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There were this 809 patients admitted during the year, who underwent treatment in the Hospital (No reference is here made to the notaber [81] remaining in Hospital on the 51st December, 1876.)
418 of these were Policemen, and 418 were seamen, private residents, destitutos, prisoners, members of the Chinese Customs and Revenue Services, and officers and seamen from foreign ships-of-war.
The total number of admissions from the Police Force is in excess of the preceding year. The Europeans number only 84 admissions as compared with 100 in 1876 but this diminution is counterbalanced by an increase of 21 from the Indians and 9 from the Chinese.
A reference to the tables will show the number admittel in each month, from the different stations. Their diseases were principally intestinal and bronchitio affec. tions with febrile attacks and surgical in- juries.
Thred cases of opium poisoning werö brought in, two of which recovered ander. treatment, but the other was seen too late to derive any benefit from medical as-
sistance,
Wounds of all sorts were numerous, and occurred mostly among Chinese. Many of the injuries were emperficial, but some were mortal, though this does not appear in the table, for all the Chinese who had received fatal injury, were carried away by their relatives.
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One exception, the saly case which. reached a fatal termination in Hospital, was that of an old Chinese man, aged 78, who had been attacked on the Shauki Wan road by thieves and hacked about the hands, arms, scalp, nook, and lower ex- tremities. He never recovered from the shook of the injuries, bat died as soon as the reactionary fever eet in.
Six cases of gunshot wonnds were admitted, only one of which, a Entopoon, The increase of sickness among the was allowed to remain in Hospital till the Police is due to the unhealthiness and termination of his caso. Of the other five, overcrowding of some of the Police Stations, Chinese, come had been shot by burglars the unheathiness being due equally to near Tau-me-Ti, the others came from Custom cruisers. All five were taken away situation and to defects of construction.
These defects were in various instances a few days after admission..
Four cases of scalds are recorded; one mede conspicuous by the number of sick coming to Hospital from certain Stations, was a trivial case, and the other three were notably the Police Hulk and Teim-tea-tsui, sufferers from the Tesso explosion: two of and these two with No. 3 Station at Wan them were retained in Hospital and the teni, were made the subject of special roother was sont back to Hospital in an ex- hausted condition after a fortright in Gool. presentitions to the Goverment.
The total number of days spent in Hos. The accident on board the Yesso made the pital in 1877 by members of the Fores was want of space in the Civil Hospital very 8,301, and this may be more than doabled painfally felt. The Hospital bad at the by adding the number of days spent on sick time 14 beds occupied, and as there were leave by Constables after their discharge only 10 left vacant, and these were nearly from Hospital. This is equivalent to nine all in the female and venereal wards, the only coatBO WAS spread mattressen over tom mon off duty for the whole year,
The admissions from foreign ships-of-the floors and passages, and there deposit war were not:so numerons in 1877, as most the wounded as they were brought in. The Gimbe of their sick were taken into the Naval number of the sufferers and the severity Hospital. On several occasions, however, of their injuries taxed the resources of the there were no vacant beds there, so accom- Hospital staff to the very utmost, bat every modation had to be found for them in the one responded, manfully to the call and did Civil Hospital.
Table V. shows the varieties of disease,
On several occasions noisy lunatics were sent to the Hospital, for want of a better with the mortality from each.
place. Lack of accommodation necesitated their being kept in close confinement, which could not be otherwise than detrimental to them, and their insane vociferations day and night were a source of great annoy ance to both patients and attendants. Provision being made elsewhere for them in September, no inpaties have been admitted since that time.
Fevers form a large item in the list, but there was only one fatal case, in a Chinese Constable from the Police Hulk. Some of these febrile attacks were severe, but a large number were comparatively trial Quinine, baths, and careful nursing were relied on for the treatment of these esses, and the results have been satisfactory
One case of typhoid fever (which is said naver to occur in China) was treated in January. The subject was a Chinese Police door to the Hospital, and it is worthy ofnate that in the same month a European Cone- table living in another part of the same house suffered from carbangular abscess of the thigh. All the sinks about these houses were untrapped and there was a very foul letrine immediately adjoining.
The possibilty of these two cases having had a common origin here suggests itself, and secondarily the question of the origin of typhoid fever de novo, which is disputed by some aatkoilties.
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another fair sopy for record in my own treated during a former term of imprison cessive smoking in men who could afford. offos. Barely with only two Surgeons on ment, and, when he returned to Gaol this to spend large sums on the vice. At the the Staff to look after about 600 Police, 500 timo ho was in a deplorable condition, and Tung Wah Hospital, the stranger may at prisoners, the Colonial Staff drawing less there was not the slightest hope of his reco-any time see the most dreadful and ghast than £100 a year, 4 Hospitals, and a very. The last was a partially paralysedly looking objects in the last stages of Lunatic Asylum, and 300 prostitutes, their man who was seized with apoplexy in his serafula and phthisis smoking opium, who time and skill might have been put to better sell and died in a few hours. Many changes had never previously in all their lives nee than clerical office work. The new have been made in the arrangements of the been able to afford the expense of a pipe clark does not find he has too much time on Goal this year; at the beginning of the year a day, yet the European Visitor leaves his hands.
the Royal Commission concluded its labours, the establishment, attributing to the abuse The Tables showing the cases admitted and the new rules and diet soule were put of opium effects which further enquiry into Hospital do not in any way account for in fores. The allowance of rice was dimi- would have satisfied him were due to the extra unhealthiness in the Colony. Thero nished, the chutney taken away, as also the diseases for which the patients were in is a very slight increase in the number of allowance of pork to long term prisoners. Hospital. From what I have seen thero, fever cases, alad in the number of pulmonary To the abolition of the chutney and pork there is no doubt that the advanced con complaints, but there is also a slight de- objected; the first is necessary to help the sumptive patient does experience consider orease in the number of bowel complaints. digestion of the mass of rice, and the second able temporary relief to his difficult breath Venereal, cazes are about the same, though is but a very small allowance of animal food ing by smoking a pipe of opium, though it there are less than half the number of cases indeed and absolutely necessary to sustain is a very poor quality of drug that is given of constitutional syphillis as compared with health. Later in the year, when the chat- to patients at the Tung Wah Hospital. I last year. The terrible accident on board ney and pork were restored, I recommended do not wish to defend the practice of opium the steamer lesso created great confusion that the allowance of rice should be still smoking, but in the face of the rash opinions in the Hospital for a short time. All the further diminished, which was done. and exaggerated statements in respect of I am happy to say flogging with the cat this vice, it is only right to record that no cases but two were within four hours trene- ferred to the large Ward in the Gaol, under on the back or shoulders has been stopped China resident believes in the terrible fre- my superintendence. During the time the pending enquiry. About the beginning of quency of the dull, sodden-witted, debili- poor creatures were in the Hospital great 1875, some of the public journals having tated opium smoker met with in print, amsistance was rendered by the Naval Sur- remarked that the public floggings as con- nor have I found many Europeans who goons who wore in Harbour at the time, and ducted here were a faroe, Chief Justice Sir believe they ever get the bottor of their also the private practitionera. After their John Smale requested to see me, and asked opium smoking compradores in matters of removal to the Gaol Ward, the services of if this were really the case. I explained to business. I have conducted my observa- Surgeon Mowll of H.MS. Vigilant were the Chief-Fustice that these punishments tions with much interist, as the effects of kindly placed at the disposal of the Govern- might naturally be considered not sufficient-opium eating were well known to me by my ment by His Excellency Vice-Admiral Hill-ly severe by the public, as at the time of many years' experience in India, and I have yar, and he took charge of the wounded, their infliction there was little enough to bben surprised to find the opium smoker ixty in number, with such assietano as I see, but that an inspection of the men's differs so much from the opian cater. I am could give him. Nearly all the cases were backs three days after the flagging could inclined to the belief that in the popular fatal: of the 64 brought to the Hospital, not but modify such opinions, and I described mind the two have got confused together. only five are known to have survived. Most the effects as they appeared to me. I have Opium smoking boare no comparison with of them died during the first forty-eight subsequently made more careful observations opium eating. The latter is a terrible vice hours; some were taken away by their as to the results of these floggings, and I most difficult to oure and showing rapidly friends. I tried to persuade the latter to gave evidence in January, 1876, on their very roarked constitutional effects in the leave the patients where they wore but effect before the Royal Commission, and consumer. the question asked was "if we leave have since specially reported on this method them, will they get well?" and as there of punishment. The effect of thirty lashes This institution and the working of the appeared very little chance of such an event, on the back is at the time a large dark Medical Department of the Contagions I had to reply accordingly. Both friends purple bruised and abraded surfaco, from Disease Ordinance No. 10 of 1867, is under and relatives desired however to hear their which a few drops of blood may be drawn.my personal charge. There have been a last words and to give the patients their In twenty-four hours, the man complains of few more admissions to Hospital, and the blessing, and if we could not guarantee to great difficulty of breathing, pain inside the number of examinations have increased by save them, they expressed themselves desir- obest, and both pulse and temperature rise, about 700 this year, but the typo of disease ous to take them home. Surgeon, Mowll about the fourth day the bruised skin begins has not been very severs. Further partien- remained in charge about a fortnight. I am to come away, leaving a large ulcer at the lars under this head are contained in Tables happy to say his valuable services were end of a week, when the difficult breathing E,,E2, and E3 appended hereto, and in my. recognised both by the owners of the vessel, and pain in the chest begin to abate, this private reports to Government on the sub- Messrs. Douglas Capraik & Co., and by the large sore taking from five to six weeks to eut." Chinese Community here; I hope they may heal Bat the man is indelibly marked for
A Commission is at present enquiring into also be acknowledged by the Home Govern- life, and in a country where it is the custom the working of the Ordinance, and will ment, to whom bis services were reported to strip, to the waist when working for the shortly report the results of their investiga- by His Excellency the Governor. It cannot greater part of the year, he who has been tions. bo expected that Hospital accommodation flogged in this way, not but expose these should have sufficed for such, exceptional marks to the ridicule of his fellow workmen, Table XVI. shows the population, morta- events as this hooident to the Fesso. Thave and to his own detriment, as lessening his lity, and percentage of deaths of the Sergeant who lived in an old house next sten a London Hospital se badly crowded chances of obtaining honest work, known ropean Community in Hongkong, by which for a longer time after a railway accident felons not being generally preferred for em- it appears that there were more deaths last with as horrible scenes and formidable opera-ployment. I have therefore recommended year than any of the nine preceding years, tions going on in different wards.
that in future all floggings should be on the though the percentage is not greater than Cases are ontinually being sent down for breech with a rattan, they are quite as pain- that of the years 1870 and 1871, There treatment bere by the Canton Imperial ful and savere, no injury is done to any in-was a considerable amount of malarial fever, Maritime Customs, I do not understand why, ternal organi, the sore produced in similar chiefly among the residents at Kowloon, as they have their own Surgeons; but a few and takes as long, sometimes longer to heal, which may perhaps partly account for the weeks back a case of Small Fox was sent and the man is marked for life, but on a increased sickness among the Garrison,, as down from Canton in a Revenue Cruiser, to part which need not be visible, and he at many of the troops were stationed there. admit which the Small Fox Hospital had to leset has a chance of reforming. I am Table XVIII, gives the annual Atmospheric be specially opened, as we had no cases here satisfied that the seeds of constitutional Report, showing greater heat then has at the time. On this most extraordinary disease have been sown, in many cases, by been experienced in the past eight years, There were a number of cases of theu proceeding I made a special report. these floggings on the back, even the and a very sonsiderable decrease in the rain-matism caused by exposure to wet and We have now, I am glad to say, a tem- Warders in the Gaol have noticed this and fall, which as indicated in my report of 1873 cold. With a large Police Force and sea- porary Lunatio Asylum. I called special painted out men whom they considered is commonly accompanied by a greater mor- faring population this is only to be usual, about one half of them were police attention in my report of 1874 to the way in broken down by repeated flogginge on the tality. The records of the Government Civil expected.
men, and most of the rest were brought in which lunatics were contined in the Bospital back. Though possibly, a matter difficult to Hospital and those of the Tung Wah Hos- Three Europeans were admitted wtih by the police cases of assault, or sick and Gaol, who not only kept the whole Hos- prove to the satisfaction of everybody, for pital do not show any excess of climatic heat apoplexy two made a complete re-destitutes picked up in the street. The pital or Gaol in an uproar, but whose terrible there are many difficulties in the way, disease. *
covery, but the third when discharged from presence of nearly all these 236, therefore, eries became a public nuisance to the resid- have little doubt but that a special enquiry
Hospital, though well in other respects, was in great measure compulsory. he ents in the neighbourhood. This hat, I am into the matter would prove the correctness Table XVII. shows the work done by the suffered from aphasia. Considering the lukongs are sent in because they are in
Corona glad to say, been remediod this year. my views. The question of work and Inspectors of Nuisances during the year. power of the sun in Hongkong and the receipt of pay from the Government, and it orien
Corrientes I have already in previous reports noticed punishment for prisoners is beset with diffi- Though there is a considerable increase in notorious carelessness of sailors in exposis to the interest of the Colony that when
Como.... the unwillingness of Chinese to go into Hoa-oulty; in recommending Blogging in my last the number of persons fined, the amount of ing themselves to its rays, it is a matter of disabled, they shall be restored to health Countess of Errol € pital, and this does not apply only to Euro. report, as it is carried out in India, e, the fixes collected is hardly one third that surprise that more cases of the sort do not and efficienoy as soon as possible, and Creewoll
police casos are brought, in order that they Dartmonth pean Hospitals, they will not go into the from five to thirty strokes on the breech, of last year. This is principally owing to scour. Tang Wak Hospital, till in either the last did so as the best alternative and not as a the new Government Scavenging Contractor Only one case of delirium tremens or may be disposed of before the Magistrates Darius extremity of disease or destitution, bence special advocates. for that mode of punish having performed his duties more satis-curred; though 18 others were on the high without delay, sud that trustworthy ovi. Digo the enormotis mortality of this Hospital, as ment, and because I considered that starva-factorily then his predecessor; last year his road to it when admitted. It is worthy of dence shall be forthcoming as to the nature Empire** explained in the report of 1876.
tion diet, the only other punishment, though fines were very heavy in consequence of the remark that all of these were Europeans. und severity of the injuries sustained. cannot my that I have found the Medi- not so severe at the time, did harm that was inefficient way the contract was carried out. There is ample evidence in the Hospital
medico-logal work performed Empress co-legal and Fost-Mortem work to interiero much more lasting. I have, however, ex- Little more need be said than has been ment-and in the Post-mortem Room, that both by the Superintendent of the Hospital Empreza materially with my other duties, during the plained my views on these subjects at great- tioned in previous reports, which have Indians and Chinese suffer from the effects in 1877, consisted as usual of giving time I took charge of the Government Civil er length in special reporta,
pointed out the state of the drains, the of drink, but they seldom come under evidence before the Magistrates and Florence Hospital, though I had to the full the aver One great improvement introduced into markets, the Chinese dwelling houses, &n. treatment for this alone. age amount of this special work, nor did I the Gail this year, has been the dry earth It is to be hoped something may be done Bronchial catarrh is somewhat prominent receive any complaint that the patients system of conservancy in the cells; before with the markets, especially the Central and in the list, but pulmonary affections are not found themselves noglected in consequence. this important sanitary improvement was Western markets, which are a disgrace to very frequent. There were fourteen cases The working of the Civil Hospital, notwith-introduced, the effluvium in the morning in the Colony. It would also be a great boon of phthisis, which is about the average. standing its many inconveniences and de- the corridors at unlocking hour was very to the poorer classes of the Chinese, if the Bowel complaints were less frequent last fects, which nothing but the advent of the great; now no disagreeable smell is detected. Government could provide small patches of year than in 1876, and in most of the new building on rectify, has been, by the The introduction of the solitary system is, level ground in different parts of the suburbs severer cases were contracted at other
the China seas Superintendent's own bowing, most satis- I understand, under eonsideration. Ide of Victoria, on which they might be allowed ports: factory in its results, as has also the now not think thero is anything that would make to build pig-sties, on condition of their One Chinese was admitted suffering from and improved arrangement of the Hospital the Gaol more drunded by the Chinese than being kept clean and in good order. This round worms, a common complaint among Staff,
knowing every prisoner would be in separate think might be socomplished, and the ad- the natives. confinement for the whole of his term of vantage to the poorer class, who depend This building, which is under my personal imprisonment. Very many of the prisoners entirely on the keeping of pigs for their charge, is situated not far from the Lost who are sent to Gaol for short terms are a living, would be very great. I have the Hospital, and was formerly one of the Chi- source of great trouble, they are often in honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient Servant, nese Schools. It answers the purpose for euch a debilitated state that it becomes a
B. C. ATEES, which it is required very well, being isolated necessity to give them, better food than the
Colonial Surgeon. and having a good open space for the penal diet, simply to avoid Coroner's In- patients to exercise. There have been quests, and then when they do get a good The Honourable J. M. Price,
Asting Colonial Secretary, twenty-five admissions and one death, some meal, they make the discovery that they of the cases were very severe and these were have only to cut a tree in sight of a Lokong chiefly among the Europeans. The one to get back to Geol and to a full belly, and THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE GOVERNMENT colored man, who died, was brought off aaccordingly they are soon again on our CIVIL HOSPITAL: TO THE COLONIAL. vessel that bad just arrived. He was deli- hands. So if ons errs on the side of
SURLION. rious at the time of admission, and died in
GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL, HONGKONG, about twenty-four hours, the pastiles not
10th April, 1978. being fully devoloped.
- St.--I have the honour to forward the report on the Civil Hospital for the year 1877, with the tables of statistics pertaining thereto,
SMALL FOX HOSPITAL,
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TUNG WAH HOSPITAL. I have nothing to add to previous reports in respect of this Institution, it does a son- deal more. The number treated in Hospital siderable amount of good, it might do a good during the year was 1,492, the deaths 623; the number of vaccinations performed 1,874; the number of out-patients treated males 47,187, female 7,807, total 64,074.
humanity the Gaol fills, or, if on the side of striot justice, a coffin is perhaps filled a few day's sooner than it would otherwise be
As regarde oplan smoking, no prisoner who confessed to being an opinn smoker has been allowed a single grain in the Gael stitute, and I do not find there has been Neither has he had any stimulant as a sub-
SANITATION.
In November the Hospital oumpleted its third year of occupation of the three houses y evil consequence in breaking off this in Hollywood Road, Nos, 2, 4, and 6, in habit at once, or that any precaution has which it took refuge after the typhoon of
The Indians and Chinese were almost the only sufferers from colie and constipa tion, which may be attributed to thoir det.
Affections of the liver were not more frequent than usual, and the causes were much the mms, principally excessive drinking, and a few said to be malerius in their origin,
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There were 49 deaths during the twelve months, as compared with 35 in 1876. Of these 20 were moribund on admission, and
Abarney three were attributed to privation.
Alico The receipts from paying patients in
ámboto, 5.8. 1877, amounted to $8,019.56, less by 81,100 America than the receipts for 1876. There were Annie M. Small 1 fewer patients in Hospital in 1877, and Aria some of the accounts due for 1877 have Arte beon collected in 1878. The fees for Board | Astart of Trade patients are not here included, as they are paid directly into the Treasury, Hospital stoppages for the Police are paid in the same way.
A reference to the tables shows that 286 Chinese were treated in the Civil Hospital in 1875,
This is about the usual number, and as
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Fantenoy criminal cases sent to hospital. In ad- Francis B. Fay dition to this, there were 116 dead bodies Fraulein examined and reported on, of which 83 were Freeman Clark adults, viz., & Earopeans, 7 coloured, and 69 Chinese; and 84 were children, all Hail Columbia 1 Chinese.
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Sanford 1 the finding of the bodies, nothing further was done.
In a number of the cases, however, death had resulted from poisoning or from Humboldt criminal violence, and in these a thorough
Lagonia and complete investigation of the body and Imbras, 3.5. the internal organe was made, and in some Invincible cases the contents of the stomach were Irene- examined.
Irigy The examination of the 116 bodles Joki Patta brought to Hospital, showed every variety of teath from homicide, enialde, and
The Coroner's returns record the oaties in all cases coming ander the first two heads, and in the third category the dis- eases were found to be principally those Ha leading to sudden death, vis, heart disease, aneurism, and apoplexy.
The suicides were from oplum poleoning, hanging, and possibly drowning.
One interesting case of abscans of the liver was admitted in October, and bade fair to make a good recovery. feveral abscesses, one of them containing og disease. were tapped with the aspirator, and did well; the first one, after discharging for some weeks, healed up. Complications have now set in, however, which will ex beast the patent, and bring about a fatal termination ig the cone
Enlargement of the spleen, with anemia, was recorded in three cases, one European and two Chinese. This enlargement was observed in a number of the Indian Con stables, admitted from other causes they pecessary further than a closer atten 1874.
The occupation of these buildings con-appeared to offer no inconvenience from tion to the general health. Beveral very good specimens of opium smokers have come tinues to be unsatisfactory, as their more, and it did not seem to interfere with the under observation, ons was the case of complete adaptation to Hospital purposes performance of their duty, This is a small building in the Hallywood man whose daily consumption had been two is said to be inadvisable, because the no- Admissions from facereal diseata re Boad, and, pending the erection of the pro-ounces a day for insteen years, and whe aupation is only temporary, and it is not mained about the same. posed new asylum, has answered. Its purpose was allowed neither opium or gin, nor was worth while to incur further expense for Boils, of which Honglong is said to be very well. It has only been established he given any meruitio or stimulant. For improvements.
pecially productive, only brought 11 foux months and has had two inmates, one the fist few days, be suffered from want of There is but limited room for patients, patients to Hospital, and of these, I were mals and one female; the latter was dis-sleep, but soon was in fair health and ex norsen, steres, kitchens, or for suy of the Chinees. They presental no remarkable charged cured, the former is still under pressed himself much pleased & having got convenienses which we looked upon as features and yielded readily to treatmatit. any correct diagnosis of disease among
rid of the habit. I am no advocate for necessities in a well-ordered Hospital
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LUNATIU ASYLUM,
Of the 8 anildren, some were stil-born, and the rest had died from disease and mai zutrition.
There was little resson to believe that in any of these cases death had resulted from violence. The bodies had been exposed in the streef, and on the bill-side, of thrown into the water to avoid the trouble and expense of burla?.
I There is however, little or no check to homicide in a hundred ways among the Chinese, for as there is not, and cannot be, them, registration of the cause of death must be a mere form, and the Registrar has no guarantee that the cause stated to him is the true ons.-I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient Servant, de
0.5. WEARRY, M.D., Superintendant. Dr. Ph. B. C. Ayres, Colonial Surgaon,
47 cases were sat down to debility POVITORIA GAOL.
opium smoking. My experience of it i On the 1st January, 1877, a light altera. These comprised seamen, destitater, and There has not been so much sickness as that it may become a habit, but that that tion was made in the staff of the Hospital, Police enfiering from suges incident to usual, though plenty of scheming and ma- habit is not necessarily an ingenting one the Senior Wardmaster, Mr J. Edgar, being their several modes of life p lingering Table shows the number of nine out of twelve men smoke a certain relieved from his vrard duties to become clerk,
Privation accounts for 10 admissions, admissions to Hospital. Table Xl shows number of pipes a day, just is a tobacco steward, and storekeeper. He performed the number of trifling cases on the books: smoker would, or as a wine or beer drinker these datis till the end of July when he and 8 deaths being either the predisposing Table All shows the number of admissions, might drink his two or three glasses a day left the service, He was succeeded by Mir use of disease or aggravating that already rate of sickness and mortality: Table XIII. without desiring more. I think the exces J, C. de Senns, who continued all the in existence
51 admissions were in observalan, ----
"Baryster, Sept. 1869.-Gentlemen, I shows the number of deaths and their cause. aire ogiam smoker is in a greater minority duties till the end of the year; the salary
feel it a duty I owe to you to express my There were two suicides, who hang them than the excessive spirit. drinker or tobanos of the Chinese clark then having been seamen, Folke, and prisoners.
Beamen who were maslingering or whose rived by taking. Korian's Camomile Pill.' gratitude for the great benefit 1 have de- selves by their queues, one of them was to smoker. In my experience, the habit doar passed in the estimates, this much-needed have been handed over to the Chinese an- no physical harm in moderation. In the addition to the establishment was obtained, iment was not apparaat were taken into I applied to your agent. Mr Ball, Berkeley, thorities. Of the other five deaths, one was greatest case of exons just mertoned at the and Mr Senna is now able to devote bis Hospital, in order to form an opinion as to for the above-named Pills, for wind In the
their to proseed a paralytis patient, who had been me time Gaol, is better inculated or developed mas whole attention to the stores and prove their Inby on board to be, or to do stomach, from which I suffered excrucia in Gaol, and had never been enbjected to for his sire it would be dients to essions compare the policemen usering from alight india ing pain for a length of time, having tried work. Another was the once of a man who With the morality of the opium smoking With regard to the Hospital work, the died of general debility forty-eight hours question, I have nothing to do; no doubt Register for the year records 250 cases: position, chile, trains, or feverishness nearly every remedy prescribed, bat with
out deriving any benefit at all. After after admission. When he was sunt in, on it is a coatly luxury, and when indulged in 81 of these, however, opmprising superficial from exposure to the suit, were taken in taking two bottles of your ralizable Pills, I retuand, I sent a certificate to the Magistrate even to a small extent by a poor many wounds, dres esset d dogenite, and one of for a day or two, and then rettimed to was quite restored to my usual state of to inform him the prisoner could not posel means increases the comfort of his family opium poloning were treated in the duty plant
health. Please give this publicity for the bly live many days longer. The case of but as far as my experianos goes, and Surgery and then deminred: 10 others disschien was weakly young European have had good opportunities of adging for admitted moriban on lujo de desirous of oldiga aght in the Folce benefit of those who may thus be afflicted. seamana Ona Mok Akwa, on semana Zor there is no great diffenity in breaking of diseases will died mains then sein, complain of linen, Bad, are sent elm, Sir Fours truly! HENRY ALLVASE, To the Fropicions of MORTON'S RANG! mitral Hospital for observation. ful and phillity for which he had hans i the Astit. - have man mány junes of Clin
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