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his mind in its crass materialism ties the idea of a future life to the very body. Besides, round the bones of the aead, centre the auties of ancestral worship which involves the peace of the asad ena the prosperity of the living. These ideas require that the body shall be carefully buried, in a certain place that can be easily visited by descendants, or whence the bones can be readily removed to the femily burial place.
The following concessions would satisfy the Chinese in Hong Kong and end the present state of tension between the Government and nine tenths of the governed (1) that all Chinese attacked with plague in the Colony should be allowed, if they chose, to go to a Chinese Hospital on Chinese territory; (2) that the bodies of those who die in hongkong should be buried in a Cemetery in Chinese territory; (3) that quicklime should not be put in the coffins; (4) that Chinese patients should not be subjected to the treat- ment of Foreign Doctors.
It is too late to persuade a man of the excellence of foreign medicine when death is upon him even a cordon on steam-launches will not alter his
ideas.
Besides it appears that for the month from the middle of May to the middle of June the proportion of deaths to admissions in Hong Kong was, under British -Doctor 77 per cent, end, under Netive Doctor 76 per
cent. So that there is no reason why the British
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# See Hong Kong Deily Press of 18th June 1894.
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