Council's letter of the 2ist March, intimates that all the members of the Consular Body, with the exception of the Portuguese representative, recept the arrangements proposed for hospital accommodation and burial of foreign pau: pers. The Portuguese Consul has roferred the matter to his government for instructions, Council Room, Shanghai, 21st March, 1905.
uring the past year, the tention has frequently been necessity for some definite understanding and procedure in regard to hospital accommodation of foreign paupers in the Settlement, as also to' defraying the cost of burial of such paupers deceased. In recent years, the number of foreigners of all nationalities without visible means of subsistence has steadily increased, and cases have occurred where the Consulates concerned have declined responsibility for the
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