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last, attention is called to a despatch of Governor Hennessy in which the Lunatic Asylum and Omall box Hospital are referred to as what might be called those temporary institutions,
and doubts are
o
expressed by Your
Lordship in
consequence
whether
a
-new Lunatic Asylum should be
created at Government expense.
2.
I have the honour to
state in reply that in 1878 the construction of a new Lunatic Asylum
piece of
ommenced on a
was comm
ground in front of the Civil Hospital, which had been prepared in 1874, at a cost of #20,000, as a site for Civil Hospital. The work was however
anew
stopped
مد
stopped
after being commenced and the Crontractor paid for the work done (#803. 19). Since then nothing
more has been done in
no
consequence of approval having yet been given
of any one of the different sitos
General
proposed by the Surveyor in 1880, instead of the one which had been
originally abandoned.
3.
determined
on
and afterwards
As to the necessity of
having a Government Lunatis Asylum, I have the honour to submit for. Your Lordship's consideration extract from a report from the Colonial Surgeon in which he states that no other Lunaties than Chinese are
admitted
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