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Hongkong, March 23, 1853.

The Read. Mr. Stadman, the folesal

Chaplain, having submitted homself to my

inspection, I have to report upon his health as follows:

I find that his services in this Colony have embraced a period of Seven year and

a

half,

during six of which he was Military Chaplain, and for

one

e year

and a half he has acted as folonial Chaplain

In the

6 years 1846-7

he

experiences

a

severe attack of Remittent. Fear, the endemic of

this island. This was followed by

an attack of

Dycentery of the Erythematic type; it lasted

for three months, and was succeeded,

the

case,

by obstinate constipation

as is ce

commonly

I have been acquainted with Mr.

Steadman for upwards of five years, and I

have obecnice the progress of that inciditus

deterioration in health which cannot so much be