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(T. 15.)
HONGKONG
TO WIT.
An Enquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lady The Queen, at the House known as The Government Civil Hospital, situate in Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, on the Fifteenth day of November in the Year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Seventy Seven.
Before James Russell, Gentleman, the Coroner of our said Lady The Queen for the said Colony, on view of the Body of Sin A-chin then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of Harry Wicking, Robert Kenne, Samuel Arighe Boyd, six good and lawful Men of the said Colony, duly chosen, and who, being duly sworn, and charged to inquire for our said Lady The Queen when, how, and by what means the said Sin A-chin came to his Death, do upon their Oaths say.
THAT, the deceased died at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, on the 15th November in the year aforesaid, in consequence of injuries accidentally received on the 13th November in the year aforesaid at the Canton wharf in this Colony.
The jury find further that the Medical attendance at the Civil Hospital is inadequate. The resident Surgeon attending the deceased was absent at the inquest, when brought to the Hospital, and during such absence of the Superintendent, the Hospital is without medical attendant.
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