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my crew: a sailor with a bad foot was treated for shyphilis, which in
reality did not exist. Another sailor had his jaw so broken that when I
took him to a Dentist, the latter was astounded and agitated.
13.
Of this I have documental data.
At the very commencement of our sojourn in Kowloon,
the sick sailors were taken by us to Victoria Ecspital. But there they
fared very badly, as the English Soldiers indulged themselves in every
sort of laughter and jeering at the sailors, which forced us to send the
men of the crew to the Civil Hospital, so as to avoid disagreeableness
and to defend our men from jeers.
14.
In consequence of the above cited & cases of such
careless treatment of the sick sailors by the Military Doctors, 1 invited
Dr. Rennie for which reason also l do not now make use of the Civil
Hospital, as there is no need of it.
15.
From the result of the Military Doctor's examination,
1 perceive they are extremely dissatisfied at my refusal of their services
and that their personal bearing as regards myself has been transferred to
the sailors, at which I am to the highest degree astonished and agitated,
that innocent people should suffer for personal feelings.
16.
At my request at the Military Hospital at Kowloon to
give me an extract of the treatment of the man sick in the foot but who
bad been treated for shyphilis, Doctor A. A. Gibbs refused, while not
denying the fact.
(Sq.) Alexander Skrydloff,
True Translation.
1st. Sub-Lieutenant,
Imperial Russian Navy.
:(Sd.) J. J. O'B Sexton,
Major,
Commandant Bussian Camp.
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