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p. 20-24.
9. Sir RICHARD MACDONNELL'S despatch to Lord GRANVILLE, No. 726, dated 21st Appendix June, 1869, alludes to the humanity and expediency of assisting to establish a well conducted Hospital for Chinese; paragraph 18 reads :---
............On the other hand, whilst allowing a Chinese Committee to "exercise a general control over the management of the proposed hospital, "it is agreed that the Governor shall have power to close it, and that all "the lands and buildings shall be forfeited to the Crown in the event "of the Colonial Surgeon, Registrar General, and one other officer deputed "by the Governor, reporting the place to be ill conducted, and that it would "be expedient to resume the land. These arrangements are to be made "by Ordinance."
Paragraph 19 concludes:---
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"I have only sought to convey to your Lordship a clear understanding of the policy and necessity which call for the construction of some such build- "ing to meet certain Chinese special wants and prejudices, which are not "provided for by the existing Civil Hospital.'
And paragraph 20 also concludes:-
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"I believe there is no effective remedy for such an evil except inducing the Chinese, as I am doing, to build a suitable hospital and refuge, open to European surveillance but under Chinese management and direction, so "that there may be no such reluctance to go there in the minds of the "natives as that which generally prevents their voluntarily going to the "Civil Hospital.”
II.-The objects for which the Tung Wa Hospital was founded.
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10. The Secretary of State's Despatch, 158, of 7th October, 1869, sanctions the estab- Appendix lishment of "a new hospital for sick and moribund Chinese conditionally that its regula- tions and general superintendence be subject to the Government control, &c."
P. 41-42.
11. Sir RICHARD MACDONNELL'S Despatch 947, of 19th February, 1872, to the Earl Appendix of KIMBERLEY, reports the opening of the Chinese Hospital; paragraph 2 concludes :-- "I availed myself of the opportunity to place before the Chinese the obliga- "tions, which they might be regarded as having undertaken, and reminded "them of the position, which they would occupy in future, enjoying great "freedom in all matters of local details and management, but subject to the
general superintendence and visits of certain Government Officers."
Paragraph 8 reads:-
"I need only add that a vigilant supervision is intended to be maintained over "the accounts and expenditure by Auditors appointed by Government, and "who at present are the Registrar General for the time being and the
Superintendent of the Central School."
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Paragraph 9 reads :---
"The Ordinance under which the Committee is incorporated seems to me "to contain every useful and requisite power for facilitating the action of "the Committee of Management, whilst equally useful powers for con-
trolling and preventing abuses are reserved to the Executive."
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And paragraph 11 reads:-
"On the whole I can conscientiously say that I look forward with cheerfulness "and hope to the future of the Hospital, and feel thankful that I have been
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permitted to take so leading a part in extracting finally so much good from "the original abuses, which disgraced the 'I-Ts'z' Hospital and led to the present important undertaking which your Lordship and Her Majesty's "Government have done so much to countenance and promote."