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The Itize Temple of an Hospital where moribund patients were frequently
The Chinese.
420-11
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Your Lordship's first three inquiries refer to the existence of such a place having been so long undiscovered, and to the possibility of there being any other similar places, and also to what has been done or is being done to remove the evil brought to light.
All these topics have been so fully reported in my communication No. 726 of the 21st June last, and again in despatch No. 775 of the 18th August last, that it would be difficult to obtain additional particulars to illustrate them with.
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I trust, however, Your Lordship will perceive from those communications that this Government has been from the first perfectly alive to its duties and responsibilities, and perfectly able to deal with them satisfactorily. I have some hope that Your Lordship may derive as accurate information from the regular channel of communication of events occurring here, as from the parties who transmitted the ill-advised and unreliable document which Your Lordship has forwarded to me on the part of a Committee of the Social Science Association. That paper is in fact so full of misstatements and...