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No
52.
nclosure 1.
Sir,
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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
HONGKONG, 9th. February, 1912.
I have the honour to enclose an extract from
the debate on the Annual Estimates which refers to the condition of the so-called "Lunatic Asylum".
2.
3.
This is a question which periodically occurs,
and a Committee was appointed by Sir W. Robinson to report on the matter on the 7th. October, 1895. I need not at the moment trouble you either with the conclusions arrived at by that Committee or with the steps taken by me recently after an inspection of the premises accompanied by several Unofficial Members of the Council.
It will suffice for my present purpose to point out that no Lunatic Asylum in the proper sense of the term viz.:- a Home for the care and cure of lunatics exists in this Colony, and that it is neither feasible nor advisable to make one, both because the number of lunatics to be dealt with are extremely few, (and should properly be much fewer) and because the great cost of such an institution would be out of all proportion to the need.
4.
Hongkong has never done more than provide a temporary place of detention for lunatics pending their repatria- -tion to their country of origin; and in the few cases in which the Colony itself is the country of origin it is prepared to pay whatever charges may be made by the country with which the lunatic is identified racially, in order that the patient may receive
RICHT HONOURABLE
LEVIS HARCOURT, M.P.,
&c.,
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