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Appendix 10.
SANITARY BOARD ROOM,
HONGKONG 14th June, 1892.
SIR,
In furtherance of your request, made a few days ago, that I should inspect the two rooms in the Tung Wa Hospital Building, which are said to be mainly occupied by young girls under the protection of the Pó Léung Kuk Society, and give you my opinion as to the suitability of these rooms, from a sanitary point of view, for the purpose for which they are being used, I have to inform you that I was able to inspect the rooms in question this morning.
I am clearly of opinion that the rooms are unsuitable for the housing of healthy young girls, inasmuch as they are in direct communication with the two wards below, where men are lying ill from various diseases some of which are, or at any time may be, of a communicable character. Therefore, apart altogether from the maxim that it is unwise to house healthy persons, more especially the young, with sick persons, there is here a very considerable risk that the girls placed in these rooms for their good may at any time be infected with disease from the wards below and have their lives thereby endangered.
Honourable J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
No. 1187
SIR,
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Registrar General.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
HUGH MCCALLUM,
Sanitary Superintendent.
Appendix 11.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE,
HONGKONG, 27th June, 1892.
I am directed to transmit to you, for the information of the Committee of enquiry into the affairs of the Pó Léung Kuk, a short précis of the history of the Home for Girls.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
The Honourable,
THE REGISTRAR GENERAL,
&c.,
&c.,
fc.
G. T. M. O'BRIEN,
Colonial Secretary.
Précis of correspondence re Home for Girls.
The Pó Léung Kuk, which came into existence in 1880, had no Home of its own. A portion of the Chinese Recreation Ground was granted to the society early in its career, but this grant was subsequently cancelled by order of the Secretary of State. By permission of the Tung Wa Hospital management, the Pó Léung Kuk was allowed to