CO129-002 - Sir Henry Pottinger - 1843 — Page 377

| from the wages of Police, and others of that.

description, while unfit for duty, which would : help towards the support of the establishment. In pointing out the necessity of... providing for the accommodation of, and attendance upor, public servants requiring Medical

treatsuwat. I would take the liberty of suggesting the propriety of continuing any establishment for that purpose with the leamen's Hospital..

Your Execllency is aware that a Hospital for

Lamer had been kept up for some Years in Macao, and that the sum of $12,000 was given by WW: Heerjeebhoy Rustomjee for the purpose of assisting to form a limilar institution in

the site.

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Honghong of this tum $5,500 has been already expended, in erecting the present building upon

granted by Your Excellency for that purpose, and the remaining $3,500 will be required to complete the establishment. The Expenses of the Inilitution have hitherto been

defrayed

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defrayed, by the charges upon Ships for seamen admitted from them, and the payments made. by Government for the maintenance of distressed British Subjects requiring Hospital heatment.

These charges however, though very heavy, would not have been sufficient, had not the establishment been freed from the expense of house rent by contributions from the community, and the Surgeon to the Superintendents been

Medical attendance

enabled to give the necessary

without any charge upon the institution. In Honghong however this will be out of the power of the Colonial. Medical Officer, wen were two attached to the Government; unless by some

arrangement for the reception of Government servants, the labour of attending upon them in remote quarters be lessened.

for

The situation granted by Your Excelleney the zeamer's Hospital, is one well adapted

for the purpose; being lofty and airy, and as far

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