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foreign residents and some assistance from the Governor's charitable allowance suggested by one of them in the interview fund: whilst, as regards the great mass of the community, the Directors of the Jung Weh Hospital are good enough to act as a sort of Charity Organization Society. These gentlemen provide relief for the deserving Chinese who need it and they had, on the 19th August, 1880, an alms house in connection with the Jung Wah Hospital where aged Chinese, who had worked in Hongkong for ten or twenty years and had no relatives to support them, might be received.
They also pay out of their own pockets for the cost of sending other destitute Chinese to their native places in China in addition to other mendicants deported by the Magistrates.
5. Beyond the very useful work those gentlemen perform, I do not know that anything else is needed except the sort of Chinese alms-house. For building such an addition to the Hospital, I venture to ask Your Lordship for a grant of twenty thousand dollars from the Special Fund. The Chinese residents in the colony are willing to subscribe amongst themselves for its maintenance, and, by leaving its management in their hands, there can be little doubt