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dealing with pauperism in Hongkong

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In

my despatch N. 93

of the 28th of July, 1877, I touched

some

of the abuses which, not

on

ery

innaturally, had cropped up under the system of deporting all mendicants

the Chinese vac

race, cases

of old

men

of

and

women who had worked a good many years in Hongkong, but who, on getting

feeble from age, were deported to the

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opposite shore of China to die.

In His Lordship's

bov

despatch N. 3 of 3rd January, 1878, Lord W

thinking

barnarvon concurred with me in

that in some instances abuses had occurred and he expressed the hope that I might be able to devise some

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means

with such

cases which

of dealing

free from similar objections in

would be future.

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Your Lordship will barn

from the enclosed report. of Dr. Eitel, dated the 22nd of April, 1880; his memorandum

of the 194 of August, 1880, and the -minutes of the Excentive Council

of

28th

of July, 1880, what has been done on this subject.

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will see that in

Briefly, Your Lordship

BongKong

we have no

- poor law and no pauper class. The few

destitutes that occur in the small

European and American

community

are generally sent away by subscriptions amongst the benevolent English

and