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(3). There is no rule preventing Asiatics from holding any office, but, as a matter of fact, Asiatics have been employed as Dressers only under the direct supervision of the Colonial Surgeon in charge and of two European or Eurasian Apothecaries which latter hold the qualification of the Madras Medical College.

(4). European methods of treatment are insisted on. No opposition is or, as far as is known, has been experienced to European medical treatment. The patients come for that treatment.

There may

be some who leave

to return to native treatment, but such cases are not common.

4. With reference to paragraphs 3 and 4 of your letter the Principal Civil Medical Officer reports as follows:

"As far as I know, there are no such Chinese Hospitals. There was a

"scheme for one some time ago, but I think it came to nothing. I am "not sure too that a European doctor was not part of this scheme. It "is difficult to answer the last paragraph quite definitely. All our "Chinese patients come voluntarily to the Hospital and the bulk of all our Pauper Hospital patients is Chinese. Some beggars, of course, are picked up by the Police and brought to Hospital, but they are generally quite contented there and abscond rarely. The number of Chinese who "seek admission at the General Hospital, where they have to pay, has "certainly increased of late years."

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Further information regarding the management of this Hospital will be found in the Report on the Civil Hospitals for 1894 already referred to, and in the Report of the Committee for 1894, a copy of which is also forwarded.

I have the honour to be,

Enclosure 4. (See page LXX.)

The Honourable

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY,

HONGKONG.

Sir,

Your obedient Servant,"

J. A. SWETTENHAM,

Colonial Secretary,

Straits Settlements.

(Enclosure 1.)

TAN TOCK SENG'S HOSPITAL.

BYE-LAWS.

The Institution shall be under the care of a Medical Officer, who shall be assisted by a Superintendent, and Apothecary, and Dressers.

Duties of the Medical Officer.

To visit the Hospital and patients at least once every day, and as chief of the staff, to see that the Superintendent, the Apothecary, and the other subordinates connected with the institution do their several duties satisfactorily.

Duties of the Superintendent.

To attend to the clothing, diets, &c., to see that the meals are properly cooked, and served out at stated times; and to look to the general cleanliness of the wards and grounds. When a patient is admitted, the Superintendent will see that he is washed, and shaved (if Chinese), and hospital clothing consisting of a baju, one pair of drawers, a mat, a blanket, and a pillow, three Chinese cups and two chopsticks-is supplied to him, in lieu of his own, which are to be labelled and set aside in the store room, to be returned to him, on his discharge from Hospital.