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contribution is to be paid

Over

to the

customs of the Chinese in the boutment

Justices

of their

own

friends and relatives when

5

difficulties

7.

at the point of death.

The Colonial Surgeon

hit on

us might have been expected

more on

left important have

occasionally arisen, but they

appear to have been

but they all appear now surmounted and I see no reasonable ground for anticipating anything but a successful and useful

result from the experience acquired - a result, which will probably confer on the Native

Community a greater and more boon than any yet

1. any yet devised.

One of the difficulties recently

adjusted is interesting,

is interesting as it enables

me

to supplement the information forwarded

in my despatch No 724 with further and

authentic details

On one occasion found a man und patient

removed to

a room

where there

was

already a corpse awaiting burial and he justly remonstrated against such treatment of any person whilst actually living. Mr Lister, the Acting Registrar General, supposed that the Colonial Surgeon had found the patient in the shed outside the hospital and in the place where the coffins containing bodies prior:

S. S. No 726. Pem.

to removal

8.

are stored.

Mr Lister thereupon appears to have issued a very stringent notice on

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