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subject

for the colonies on this but it does not . This Colony is at the present time without any thing worthy of the name

of a hospital either private or public dying

sick and

men both

and Chinese are

Curopeans nightly tatten up

in our

Streets and roads and there

is no

their

fit place for

even the apology

is

reception, for a police hospital perched upon a crumbling hill which threatens to down on the first

topple

heavy burst of

wind and

rain.

Our

to such a

r jail is overcrowded

degree

as to render

almost impossible a proper

organization of prison labour

and

any

well concerted

and united attempt at

aseappe

must result in the

outbreak

of all our prisone

We have moreover been-

Compelled to declare our- inability to receive into the Colonial custody the - from the t

seamen

Sea

shipps

90

in our

the merchant

harbour.

and to

a

To place the jail upon proper footing

crest suitable hospitals