CO129-037 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [6-9] — Page 114

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both months inclusive, there

sickness

were 222 cases of treated in the Civil Hospital. within the aggregate of 2,288 days and 172 cases of sickness in the Gaol for which I have allowed 286 days sustenance from the Civil Hospital. The expense of provisions, medical comforts, to, was

during the ₤105-7-3/2 which

last

Year

gives a rate of about of per

head per day for provisions,

wine and all other

including uidulgences.

·

That the subject of diet has been one

of constant eare and anxiety to me will be apparent from two notices, copies of which I now have the honor to enclose-

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"As I is posted in the wards, and was intended to check the

unreasonable

were

avidity of convalescents, especially amonget the English Police, who accustomed to take advantage of the timidity of the Chinese attendants. N± 2" is posted the entrance lobby of the Hospital and was adopted for the threefold purpose of excluding opium-epirits _ and fruit- to discourage the untimely visits of officious and evil disposed persons- and to control and regulate ostentations religious sanctioned by the creeds of come; so that they should not offend the prejudices of others- Although I never exercised

ceremonies.