15
1
160
73
126
1
1
15
191
787
167
126
182
31
T
25
223
983
Died.
Case under consideration,
Total
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Table B.
PO LEUNG KUK.
STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND ExpenditurE FROM 1ST JANUARY TO 4TH MAY, 1939.
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Receipts.
$
C.
Expenditure.
CA
C.
Balance from Previous year
$10,393.70
Wages
Food
$2,242.30
2,965.55
Subscriptions:-
Clothes for inmates
246.46
Traffic expenses
258.55
Rent from House Property
$1,490.00
Repairs
344.90
Passage Money
85.00
Subscriptions from Guilds
3,301.50
Fuel
596.99
Light and Power
396.40
Sale of Hand Work
226.09
Drugs
162.44
Water
292.75
Deposit with Po Fung Bank
279.50
Telephone
64.50
Crown Rent and Rates
242.28
Interest
9.78
Advertisement and Printing
33.12
Stationery
64.52
Contributions to Festivals
220.00
Material for Hand Work
409.79
Miscellaneous
545.01
Miscellaneous
71.85
Insurance
49.25
5,598.72
8,999.81
Interest on Current Account
19.25
Balance
7,011.86
Total.
$16,011.67
Total..
$16,011.67
Certified by the Statutory Declaration of Chan Lan Fong and Mrs. Ho Leung, Members of the Board of Directors,
Table C.
PO LEUNG KUK,
STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE FROM 5TH MAY TO 31ST DECEMBER, 1939.
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Receipts.
Expenditure.
$
C.
Handed over by previous Committee
*$7,011.86
Wages
Food
$4,551.14
7,823.30
Subscriptions:
Fuel
1,380.20
Repairs
809.69
Grant by Hong Kong Government
.$10,000.00
Traffic Expenses
465.30
Water Account
165.75
Rent from house property
2,983.00
Crown Rent and Rates
317.50
Clothes for Inmates
1,332.11
A. Fong Photographers
250.00
Light and Power
615.45
Telephone
64.50
Subscriptions from Guilds
15,111.83
Petty Expenditure
Printing and Stationery
493.43
440.82
Yue Lan and other celebrations
735.00
Passage Money
Sale of hand work
207.38
Medical Apparatus and Drugs Material for Hand Work Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
72.26
29,359.47
Interest on current account
43.82
Balance
Total.
$36,415.15
4.50
447.63
D
346.53
1,997.35
21,255.20
15,159.95
Total.
$36,415.15
Certified by the Statutory Declaration of Chan Lan Fong and Mrs. Ho Leung, Members of the Board of Directors. * Of which $6,133.97 represents the surplus of the Building Fund.
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Table I.
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE 1938 AND 1939.
Personal Emoluments
Other Charges.
1938.
1939.
$138,410.09 $152,594.04
Conveyance Allowances
637.05
973.68
Electric Fans and Light
994.79
952.63
Incidental Expenses
1,024.35
958.47
Library
148.31
512.66
Rent of Public Telephone
35.10
117.00
Transport
235.25
735.76
Special Expenditure.
Typewriter
313.00
Total Personal Emoluments and Other Charges
$141,520.94 $157,157.24
Table II.
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF REVENUE 1938 AND 1939.
1938.
1939.
Licences and Internal Revenue not otherwise specified.
Chinese Boarding House Licences
$14,731.00
$13,607.00
Emigration Passage Broker Licences
1,400.00
1,310.00
Fees of Court or Office.
Certificates to Chinese Proceeding to Foreign Countries ...
Miscellaneous
750.00
23.00
3,400.00
Official Signatures
110.00
25.00
175.00
Miscellaneous Receipts.
Condemned Stores
29.10
22.90
Total
$17,043.10
$18,539.90
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Table III.
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE AND REVENUE FOR LAST TEN YEARS.
Year.
*Personal Emoluments and
Other Charges.
Special Expenditure.
Total
Expenditure.
Total Revenue.
1930....
130,279.41
130,279.41
20,176.06
1931.
135,424.29
135,424.29
18,771.59
1932......
130,880.54
130,880.54
17,344.03
1933.....
175,321.51
175,321.51
16,347.60
1934.....
141,831.49
141,831.49
17.618.75
>
1935....
127,624.04
127,624.04
13,329.67
1936.
139,948.00
139,948.00
26,865.75
1937.
129,449.37
1,308.00
130,757.37
19,530.00
1938.
141,520.94
141,520.94
17,043.10
1939.
156,844.24
313.00
157,157.24
18,539.90
* Includes officers of Cadet, S.C. & A., & J.C. Services attached to department.
Table IV.
Number of Female Passengers and Boys examined and passed before the Secretary for Chinese Affairs under "The Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915,"
during the year 1939.
Women and Children 1939.
Total
Women
and
Women
Girls Boys
Total
Children
1938.
Macassar
567
194
428
1,189
627
Straits Settlements & F.M.S.
6,021
2,088
4,535 12,544
30,773
Dutch Indies
279
81
519
878
667
Delawan Deli
612
181
403
1,196
903
British North Borneo
826
247
437
1,510
1,459
Honolulu
56
33
37
126
129
United States of Ameria
392
148
514
1,054
977
South America
1
1
4
Mauritius and Reunion
193
79
199
471
411
Australia
32
14
43
89
213
India
154
42
113
309
265
South Africa
129
35
109
273
269
Vancouver
248
48
335
631
579
Batavia
Sourabaya
1,209
239
561
2,009
3,302
534
120
287
941
1,285
Rangoon
582
269
343
1,194
861
Seattle
21
7
28
29
Saigon
2,323
621
918
Bangkok
46
19
103
3,862 168
14.225
4,458
9,891
28,574
42,753
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Table V.
NUMBER OF ASSISTED EMIGRANTS.
Rejected.
Year. Examined. Passed.
Un- willing.
¡Rejected
at
S. C. A.
Rejected by Doctor.
1938..... 1,474 1,466
1939......
733
728
1
∞
*Total
Rejected.
Percentage
of
Rejection.
.54
LO
5
.68
* This number includes those who failed to appear for the final examination.
NATIVE DISTRICTS OF ASSISTED EMIGRANTS PASSED.
Whither Bound.
Dutch Indies
Ocean Island
Nauru
Mombasa
Melbourne
Rabaul
Sandakan
Singapore
West River
East River
North River
Canton
Delta
Kwong Sai
Southern Districts
277
43
54
230
19
76
29
728
DESTINATION OF ASSISTED EMIGRANTS.
Total......
Male Assisted Emigrants.
1938.
1939.
826
438
95
127
463
132
1
2
37.
23
2
1
2
4
2
1,466
728
Classification of the assisted emigrants examined, according to the language spoken gives the following figures :-
Cantonese Hakka
685 43
Total...
728
Table VI.
Chinese boarding house licence returns under the Boarding House Ordinance No. 23 of 1917.
Class
II
IV
VII
Total
No. in existence at beginning of 1939 I No. in existence at end of 1939
63
1
58
22
75
141
65
126
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Table VII.
STATEMENT OF THE RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURE RELATIVE ΤΟ
DISTRICT WATCHMAN FUND FOR THE YEAR 1939.
Receipts.
C.
Expenditure.
THE HONG KONG
G.
રા
C.
To Balance
Contributions (Victoria:—
11
116,112.57 Wages and Salaries:-
Chief District Watchmen Assistant Chief District
2,860.00
$48,443.36 + Kowloon:-818,207.45)....
66,650.81
Watchmen
3,539.00
Detectives
10,720.20
11
Grant by Hong Kong Government
1st Class District Watchmen... 17,001,10
100.00
2nd 3rd
12,530.70
1.
..
T
942.66
1
1
Payment to District Watchmen for special
services
47,593.66
2,439,00
Miscellaneous:-
Fines
91.75
Cooks
+
Coolies
House rents
756.00
Messenger
"?
1,104.00 840.00 96.00
2,040.00
+1
Rent for permission to erect an iron gate on s.s. 2 of Section A on 1.L. 680, for 1939 (West Point D.W. Quarters)
Office Staff:-
1.00
Manager Collectors
1,176.00
1,176.00
Sales of unserviceable stores
37.00
Total......
50,809.66
Interest on Hong Kong Government 4%
Conversion Loan
1,520.00
Other Charges:-
Rent allowance
3,321,64
Allowance to Detectives
2,269.00
Interest on Fixed Deposits
1,240.55
Medal allowance
1,332.00
Conservancy allowance
42.00
Interest on Current Account
520.42
Conveyance allowance &c.
786.84
Electric charges
915.69
Telephone rentals
585.00
Stationery, printing and stamps
463.75
Uniforms and equipments
2,795.76
Crown Rents
15.74
Repairs and fittings
72.73
Premium on Fire Policy.
426.84
Gratuities and rewards
7,373.92
Sundrics
826.77
21,227.68
Total.
189,469.10
Pensions:-
Ex. C. D. W. Chan Sham and others
Total Expenditure
Balance:
Hong Kong Government 4% Conversion Loan Cash
Fixed Deposits (H.K. & Sh. Bk.)
Fixed Deposits (Treasury)
Advance to C. D. Ws.
Examined & Found correct.
S. W. T'SO,
泉右李
Members of D. W. Cee.
Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.
Balance
$38,000.00
36,851.31
10,000.00
30,000.00
160.00
Total......... $115,011.31
2,420.45
74,457.79
115,011.31
Total...
189,469.10
R. A. C. NORTH,
S. O. A.
A. G. CLARKE,
A. S. C. A.
Hong Kong, 31st December, 1939.
TANG MAN TUEN,
Manager, D.W.F.
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