CO129-037 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [6-9] — Page 112

Civil Hospital are regulated, and the authority for the

Lane.

are

2. The authority under - which indulgences supplied to the sick in the Gaol.

my

I have already stated in letter to Mr Rienaecker that " in the Civil Hospital

• prescribed and invariable seales of diet are adhered to

ho

Neither

are

there

any

authorized regulations relating to Hospital diets in the Civil service of this Colony, the arrangements for provisioning the sick having been tacitly left, as I have understood, to the discretion of the Colonial Surgeon!

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I am onware that there

exist in the Military Hospitals exact scales of diet, most. unsuited I will venture to

Lay to the peculiarities of this climate, but this system

even.

if it's innate merit deserved its adoption I am convinced could not possibly be adhered to in the Civil Hospital of Hongkong which receives for its inmates persons representing a most remarkable diversity of races - religions- qustoms, - and prejudices, whose conventionalities

could not be combated without a most unseemly contention against their religion - nor without exciting passions and emotions wholly incompatible with the placid condition of