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12.

omitted from the Commission . Mr. Walker takes his

seat in accordance.

Doctor Dempster; Evidence

continued: -

And

There are sick wards

in the Juil for Curaprons Chinese . The word for the Europeans is capable of

accommodation

affording for five patients. The ward for the Chinose affords for kn

accommodation

patients. I have not had

more than

than five Europeans one time, but

sicks at any

202

I have had twenty eight

Chinese and other Usiaties sick at me time. I find great difficulty in heating the Chinese, because of their perversity in

refusing

to

take medicine and again that in some manner -

unknown to me, they obtain

lasters and medicine

plastere from the exterior of the Juil. In this last respect,

a

recently, there has been

the practice. I

Of the

decrease O

of

id that tobacco is

find the

cr

occasionally surreptitiously

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