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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONGKONG, 20th. August, 1912.

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Sir,

overnor's Despatch No. 52 of)

9th. February, 1912. ecretary of State's Despatch)

No. 90 of the 6th.April, 1912.

With reference to previous correspondence as

noted in the margin on the subject of

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European and American lunatics, I have the

honour to inform you that I have had

under consideration the question of

making better provision for Chinese lunatics in this Colony.

Hitherto it has been the practice to send to

His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Canton Chinese lunatics

who are not British subjects. These have been handed over to the

Chinese Authorities.

2.

Since the overthrow of the lanchu Government

these lunatics have been sent by the Provisional Government to the

John G. Kerr Refuge for the Insane at Canton, a Missionary

Institution under skilled American management. This institution

became so overcrowded at the end of Ley last owing to influx of lunatics from Hongkong,where owing to the unsettled state of China an unusual number had taken refuge that no more lunatics could be

admitted. An arrangement was therefore proposed to the Authorities

of the Institution whereby the Hongkong Government should make an annual grant of $3,600 per annum to it in consideration of their

receiving Chinese lunatics who had resided for a considerable period in Hongkong. It was suggested by Sir F. Lugard that Chinese

lunatics

HE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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LEWIS HARCOURT, M.P..

&c.,

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