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consultation with the Medical Officers

the Privy Council and the Commissioners in Lunacy with the view of testing the state and efficiency of Hospitals and Asylums in Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions.

As there is no Lunatic Asylum in the Colony, the Colonial Surgeon has returned the Papers sent to me blank, being of course unable to fill them up;

but I trust that your Lordship will not infer from such inability that there is any indisposition on the part of this Government to do all that is needed in respect to those who have become mentally afflicted while domiciled in the Colony.

Such contingencies are, I am happy to say, rare and when discovered in the Town or developed in the Civil Hospital, the patients, of a lower class, are either accommodated at the Gaol or attended to in the Civil Hospital until their friends can remove them to the Mainland.

If an Asylum were to be built and maintained at the expense of this Government, the probability is it would be unfairly made use of by the Chinese on the Mainland for the treatment and support of their afflicted Kinsmen and Countrymen, but, however desirable such an institution might be on philanthropic grounds.

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ML 408 consultation with the Medical Officers the Privy Council and the Commissioners in Lunacy with the view of testing the state and efficiency of Hospitals and Asylums in Her Majesty's Colonial Possessions. As there is no Lunatic Asylum in the Colony, the Colonial Surgeon has returned the Papers sent to me blank, being of course unable to fill them up; but I trust that your Lordship will not infer from such inability that there is any indisposition on the part of this Government to do all that is needed in respect to those who have become mentally afflicted while domiciled in the Colony. Such contingencies are, I am happy to say, rare and when discovered in the Town or developed in the Civil Hospital, the patients, of a lower class, are either accommodated at the Gaol or attended to in the Civil Hospital until their friends can remove them to the Mainland. If an Asylum were to be built and maintained at the expense of this Government, the probability is it would be unfairly made use of by the Chinese on the Mainland for the treatment and support of their afflicted Kinsmen and Countrymen, but, however desirable such an institution might be on philanthropic grounds.
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consultation with the Medical Officers

F

the Privy Council and the Commisioners in Lunsey with the view of testing the state and efficiency If Ampitals and Arylums in Her Majestips Olonial Popesions.

As there is no Lunatie Azymum in the Colony, the Colonial Surgeon has returned the Publes sent to me bank. being of course unable to fill

but I trust that your

them up;

Lordship will not infer from such inability that there is any indisparition on the part of this boremment to do all that is needed in respect to

have become mentally, -fflicted while domiciled in the Colony.

those who

may

b

Suck

Iam

ontingencico are, I am happy

say, rare and when discovered in the

Town or developed in the Civil Arpitan,

the patients, of a lower clay.

sither accommodated at the Gare

attended to in the Civil Aapital

until their friends

Can remove

them to the Mainland.

مد

Au

kylum

were

to be built

and maitrined at the expense of this Government, the probability is it would be unfairly made me of by the Chinese on the Mainland.

Mainland for the treatment and support of their afflicted Mindred and Countrymen, but, however, desirable such an instilution might be on philanthropic

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