epi
the criticisms of the Sung Wa Hospital contained in D. J.A. Lowson's report upon the demic of bubonic plague during 1894, and especially
to his expression of opinion that a "scheme might be devised which
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would satisfy the wishes of the Chinese without sacrificing.
well-being of
the sanitary well-
"the Colony!"
In reply
I beg to in.
form you scheme involves nothing
that D. Lowson's
short
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short of the abolition of the - Lung Wa Hospital and the tablishment of a Government Pauper Hospital, and that I am not prepared to seriously consider such a scheme, which, apart from financial object_ ions, would be very unpopu- Car with the Chinese, until
I
am
satisfied that the ad- ministration and sanitary arrangements of the dung Wa Hospital cannot be brought
up to a proper standard.
With