Boa
of
Tra
red their wretched vocation
who pursued
in that locality, and who formed
the principal part of its inhabitants,
or to devise some means for the
Amelioration of their condition. They first resorted to boats; but it was there
found that murders were
and detection more
than
frequent,
ever
difficult. A design was formed of establishing a Lock Hospital
which
where the Colonial Surgeon volunteered to attend. The prostitutes raised
by monthly subscriptions (the
amount of which was fixed by themselves) the requisite funds for Medicines, Chinese & Doctors, Watchmen, Nurses &c., and hired buildings for a
Hospital. The subscription
$300
was collected and managed by themselves,
under the Superintendence of the Colonial Surgeon. Of still: the Government had
further
concern with it; of these facts Mr Matheson must have been cognizant;
as
they
were all known to numbers of
persons, and were adverted to in the China Mail of May 22 1845. Not
and
he was also aware that the probity
of Dr. Dill was too well known to admit of the supposition that he would have lent himself to any scheme of the kind, had he not been persuaded of its utility. I know that
Dr Dill's motive was most benevolent.
He is dead. He would have been able to furnish full details on this subject.
After this measure had continued