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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