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“Now I should like to have a copy of the Registrar General's Rules on such 'subjects, and if in forty-eight hours, such a place as the Chinese hospital "and in such a condition exists in this town, I shall consider that the
Registrar General does not carry out his duty.
He had better take this paper and wait on the Attorney General to consult "him as to the best means of promptly terminating the evils reported, and punishing such parties as can be legally punished for the heartless and "inhuman conduct detailed in Mr. LISTER's report."
* If further legislation be required—which does not seem to be the case—
"prepared to undertake it."
4. Minute dated 26th April, 1869, reads :---
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Let me have the Regulations under which the Emigration Depôts **have been placed-for the whole subject must be reported to the Secretary "of State--as I am quite resolved not to allow the Executive, so far as I "can help it, to be compromised by any irregularities in connection with
emigration from this Colony.”
"I do not believe that anything worse than the scenes, reported as having occurred in the so-called Chinese Hospital in the midst of this town, ever happened at Macao. It is here that there may be a distinction so far that "with this Government to know the existence of such horrors is to ensure "their immediate abolition.”
5. Minute dated 28th April, 1869, reads:-
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...........Is it certain that similar undiscovered dens are not at this “moment a disgrace to the Colony? Having found the Registrar General and the Harbour Master professing ignorance of their responsibility, 1 now request explanation of the Colonial Surgeon, who, no doubt, will "claim similar immunity; whereas I incline to think that the Secretary of State will consider that all three are responsible for the existence of "such a place, and that each of the three had a perfect right to interfere."
6. And Sir RICHARD MACDONNELL'S Memorandum, No. 470, dated 5th May, 1869, reads, paragraph 1:—
............ Referring to the various documents and memoranda in this office "relative to the gross abuses and disgusting scenes in the I-Ts'z,' or Chinese Hospital, I think the opportunity favourable for establishing a really good hospital for sick and moribund Chinese, conditionally that "its regulations and general superintendence be subject to Government "control;"
and paragraph 3 concludes:-
"It ought also to comprise a residence for a native doctor and a dispensary for native and European medicines, and should be visited by a European "medical man almost daily." -
7. The Petition of certain Chinese dated the 23rd May, 1866. refers to "the erection of a home and hospital for the destitute poor and sick Chinese in the Colony. Their intention is to provide quarters and medical attendance for the sick, &c.," and Sir RICHARD MACDONNELL'S minute of 29th June, 1866, in connection therewith reads:-
8. "On the understanding that the intended hospital will be used for relief and cure "of sick and destitute Chinese I am unwilling to withhold my sanction from
a project which is creditable in its object."