CO129-091 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1863 [1-3] — Page 336

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few private patients

their

are allowed to enter on

own account or rather

their friends

on

the account of

and neighbours in the large

island of Heaning shan, of which Macar

is the chief town, and who

are

generally

extremely anxious to pay anything rather than breathe the same air with a leper

These private patients enjoy the privilige of: occupying in due time the place of any defunct original inmates, their claim being only second to the claim of those, who confess to be Christians or who promise to become

converts

If we leave the City of

Macar

through the North-East gate, the Porta de S. Lazaro,

we soon discover a.

lonely.

building surrounded only by a few houses.

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