114
漢務參贊申陳
號五十三百一第報憲
十 俾衆週知
百 及待貧人法抄印
第 督憲將下開批語
憲 漉事照得現奉
署輔政使司史篇
語批憲督法人貧待港香
憲 免音成無賴之流茲仰先在濟 貧之項支銀五圓給此貧婦一
督 善法可減如此貧人之艱苦而
貧 批據此禀末歐參贊所增一語 甚協本部堂意仰將提舉有何
待 批示如左 香港總督部堂燕 港 貧無靠等情禀懇賙濟 督憲 内因陳吳氏以已及兩幼子赤 卽本年第七百七十三號公文
舉善法以減貧人
初到申
或外為所此凡所現
在或亞國三遇等無稱
澳馬美人即者人皮窮
門
孻利或無大
在
陳事竊職奉到 漢務參贊 爲申 現在所有光景 二日批飭職提 所遇者大約可分 無藉流民有逃自舟船者有出自醫院者若輩 督憲大人四月初 此等人現在香港 若送往別行以爲已任但本港每有舟子原是 凡無度活費者是 外邦人每恐始羞本國視將稍有瓜葛之第窘 所稱窮繹之人朗 國之鄉親卽速設法助使附航別往蓋旅港之 一本港窮窘之人 致於無家室之外國人有因窮窘而來香港者 有至香港而致窮窘者若輩本國之領事或同
皆商流
不船民別
每
親
接期有行恐郋
例逃以貽
所自為
理舟
且
彼
船
者
速致
院舟
實稔
號 一千八百八十年
此謹將腐見申陳 也在澳門或香港 生長之西洋人二 無賴之流等語奉 度或馬孻等人一 實是嗜酒之輩彼終日閒游過酒家冀遇曩昔 之艱苦而免音成 或亞美利加或印 私彼實爲罔知懊改遊蕩之徒而巡理府識伊 外國人或毆羅巴 頭目皆不接納者按若輩混名水老鼠船政廳 之擔攫啖而不解囊晨往西人富厚之家俯首 同事之儔而作不速哺畷之客路遇挑販果
千八百八十年四月初二日批
懇請察閱
也華人三也
六月 初七日示
而求衣食有所得輒將沽作買酒費人夏時若
Mendicant.
There ought to be
come provision for old people who
have lived so many years
Colony.
in the
(Signer) J. Pope Stennessy.
29th January,
1880
No.135.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Report is published for general information.
By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART,
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Hongkong, 7th June, 1880.
TREATMENT OF PAUPERS IN HONGKONG.
MINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.
(In C.S.O. No.773 of 1880, Mrs. CH'AN née NG, petition for relief, having been left destitute with two children.)
I agree with Dr. EITEL's note on this petition
and would be glad if he would suggest some way
of mitigating the evils of this form of destitution whilst avoiding the formation of a pauper
class.
Meanwhile let him give this poor woman $5 from the Charitable Allowance Fund.
(Signed), J. POPE HENNESSY.
2nd April, 1880.
REPORT BY DR. EITEL.
In pursuance of His Excellency the Governor's Minute of the 2nd instant, to the effect that I
should suggest some way of mitigating the evils
of destitution, whilst avoiding the formation of a
pauper class, I have the honour to submit the following considerations :
1.---The present condition of destitutes in Hongkong,
The classes of destitutes, i.e. of
persons destitute of the actual necessaries of life, at present to be found in Hongkong, may roughly be divided into non-resident foreigners (i.e. Europeans, Americans, Indians and Malays), Macao or Hongkong born Portuguese, and Chinese.
As to non-resident foreigners arriving here in a state of destitution, or lapsing into it after arrival, their respective Consuls and countrymen speedily take some steps to get them shipped off elsewhere, as most foreign nationalities here consider it a duty of national self-respect to rid the Colony of their own paupers. Nevertheless there is always a small fluctuating residue of non-descript seamen, deserters, or men discharged from Hospital, who are beyond the pale of the Merchant Shipping Act, disowned by their respective Consuls and Shipping Masters, “beach-combers” well known to the Marine Magistrate as incorrigible loafers or to the Police Magistrate as drunken sots. They hang about the grog shops, levy blackmail on former shipmates and on native fruit hawkers, call at gentlemen's houses early in the morning begging for food and clothes which are forthwith converted into drink, and manage to get on well enough in summer when they can sleep out on
114
漢務參贊申陳
號五十三百一第報憲
十 俾衆週知
百 及待貧人法抄印
第 督憲將下開批語
憲 漉事照得現奉
署輔政使司史篇
語批憲督法人貧待港香
憲 免音成無賴之流兹仰先在濟 貧之項支銀五圓給此貧婦一
督 善法可減如此貧人之艱苦而
貧 批據此禀末歐參贊所增一語 甚協本部堂意仰將提舉有何
待 批示如左 香港總督部堂燕 港 貧無靠等情禀懇賙濟 督憲 内因陳吳氏以已及兩幼子赤 卽本年第七百七十三號公文
舉善法以減貧人
初到申
或外為所此凡所現
在或亞國三遇等無稱
澳馬美人即者人皮窮
門
孻利或無大
在
陳事竊職奉到 漢務參贊 爲申 現在所有光景 二日批飭職提 所遇者大約可分 無藉流民有逃自舟船者有出自醫院者若輩 督憲大人四月初 此等人現在香港 若送往別行以爲已任但本港每有舟子原是 凡無度活費者是 外邦人每恐始羞本國視將稍有瓜葛之第窘 所稱窮繹之人朗 國之鄉親卽速設法助使附航別往蓋旅港之 一本港窮窘之人 致於無家室之外國人有因窮窘而來香港者 有至香港而致窮窘者若輩本國之領事或同
皆商流
不船民別
每
親
接期有行恐郋
例逃以貽
所自為
理舟
且
彼
船
者
速致
院舟
實稔
號 一千八百八十年
此謹將腐見申陳 也在澳門或香港 生長之西洋人二 無賴之流等語奉 度或馬孻等人一 實是嗜酒之輩彼終日閒游過酒家冀遇曩昔 之艱苦而免音成 或亞美利加或印 私彼實爲罔知懊改遊蕩之徒而巡理府識伊 外國人或毆羅巴 頭目皆不接納者按若輩混名水老鼠船政廳 之擔攫啖而不解囊晨往西人富厚之家俯首 同事之儔而作不速哺畷之客路遇挑販果
千八百八十年四月初二日批
懇請察閱
也華人三也
六月 初七日示
而求衣食有所得輒將沽作買酒費人夏時若
Mendicant.
There ought to be
come provision for old people who
have lived so many years
Colony.
in the
(Signer) I. Pope Stennessy.
29th January,
1880
No.135.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
The following Report is published for general juformation.
By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART,
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Hongkong, 7th Jume, 1880.
TREATMENT OF PAUPERS IN HONGKONG.
MINUTE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR.
(In C. S. O. No. 773 of 1880, Mrs. CH'AN née NG, petition for relief, having been left destitute with two children.)
I agree with Dr. EITEL's note on this petition
and would be glad if he would suggest soine way
of mitigating the evils of this form of destitution whilst avoiding the formation of a pauper
elas5.
Meanwhile let him give this poor woman $5 from the Charitable Allowance Fund.
(Signed), J. PorE HENNESSY.
2nd April, 1880.
REPORT BY DR. EITEL.
In pursuance of His Excellency the Governor's Minute of the 2nd instant, to the effect that I
should suggest some way of mitigating the evils
of destitution, whilst avoiding the formation of a
pauper class, I have the honour to submit the following considerations :-----
1.---The present condition of destitutes in Hongkong,
The classes of destitutes, i.c. of
persons desti- tute of the actual necessaries of life, at present to be found in Hongkong, may roughly be divided into non-resident foreigners (ie. Europeans, Americans, Indians and Malays), Macao or Hongkong born Portuguese, and Chinese.
As to non-resident foreigners arriving here in a state of destitution, or lapsing into it after arrival, their respective Consuls and countrymen speedily take some steps to get them shipped off elsewhere, as most foreign nationalities here consider it a duty of national self-respect to rid the Colony of their own paupers. Nevertheless there is always a small fluctuating residue of non-descript seamen, deserters, or men discharged from Hospital, who are beyond the pale of the Merchant Shipping Act, disowned by their respective Consuls and Shipping Masters, “ beach-combers " well known to the Marine Magistrate as incorrigible loafers or to the Police Magistrate as drunken sots. They hang about the grog shops, levy blackmail on former shipmates and on native fruit hawkers, call at gentlemen's houses early in the morning begging for food and clothes which are forthwith converted into drink, and manage to get on well enough in summer when they can sleep out on
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