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I am sorry that our views on this matter appear to be so divergent as to render a joint report impracticable, but I think that the Board will be able to gather from our separate memoranda sufficient material to enable them to send up to the Tung Wa Hospital Committee a memorandum of desirable improvements, as suggested by Mr. EDE on the circulating cover.

FRANCIS W. CLARK,

Medical Officer of Health.

20th January, 1896.

Appendix XIII.

Νο. 858.

SIR,

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, HONGKONG, 5th June, 1896.

I am directed to request that you will be so good as to furnish me, if possible, with a detailed statement of the visits paid by you to the Tang Wa Hospital under section 14 of Ordinance 3 of 1870, since you assumed the duties of Colonial Surgeon in this (See page Colony, and a reference to any reports you may have written on the Hospital.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient Servant,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.

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Dr. P. B. C. AYRES, C.M.G.,

$C.,

fc.,

&c.

No. 11+

SIR,

GOVERNMENT CIVIL HOSPITAL, HONGKONG, 9th June, 1896.

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter No. 858 dated June 5th, and in reply to state that soon after my arrival in the Colony in 1873, I inspected the Tung Wa Hospital and in an interview with the Colonial Secretary concerning this institution, I was referred to the Registrar General for instructions. Practically these instructions were that I was to visit the Hospital occasionally, see that it was kept clean and in good order and that the patients were properly treated according to the Chinese custom, ¿e., that they had enough food and drink and were properly clothed and kept clean; that the medical or surgical treatment I was not to interfere with.

Again on a visit to this institution in attendance on His Excellency Sir JOHN POPE HENNESSY, I pointed out to him many things that, in my opinion, needed reform, but was told by him that they could not be interfered with, that they were all in accordance with Chinese custom. My habit was, up to May, 1894, when the plague began, to visit the Hospital at least once a month, but as a rule my visits were much oftener especially when there was much small-pox or typhoid about or other diseases requiring extra vigilance. The Chinese petition of LEUNG ON and others forwarded to xxxv and the Secretary of State by Sir RICHARD GRAVES MACDONNELL in his despatch of the 18th August, 1869, and recommended for sanction by him, fully shows the limit of my xxx

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