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THE TUNG WA HOSPITAL.
The word hospital does not convey an adequate idea of the work performed by this Institution.
The disclosure of the shameful neglect of the dead and dying Chinese in the old 'I Tsz' led to the establishment of the Tung Wa in Sir Richard Graves MacDonnell's time as, not only a hospital for sick Chinese, but also as a place where the moribund might be brought, according to Chinese custom, to die in peace whether destitute or not. A mortuary was naturally an adjunct of such an establishment where the dead might lie in practically hermetically sealed coffins till their friends transferred them to their own native soil. But though a miniature "city of the dead" is thus in existence above ground a much larger resting place is provided for the friendless in the cemetery in the neighbourhood of the mortuary on the Western slopes of the island. This even is not always a permanent resting place, as,