5
both months inclusive, there
sickness
were 222 cases of treated in the Civil Hospital. within the aggregate of 2,288 days and 172 cases of sickness in the Gaol for which I have allowed 286 days sustenance from the Civil Hospital. The expense of provisions, medical comforts, to, was
during the ₤105-7-3/2 which
last
Year
gives a rate of about of per
head per day for provisions,
wine and all other
including uidulgences.
·
That the subject of diet has been one
of constant eare and anxiety to me will be apparent from two notices, copies of which I now have the honor to enclose-
6
112
"As I is posted in the wards, and was intended to check the
unreasonable
were
avidity of convalescents, especially amonget the English Police, who accustomed to take advantage of the timidity of the Chinese attendants. N± 2" is posted the entrance lobby of the Hospital and was adopted for the threefold purpose of excluding opium-epirits _ and fruit- to discourage the untimely visits of officious and evil disposed persons- and to control and regulate ostentations religious sanctioned by the creeds of come; so that they should not offend the prejudices of others- Although I never exercised
ceremonies.