CO129-135 - Public Offices & Others - 1868 — Page 491

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Incatures and that the existing Lock Hospital.

1

Kong Kong, and the Medical Staff could, with

1.

certain alterations, be made

sufficiently

available for the purpose, any

contribution

would be required from Army or Navy funds

towards the maintenance of the hospital.

Some doubt exists on this point

owing to the following passage in the Governor's

despatch of the 21st

of April, Page 8.

"I suggest therefore that the Colony

Should find the means for enlarging and

improving the Lock Hospital, and that the

expense of inspection, and

Medical Staff,

as well as all other items connected

therewith, should continue to be defrayed by

this government as at present"

Now as

no contribution is at present

made by this Department to the existing

Lock Hospital at Hong Kong

the mere

enlargement and improvement of it, which

had already been contemplated by the local

Government would not probably prevent the

Colony maintaining it entirely

as before;

but, before deciding this point, Sir John

Pakington would feel obliged by the views

of

the Duke

of Buckingham and Chandos

on the subject.

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

Your Obedient Servant,

Magher [?likely "Major"]

` for paragraphs. Minor corrections were made to improve readability and fix obvious OCR errors, such as "iMedical" to "Medical", "Soure" to "Some", "illadical" to "Medical", "cutirely" to "entirely", "Z" to likely be a misrecognition and removed or replaced with a more sensible word if context allows, "Magher fatto" likely being a name or title and "fatto" is not standard English, possibly "Major" or another title, though left as is due to uncertainty. "Kong Kong" to "Hong Kong" for consistency. The original text's structure and content were preserved as much as possible.