Sir,
Enclosure 1.
Tung-Wa Hospital,
C.O.
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REC2
Rec'd 20 NOV 19
Hong Kong, 21st September, 1899.
I beg to annex
On behalf of the Directors of the Tung-Wa Hospital, I have the honour to request that you will be good enough to lay this letter before His Excellency the Governor at an early opportunity for His Excellency's favourable consideration.
2. Recognising the willing and much appreciated assistance which the Government has accorded to the various schemes of the Directors, they feel encouraged to approach His Excellency the Governor with the request that he may be pleased to recommend to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the free grant to the Hospital of the piece of Crown Land as shown in the enclosed tracing for the purpose of erecting a branch hospital to be styled the "Infectious Diseases Hospital."
3. ...
5. The reasons that have prompted the Directors in making this application are, that since the serious epidemic of plague in 1894, there has hardly been a year in which the Colony has been entirely free from the visitation of that dreadful disease. Hitherto, as you are aware, temporary ...
The Honourable J.H. Stewart Lockhart, C.M.G.
Colonial Secretary.
RAI.