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the Civil Hospital which exists in your Colony pending opportunity in the shape of the return to England of a Man of War of forwarding him home..
I have some reluctance in troubling you with the man although he came on here some years ago from Chefoo I would have kept him here but in the absence of appliances it is impossible to afford him the attention he requires.
here without greater expenditure than the facilities something affords will render necessary and on the principle laid down by The Government with regard to the relief of distressed seamen, for whose relief the Imperial Government in all cases pays, they should be retained at the ports in China.
Hong Kong is commonly suggested would appear to dictate my adoption of the step.. I have Communicated with the man's relatives who appear to be settled at Richmond in America, but have received no reply from them.
I enclose certified Copies of the Warrants directing his confinement as a lunatic and his transport to Hong Kong and have addressed Copy of this dispatch to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for
16 July, 1872.
MAbril 1872