 It was provided by the Chinese Six Companies, and it was built in 1900 on 828 Sacramento Street.The dispensary was named after the Tung Wah Hospital in Hong Kong, and it housed 25 beds, provided both western and Chinese medicine, free or to low cost care to patients, and its staff was volunteers from the community and physicians from outside of the community.Of those physicians three were American physicians and the rest were Chinese American physicians who helped with the Chinese medicine and translating from Chinese to English for the American physicians.