Identifier: handbookoffedera01belf (find matches)
Title: Handbook of the federated Malay states
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Belfield, H(enry) Conway. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: London
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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is supported by an annual Grovernment Grant and acontribution from the rates. There are two English girls schools in Kuala Lumpurfounded by the enterprise of the Roman Catholic andMethodist Missions. No charge is made at the VernacularSchools, but attendance is compulsory for any boy livingwithin two miles. At the English Schools a small monthlyfee is charged. A Settlement exclusively for Malays has been started inKuala Lumpur, with the object of collecting in one place anexclusively Malay population and to provide technical educa-tion in wood-carving, silver work, weaving, tailoring andagriculture. There are now about 50 families, to each of which a freegrant of half an acre has been given, but no other assistance. The Settlement has a large recreation ground, a mosque,houses for the technical education classes and a boardinghouse for Malay boys attending the Victoria Institution. Vernacular Schools for boys and girls are in course ofconstruction within the grounds of the Settlement.
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Federated Malay States. 81 There are five surgeons with British qualifications, assisted Hospitals.by 53 apothecaries and dressers, in charge of the 17 hospitals,providing accommodation for 1,800 patients. All coolies ofevery nationahty are treated free of charge, nearly two-thirdsof the patients being Chinese mining coolies. 17,963 patientswere treated during 1900, the death rate being 13*46 percent., or approximately 46 per thousand of the totalpopulation. There is a European ward in Kuala Lumpur, containingsix beds in charge of two certificated nurses; a charge of$3 per diem is made. A Bungalow has been erected at Bukit Kutu, nine miles Sanitaria.from Kuala Kubu at an elevation of 3,200 feet. It is fully furnished and can be hired for specified periods,at a moderate charge. There is also a Eest House at the highest point of thepass on the road to Pahang (2,700 feet) and two furnishedBungalows at the hot springs at Dusun Tua, at all of whicha beneficial change may be enjoyed at mode

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