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tb. Kly, 1994.
39 have the honour to report as follows on the allegations in the extract from a despatch from the Viceroy of Canton to the Tsun, mentioned in your letter of the 8th instant.
It is contrary to fact that the Hong-Kong Officials are trying to force exclusively the foreign method. There are three Plague Hospitals for Chinese in Hong-Kong. One is under the management of the Medical Officer of the Government, the other is managed by the Anglo-Chinese institutions such as the Alice Memorial Hospital, some of the Staff or pupils are foreigners educated in Western laboratories, and the third is a Hospital of the Tung Wah Hospital.
In the first two hospitals patients are treated on the principles of Western Science, and in the last mentioned one Chinese practitioners by Chinese Doctors.
Chinese patients are allowed to go to the Hospitals they like for treatment too.
The majority go to the Chinese Hospital not a few to the other two, which have so far been the most successful of the three in treatment.
With regard to the statement that any Chinaman who is taken ill is immediately seized and placed in a bulk or the ...
The Acting Colonial Secretary,