CO129-202 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1882 [7-9] — Page 104

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admitted into the Jung Wa Hospital, and that the Government has had to provide for 6 Lunaties in the year 1879-9 in 1880 and 10 in 1881. The

only

accommodation at the present

dilapidated

moment is in a

building purchased for a new Central School, from which the patients have to be removed the moment there is any sign of a typhoon approaching, as it

safe.

In one

on the site that was

would not then be sense the Lunatie

Lunatic Asylum may be

are

only detained

considered a temporary institution since the patients until removed by their friends

san be found to convey them to

ship

their

or a

their native place. It will be observed that some Chinese of a better class have been received into the Government

institution.

4.

will

agree

I think Your Lordship

with me that under the

circumstances stated by the Colonial Surgeon the construction of a Government Lunatic Asylum is not only necessary but has been urgently required for

some years past. Unless it is undertaken soon Government may

be

compelled to revert to the former objectionable system of detaining the Lunatics in the Gaol. Some drawings

·were

- prepared in 1880 for a building the estimated cost of which is stated by

The