CO129-430 - Others & Individuals - 1915 — Page 27

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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There are thousands among the MIDDLE Classes who, having formerly lived in comfort and respectability, have been reduced by incurable disease to the most are altogether deprived of the means of procuring distressing poverty, and who medical aid and those necessaries which their suffering condition demands. cases, when known, plead more eloquently in their behalf than any laboured address, and constitute of themselves the most touching appeal to our benevolence. Without hope-often without the power of performing the most ordinary offices for themselves- amidst days of wretchedness and nights of agonising pain, these sad sufferers are in truth a burden to their friends, who frequently are almost as helpless and poor as themselves.

The Home is intended for those who, having once been in a position of comfort, are now in necessitous circumstances and so far incapacitated by incurable disease as to be unable to assist themselves, and are either bedridden or greatly dependent on others in the various offices of life.

For these the Institution provides the best medical attendance, good nursing, and all the comforts of a Home for Life.

Annuities of £20 are conferred upon such as

are incurable, but not wholly

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