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be

only too good grounds for indignation

at their want of success.

Again the usual custom in

China is when a patient becomes dangerously ill either to remove him to

the large court or to another house,

that he may meet with

A - comfortable end - Rich and poor

alike agree?

in objecting to the death of their parents taking place in the bed room, and

all remaining

a ...

The ... conform to this habit of

dying;

Men ... in room.

removing whose illness admits of no

hope of recovery is any charge of cruelty mooted thereby, suspicion attaches of wishing to precipitate the death of the patient:

Yet seeing

the repeated warnings

that this Worship's proclamation

griseo,

that those who remove the

dying,

and

give orders for

guilty of manslaughter,

those who presume

their removal,

are

petitioners dare not in the face of such

laws run

severe

amy

The hospital

was instituted!

expressly for the relief of the Chinese poor under English jurisdiction, and

who

though in ...

many we have contrib=

have taken

suited and the action

... was

yet

intentions were

in return

... are

of the best nature,

subjected to

blame and punishment.

of their

of

If such be the result first acts, petitioners fear their future

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