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the criticisms of the Sung Wa Hospital contained in D. J.A. Lowson's report upon the demic of bubonic plague during 1894, and especially

to his expression of opinion that a "scheme might be devised which

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would satisfy the wishes of the Chinese without sacrificing.

well-being of

the sanitary well-

"the Colony!"

In reply

I beg to in.

form you scheme involves nothing

that D. Lowson's

short

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short of the abolition of the - Lung Wa Hospital and the tablishment of a Government Pauper Hospital, and that I am not prepared to seriously consider such a scheme, which, apart from financial object_ ions, would be very unpopu- Car with the Chinese, until

I

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satisfied that the ad- ministration and sanitary arrangements of the dung Wa Hospital cannot be brought

up to a proper standard.

With