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Appendice above above

THE YEE-TSZE HOSPIÝM. Anuquest was held at the Civil Hospi lal ojaturday afternoon (24), F. Stewart, Beg, the Coroner, ou the body of a Chi nego emigrant who died in the Yentaze Hospital.

The following were the Jury: Messrs Edwin Farrell (foreman), Otto Frederick and A. Thompson.

uferred to of the two Reports of equ

doctor had ever visited the place ?

A juryman asked if witness knew that a

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verore, but they thought he had been these. "the day before that. They did not know groan that the man was alive, he (the cool

when he would come. Fle came, they lis) cursed him in Chinese. The body was

said sometimes... I am told that one or lyug on the floor covered with dust and two of the patients had their own doctors, dirt, gathered I should say from rolling ont

but these were from private houses in the four, and from contact with the wall town. Tin other persoir in the room was dead a

The Coroner remarked that he could he tatt on a ragged pair of trowsers soaked corroborate what My Lister had said, with in filth, His legs were crusted in little exception. and dirt, from which I imagined that he had been there a long time and not attend ed to. The other body was dead and rallier offensive. A coffin was ordered for I have been on my feet night and day to Witness: I wish to assure the jury that the first body Thad seen,

get this nuisance abated, and I have not The Coroner: Did you make any enquiry have time to enquire whether there at BUY about the patients, where they came from? Ching-doctors in attendance vent," "My

Witness: I did.

I was told that some of only cares for the patients. the patients were from the emig trouses; one or two were chair cooles; and Hospital, deposed that deceased was brough Dr Cochrane, superintendent of the Civi the rest were from different part of the into the hospital yesterday, in a very Alth town, from families and shops. I stand emaciated condition. There were hu deceased twice before he died. One of

Had 7 dreds of vermin in his hair. As far as was lived he could have been brought to toss could judge, out a post mortem, Hospital here. I made a second Ist about, ikii ni hour after eoncluding the, one just mentioned, and found that one of the dead fat teen placed in a coffin, the flours had been swept, the pools of urine, cleared ashes put down, and some food

bro ught in by some people a basin of rice, with a hard boiled egg in it was by the side of a

Mr Listor deposed: I am Acting. Regis- ar of the Colony. I first saw deceased on the morning of the 22nd, when he formed one of should say from 8 to 10 persons- fying on a building at Taipingshau, known as the Kwong-to-kee. I did not make aty anqntries about deceased particularly, but was very much struck by the utter neglect and filth of the place. The next day Friday sent round to have any dead bodies brought way that might be lying there. the persons I saw lying there was deceased.

The Coroner: Describe the state of the Hospital

Witness: In regard to the state of the hospital i can only say, that the attendant there could not tell me without shaking ap any prddular man, whether the wun was alive-genot."My visit on the 22nd was fire-wyway means the first, but it was the first on which I bad found any patients or dead bodies, Whenever I had been before, the cells were empty; in fact I ooked on them as a number of small cook houses I knew there was a hospital there, but on my former visits i fuminio patients, The pince consists of perhaps 8, from 6 to 8, coons, some of which are used as living zooms, and oue as a cook house.

The Coroner: How many did you find meed as wards for patients 7

Witness: I found four occupied by batiunta.

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The Coroner: Did you go over each i Witness: The first room was not high enough to admit of a man standing op. was about 4 feet by 3, with no window, but only slits on the wall, and they were Sovered. A Chinese bed was placed on essels, at a height from the ground of hree or four feet, and this board nearly led the room,

On this board lay a man bo, I was told, was suffering from diar

**de was bartioaded to the place Jign sliding door. When I saw him. * was sitting up on the bed in an attemot to obey

a call of untura He had no other place than this whereon to do so. That man is since dead.

The Coroner: Did you see any attempt to make the man comfortable, any medi- cine, for instance ?

Witness: There were no bottles of medi- cinos. Vessels were at the place for the necessities of nature, but I was given to understand that the man had been shut in the room, because he was delirious, and; wendel coma out.

The Coroner sent Sant Gray to get all the books belong this "hospital," Witness continged The room contained three people unable to speak or

or move. feed not otherwise describe them." ~The robin was about half the size of this (about 5 by 20 feet). They were tying on Clu nese beds placed on tressels. I do not think there were any mats on the tressels. The Coloner Was there any ventilation in this place?

Witness: Only an opening in the door. There was no erective ventilation, so far as

dead patient, and I saw a coolio offer some tea to one who was delirious. I believe this was done sixty because I was there. (Sergt. Grey hore returned, with books from the Hospital," among which were three small slips of paper, with Chinese writing thereon.) I have since removed all the patients, dead and alive. Two only aro surviving. I have closed up the place. for the present, and it has good white. washed, I believe at Mr. R. Carwell's expense.

TCoroner: What in your opinion is the motive for sending patients to such a place Is it that they may be cured, or to die?

Witness: The Chinese cannot get over their hatred of persons dying in their bouse, and these men, I believe, were sent to the place, not so much to be cured as to die, and so avoid dying in any person's house but the commonest ofliess of mumanity were not paid to thom while dying. I should like to state, to relieve, the minds of the jury and of the public that I think this horrible state of things has not gone on lore, as I have been there several times during the last year, and it has also, I know, been regularly inspected by the luspector of Nuisances; in fact it was a report of his which first drew my attention to the exist ence of such a place. I think that people, may have been taken there by oues or twos, have died, and been taken away; but think if they had had friends here, they would have been looked after, and that such an accumulation of horrors could not have existed detected.

very long without being

The Coroner: Can you assign any reason for the apparent carelessness in this case?

Witness: Yes; from the number of per- sous brought by exceptional circumstances into the colony, who have no friends what- ever in the place, or over any elsewhere. think it must have been soon detected, because on the morning I went to the place received an independent report from Anspector Peterson, who called my alton tion to 1. What I mean is, that if I had hotdiscovered it, some one else would.

The Coroner asked if any distinction was and those who made in the place between ordinary patients came from emigration houses/

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examination, death had resulted from jaundice, which was so very autong Chinamen at present. A post mor- tem might disclose other facts.

The Coroner directed that a post mortem examination should be made; The case was one of great public interest.

Dr Cochrane said he visited the place early yesterday morning, but he saw nothing about it to indicate its being a Hospital.

Mr Lister: An Inspector of police might have gone down there a dozen times, and never have suspected that the place was other than a coolie residence.

Dr Cochrane said the place was utterly anfit for hospital purposes, and the chances of recovery there must be very sprat.

The Coroner: 1 shall ask for very strong proof of the possibility that anybody ailing could come out alive.

The Master of the Hospital, a man nam- ed Wong-chi-lam, said he knew the de- deasod, but was ignorant of his name. The deceased was brought by a person unknown to him, who said that deceased was from the "Kwong-kee emigration house, but decensent had said he never was inside the "Kwong-kee." The man who brought the decoased to Hospital spoke a strange dia- lect. No paper was given with deceased, who was carried to Hospital about ten days ago, on the other man's back. He also auderstood the bearer to say that deceased came from on board ship. There are a few people who regularly carry patients from the emigration houses as they say. That is at one proe, lie had of their coming from a barracoon. He had only received three tickets from the emigration houses, al- though he had had perhaps tenor eleveni patients from those houses He had been paid for all the eleven He did not trouble himself whether deceased was paid for or not. Mr Caldwell paid for deceased persons. The Corner: Has he rendered an account to Mr Caldwell in this case, and has Mr Caldwell paid him for it i

Witness: I have received $10.40 from Mr Caldwell I have not rendered an account to Mr. Cabwell.

The Coroner: Does Mr Caldwell pay him simply on his statement that so many people have died there?

Witness: As soon as a person dies from the emigration honse, I report it to Mr Caldwell, and then he gives me something through a Kow.

The Coroner: Did be report the death of this man, and has he received payment? Witness: I did go to report the death of deceased, but A-Kow was not in at Mr Caldwell's. I was told A-Kow was will

I can remember; the opening in the daor was the only means of ventilation and of light, for the slits by the side were stopped up. Witnesa described the horrible condi- Witness: I cannot say if any distinction board ship, but another person in Mr tion in which the men's clothes and hodits!

is made. I am told it is the custom for Caldwell's house said, were owing to their inability to rise frem

you can take $2 their beds. The witness continued: Ong of friends. I saw one man's wife there. The to bury decensed.””

Chinese to go there and look after their from the money already advanced to you, these persons was delirious and one a corper ! These people were lying on a sort of large

people of the place persistently denied hav-

The Coroner : How is he to satisfy Mr wooden slab. The next room contained tweed whatever. They said they sometimes did he keep

ing any admission tickets or books of re- Caldwell that a man is dead? What account persons lying on the earthen forgot a slip of paper with a man, and some-

Witness: Mr Caldwell has no accounts should say in perfect markmoss before the times they did not. They showed three door was opened,

from me. I was told that the slips of paper (produced) as the entire record

He knows I am an honest man. were both dead. Inspector Gray, who was of the place.

The Coroner asked Mr Caldwell if he with me, thought one of

They did not know any

did so rely on this man. line thing of patients from the country.

The Coroner: And from what I saw they

I told the attentant so. He persisted that the man was dead, I did not like to touch the man myself, be was so dirty. I insister"

on the coofle Taising his arm to see far

was alive. He did so, and finding

seemed to care less.

Witness continued: the doctor had not been there on the day of my viste, then

Mr Caldwell: Yes, I have never asked him for any account. If he wanted any money for burial, he could have it.

The Coroner. I presume that as Mr

Caldwell has seen the weak point in the

coolie system.