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Appendice above
THE YEE-TSZE HOSPITAL. An inquest was held at the Civil Hospital on Saturday afternoon (24th), F. Stewart, Esq., the Coroner, on the body of a Chinese emigrant who died in the Yee-Tsze Hospital.
The following were the Jury: Messrs Edwin Farrell (foreman), Otto Frederick, and A. Thompson.
A juryman asked if witness knew that a doctor had ever visited the place?
Witness: I was told that some of the patients were from the emigration houses; one or two were chair coolies; and the rest were from different parts of the town, from families and shops.
The Coroner: Describe the state of the Hospital.
Witness: In regard to the state of the hospital, I can only say that the attendant there could not tell me without shaking any particular man, whether the man was alive or not.
My visit on the 22nd was not the first, but it was the first on which I had found any patients or dead bodies.
The Coroner: How many did you find used as wards for patients?
Witness: I found four occupied by patients.
The Coroner: Did you go over each?
Witness: The first room was not high enough to admit of a man standing up. It was about 4 feet by 3, with no window, but only slits on the wall, and they were covered.
A Chinese bed was placed on trestles, at a height from the ground of three or four feet, and this board nearly filled the room.
On this board lay a man who, I was told, was suffering from diarrhoea.
The Coroner: Did you see any attempt to make the man comfortable, any medicine, for instance?
Witness: There were no bottles of medicines. Vessels were at the place for the necessities of nature, but I was given to understand that the man had been shut in the room because he was delirious, and would not come out.
The Coroner sent Sgt Gray to get all the books belonging to this "hospital."
Witness continued: The room contained three people unable to speak or move. I do not think there were any mats on the trestles.
The Coroner: Was there any ventilation in this place?
Witness: Only an opening in the door. There was no effective ventilation, so far as I could see.
I saw a dead patient, and I saw a coolie offer some tea to one who was delirious.
The Coroner: What in your opinion is the motive for sending patients to such a place? Is it that they may be cured, or to die?
Witness: The Chinese cannot get over their hatred of persons dying in their house, and these men, I believe, were sent to the place, not so much to be cured as to die, and so avoid dying in any person's house.
The Coroner: Can you assign any reason for the apparent carelessness in this case?
Witness: Yes; from the number of persons brought by exceptional circumstances into the colony, who have no friends whatever in the place, or anywhere else.
Dr Cochrane said he visited the place early yesterday morning, but he saw nothing about it to indicate its being a Hospital.
Mr Lister: An Inspector of police might have gone down there a dozen times, and never have suspected that the place was other than a coolie residence.
Dr Cochrane said the place was utterly unfit for hospital purposes, and the chances of recovery there must be very small.
The Coroner: I shall ask for very strong proof of the possibility that anybody ailing could come out alive.
The Master of the Hospital, a man named Wong-chi-lam, said he knew the deceased, but was ignorant of his name.
The Coroner asked Mr Caldwell if he did so rely on this man.
Mr Caldwell: Yes, I have never asked him for any account. If he wanted any money for burial, he could have it.
The Coroner: I presume that as Mr Caldwell has seen the weak point in the coolie system.