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being that of the work done in the interval between detection and the inquest) and, in short, that the whole expenditure of the ... was managed by some individual.
It further results from the facts in evidence that in the Koung tee and the pansi Cinigration depots of Hong Kong, all the sick amongst the great numbers of Chinamen, almost all being persons whatever brought, by methods, from the neighbouring Empire into that Colony, are trusted to be treated by Mr. Catchwell and those under him, pretty much at their discretion; that they are pronounced by them to be fit for removal to a miserable house called the "Tung Wah Hospital", and that the condition of patients there is such as to exclude almost the chance of their coming out alive.
What that mortality may be does not exactly appear. The enquiry not having found the tables of admissions, discharges, and deaths during any given period. But at least 73 per cent of the emigrants received appear to have perished within its walls: a mortality not only proven by Leffan Marker's evidence (the only living Maker examined) who acknowledges continuous employment there to the extent of from four to six daily, but also from ...
If your Lordship doubts that this frightful mortality is chiefly, if not entirely, due to the circumstance above discussed of the unfeeling, sordid, and revolting neglect and abandonment of those poor creatures by their foreign holders or owners, the positive testimony of the medical gentlemen, Dr. Murray and Dr. Cochrane, of the Inspector of Brothels, and of the other Official Witnesses will remove that doubt. It would be improper for the Association to reproduce the foul details of the annexed report in those particulars, and they gladly forbear. If the argument a cognite ad ignotum permitted it to be permissible after reading that part of the Report.
Those witnesses saw the dying and the dead wallowing together in floods of filth and covered with vermin in their beds, "shut in" and, in some cases, in "locked cells", without egress. They had to rouse the former from their stupor before they could determine whether they were alive. He did say, and finding by a ...
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