CO129-020 - Sir John Davis - 1847 [5-8] — Page 333

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19th Aug. 1847

Victoria, Hongkong

From M. W

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I do hereby certify that 10 W. Tarrant

Clerk of Works come under any care at Macao; in the middle of August 1843/ labouring under the wast form of what has been called Hong hous

He had been ill for about a month, his life despaired of previous to his bring From the 20th August he

Fever

and

sent to Macao,

slightly improved till the beginning of September,

when a

relapse

came ou

Joul

flom which for weeks, no hopes of his recovery were entertained,

and even

consequences

after

fear of immediate fatal

had leased, his constitution had received shock, the powers of body and mind

so severe a shock, the

being greatly impaired _ his body nearly wholly paralyzed

and his memon entires's bone that

it appeared probable that at least mour mouth; must classe, before he would be fit for duty it he could remain in this climate at all. I

He

care,

was removed again to Hong Kong and placed in the seaman's Plospital under any in the beginning of betober, where he remained,

until the end of November, when he had so recovered as to be able to return to his more

for

house,

Still