16
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during
the South West Monsoon. - If it is practicavie to intre advantage of the present condition of things to make Stone - Cutters Island the principal Military Station, I
have
720
hesitation in expressing my opinion, that both Military and Civilians would be gainers in a sanitary point of view The Hospital system has always appeared to me very inadequate to the population- In fact it may be broadly
stated that there is no
Hospital for Chinese, who form such a vast majority
of our population.
There
are three Classes of Patients;
1. The utterly destitute whether
Foreign or Native
2.
The
paying
Chinese and
5. The
paying
European.
In the Government
Civil Hospital we
we recognise only- the first class besides the Police force. In the Seamans Hospital only the third class is recognised... I believe that if the two establishments were
and a
amalgamated
small taxe levied on the whole population, European and Native, such
an
Hospital might
be created as would be worthy