It was these Chinese business people, with their beginnings of a modern worldview, who began to do medical charity work in 1869. In 1872, they established the famed Tung Wah Hospital which provided medical care and education to Chinese.
正是這些粗備現代視界的華人紳商，早在一八六九年開始慈善醫療工作，至一八七二年，建立了著名的東華醫院，從事醫療、救濟、教育的工作。