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Hongkong.
My Lord,
H. A Blake to S. ofS.
Et si Ma. Blake 770.253.
of 15 the July 1983,
No. 291 of 2nd June 1904.
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No 23 SEP 07 Government House,
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Hongkong, 22nd. August, 1907.
Referring to the correspondence
noted in the margin, I have the honour to transmit for
Your Lordship's consideration the enclosed copy of a
letter addressed to the Registrar-General by the Committee
of the Tung Wa Hospital asking for an increase of $4,000
per annum to the annual grant of $6,000 made to the
Hospital by the Government.
2.
The grounds upon which the Com-
-mittee base their application are the expense incurred by
the Hospital in burials of dead bodies sent there from the
Government Mortuaries; in the maintenance of the Plague
Hospital at Kennedy Town; and in repatriating Chinese
destitutes.
3.
The second item may be left out
of account because the Hospital in question was in exist-
-once 'before the grant of $6,000 per annum was made.
There.
HE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.G.,
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