avoid the formation of a pauper class. For the last two years His Excellency the Governor has virtually done this and instead of consulting, as he originally did, the Tung-wá Committee, His Excellency has occasionally referred questions affecting Chinese poor to certain leading men as the Nám-pak-hong merchants. All I advocate is the formal recognition of just such a “Committee of Referees" who should not be Compradors, not the Tung-wá Hospital Association, and yet have sufficient influence in the latter Committee to secure the hearty co-operation of the Tung-wá Hospital staff when needed. Such a Committee of Referees would soon develop into a Charity Organization Society and possibly other organizing Committees of reference for municipal affairs might develop from such a stock.
But there are other remedies, in my opinion, which should be seen to by the Government at the same time. In the first instance, the Law, as it stands in its barbaric provisions regarding the flogging of mendicants, should be revised. Next, as the great fountain source from which destitution springs is to be found in the poorest classes of the population, the poor should have less obstacles thrown in the way of their obtaining squatter's licences free of hampering conditions, for settling on the hillsides, for erecting their sheds and cottages in their own style, for keeping pigs and poultry and raising vegetables. Next, I would recommend that neither the Government Civil Hospital nor the Government Lunatic Asylum be kept closed against the Chinese as these institutions hitherto were. The Magdalene Institution at Wán-tsai should be accorded State aid on a far more liberal principle, so as to enable that charitable institution to combine with its present purposes a free hospital for the contagious diseases of women. Arrangements should also be made in the Gaol or elsewhere, either independently by the Government or in combination with the West Point Reformatory, to separate juvenile offenders, who only too frequently drift either into the condition of habitual paupers or criminals, from all the other prisoners in the Gaol, and to subject them, during the term of their imprisonment, to an essentially different treatment, such as would not merely be deterrent but tend towards a reformation of habit and character. But as most important of all I regard the duty of the Government to aim, without claiming a monopoly for its education, at obtaining a stronger influence on the elementary education of the lower classes. Public funds should therefore be far more liberally devoted to the education of the poorest than to that of the well-to-do classes, and the promotion of English teaching in elementary schools for the common people should be attempted by the Government in preference to the costly teaching of the higher branches of an English Education desired by the middle and upper of Chinese residents.
E. J. EITEL,
Acting Chinese Secretary.
22nd April, 1880.
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16
香右
燕陳
別
漸
局生
而妥
辦理
理濟
每行將初
一須改現有猛烈之例卽鞭笞慣乞之人所有各歎
賙濟之條音成無賴之輩前二年 所欲行者如此之公局必漸生安理濟 爲此須至至申陳者
情仰彼稽查分別辦理且如此,不患 但照卑職愚見更有一法卽國家宜用同時一并頒行者 值理者但其人須能使東華醫院助其 等人家義学國家叉須踴躍在窮人初學中英文愈於所有華民中上孩童習英文之大學而費用極多者 爲洋行買辦者又非必要屬東華醫院 卽照卑職愚見國家雖無庸占教化全權亦宜奮力感動下流之初學故應用國餉助賞窮人義學愈於助賞中 卽國家須特認如此公局若輩非必要 所有他因另行隔別且在彼監禁之期另具一般治理卽毌徒用恐喝之法應由勸人悛改之方 六所最要者 情事商於南北行商故卑職所陳腐見 必須設法使該犯中之年少者分別另理因此等少年每多流於慣寫無賴或作盜賊故最善莫如使彼與獄内 理人等咨詢邇來每將關涉華人窮窘 時之用且另設博濟院面療婦女之有花柳症者 五在監獄或分別之處無論國家或兼同西營盤之養正院 督憲實嘗屢如此行初向東華醫院値 國家勿行現在閉醫院及癲狂院門拒絕華人不使人内之法 四國家宜厚助灣仔之從艮院使彼不但盡現 二須憶篛窘之源按此輩多下流故毋阻貧人領暫居牌照且容彼在山麓搭寮音豕養鷄種植蔬菜 三
貧會且由此基或可另生別局而辦理 右
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香港總督部堂燕
一千八百八十年 四月 二十二日
Extracts from
Minutes
C. O.
12802
RECD 19 JUN 81
118
the Executive Council held in Wednesday, 28th July, 1880
Present
His Excellency the Governor. Sir John Pope Hennessy. K.C.M.G.
The Honorable the acting Colonial Secretary. Mr. Frederick Stewart.
The Honorable The Attorney General. Eward Loughlin O'Malley.
The Honorable John Macneile Price.
The condition of the Paupers in the Colony is brought to the notice of the Council and attention called to the Report of Mr. Eitel published in the Gazette of 9th June 1880. After full consideration of the subject the Council unanimously advises the
avoid the formation of a pauper class. For the
last two years His Excellency the Governor has
virtually done this and instead of consulting, as
he originally did, the Tung-wá Committee, His
Excellency has occasionally referred questions
affecting Chinese poor to certain leading men as
the Nám-pak-hong merchants. All I advocate is the formal recognition of just such a “Committee
of Referees" who should not be Compradors, not the Tung-wá Hospital Association, and yet
have
sufficient influence in the latter Committee to secure the hearty co-operation of the Tung-wá Hospital staff when needed. Such a Committee
of Referces would soon develop into a Charity
Organization Society and possibly other orga nizing Committees of reference for municipal
affairs might develop from such a stock.
But there are other remedies, in my opinion,
which should be seen to by the Government at
the same time. In the first instance, the Law, ast
it stands in its barbaric provisious regarding the flogging of mendicants, should be revised. Next,
as the great fountain source from which destitu-
tion springs is to be found in the poorest classes
of the population, the poor should have less obstacles thrown in the way of their obtaining
squatter's licences free of hampering conditions,
for settling on the hillsides, for erecting their sheds and cottages in their own style, for keeping
pigs and poultry and raising vegetables. Next, would recommend that neither the Government
Civil Hospital nor the Government Lunatic Asy-
lum he kept closed against the Chinese as these institutions hitherto were. The Magdalene Ins- titution at Wán-tsai should be accorded State aid on a far more liberal principle, so as to enable that charitable institution to combine with its present purposes a free hospital for the contagious diseases of women. Arrangements should also be made in the Gaol or elsewhere, either inde- pendently by the Government or in combination with the West Point Reformatory, to separate juvenile offenders, who only too frequently drift either into the condition of habitual paupers or criminals, from all the other prisoners in the Gaol, and to subject them, during the term of their im- prisonment, to an essentially different treatment, such as would not merely be deterrent but tend towards a reformation of habit and character. But as most important of all I regard the duty of the Government to aim, without claiming a
monopoly for its education, at obtaining a stronger influence on the elementary education of the lower classes. Public funds should therefore be far more liberally devoted to the education of the poorest than to that of the well-to-do classes, and the promotion of English teaching in elementary schools for the common people should be attempted by the Government in preference to the costly teaching of the higher branches of an English Education desired by the middle and upper of Chinese residents.
E. J. EITEL,
Acting Chinese Secretary.
22nd April, 1880.
classes
5
16
香右
燕陳
別
漸
局生
而妥
辦理
理濟
每 行 將 初
一須改現有猛烈之例卽鞭笞慣乞之人所有各歎
賙濟之條音成無賴之輩前二年 所欲行者如此之公局必漸生安理濟 爲此須至至申陳者
情仰彼稽查分別辦理且如此,不患 但照卑職愚見更有一法卽國家宜用同時一并頒行者 值理者但其人須能使東華醫院助其 等人家義学國家叉須踴躍在窮人初學中英文愈於所有華民中上孩童習英文之大學而費用極多者 爲洋行買辦者又非必要屬東華醫院 卽照卑職愚見國家雖無庸占教化全權亦宜奮力感動下流之初學故應用國餉助賞窮人義學愈於助賞中 卽國家須特認如此公局若輩非必要 所有他因另行隔別且在彼監禁之期另具一般治理卽毌徒用恐喝之法應由勸人悛改之方 六所最要者 情事商於南北行商故卑職所陳腐見 必須設法使該犯中之年少者分別另理因此等少年每多流於慣寫無賴或作盜賊故最善莫如使彼與獄内 理人等咨詢邇來每將關涉華人窮窘 時之用且另設博濟院面療婦女之有花柳症者 五在監獄或分別之處無論國家或兼同西營盤之養正院 督憲實嘗屢如此行初向東華醫院値 國家勿行現在閉醫院及癲狂院門拒絕華人不使人内之法 四國家宜厚助灣仔之從艮院使彼不但盡現 二須憶篛窘之源按此輩多下流故毋阻貧人領暫居牌照且容彼在山麓搭寮音豕養鷄種植蔬菜 三
貧會且由此基或可另生別局而辦理 右
香港衆人之事
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香港總督部堂燕
一千八百八十年 四月 二十二日
Extracts from
Adinutes
RECR
C. O.
12802
REGO 19 JUN 81
118
the Cucutive 吓
Council held in Weemeeray, 28th July, 1880
Present
His Excellewey the Governor. Sir John Pope Hennessy. t. C.A.G.
The Monorable the acting floniel Secretary. Of Frederick Stewart.
The Honorable The Attorney General. Ewad Loughlin O'malley-
The Honorable John Macneile Price.
The condition of the Paupert
in the
folony is brought to the notice of
the
founcil and attention called to
the Report of & litel publisher
Gazette of 9th June
in
of 9th June 1880. After full
consideration
of
the
subject
the
founcil unanimously advises the
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