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Witness in answer to the Coroner said the reason why the place was cleaned the other day was because the Registrar-General "came there and held his nose." (Much laughter.)
The Coroner remarked-" that then was the test of the cleanliness of the Hospital: when the Registrar General came there and held his nose, the "I-Ts'z" was cleaned out. (Laughter.)
Witness then added- no persons are sent to the Hospital, but those of whose recovery there is no hope."
The Coroner said that was what he expected, exactly.
The witness said it was the friends' duty to attend their sick relations, and if they did not come he sent for them. He did not supply the coffins; a man named Su-a- SING supplied them, but that was only an act of charity and exercised when the many coffins given by kind people are exhausted. He could not say how many persons were buried from the "I-Ts'z" during last month, on account of the friends coming and taking the bodies away, which they can do without telling him anything about it. He did not know how many admissions there were last month.
By the Coroner" Taking one year with another, have there been more or less patients this last twelve months than the preceding ?"
Witness replied "how could he recollect what took place in a year if he could not recollect what took place in a month." (Laughter.) However, after some time, he said that there were (C
more lately."
In answer to Mr. LISTER, he said that he had before had as many as nine men in hospital, but sometimes there were none for twenty days in the place. He had seen the Inspector of Nuisances come and look about; sometimes he came once a month and sometimes twice in a month, but he had never seen the Inspector go into the rooms.
Dr. COCHRANE was re-called and said he had in the interim made a post mortem examination and found in the stomach a little fluid and a few grains of rice. From what he saw it was evident, as he surmised, that deceased died of jaundice. It was also apparent that deceased ate nothing for some time before his death and he might have been unable to eat. The deceased must have died slowly, that is, been moribund some hours before his death.
The inquest was then adjourned at twenty minutes past seven, until Tuesday at three in the afternoon.
ADJOURNED INQUEST.
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The adjourned inquest on the body of a coolie, taken out of the "I-Ts'z Hospital by Mr. LISTER, was resumed before the Coroner yesterday (27th April, 1869,) at the Magistracy.
The same Jury were in attendance.
The Master of the Hospital was called to have his evidence, previously given, read over to him. He corrected part of this evidence. At the former sitting, he said Mr. D. R. CALDWELL paid for the expenses of "burial and attendance in the Hospital," he corrected this saying, that Mr. CALDWELL only paid for burial, any attendance was gratuitous on his part. He also made alterations respecting the people, who came to see deceased. On the present occasion, he said that the person whom he before stated came to see the deceased was a doctor who came to see the
Kwong Kee" emigrants, but was not aware that the deceased was visited.
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The Coroner then further examined the witness, who stated-There was no regular Chinese doctor in attendance at the Hospital. In fact, the heads of the Chinese community do not at the present time cake much interest in the Hospital. None of