An Inquisition taken at Chefoo at.the (China Inland fon School before Herbert Francis Brady,' His -Majesty's Consul acting: as Coroner, in accordance. with the 53rd section of the China.and Japan Order in Council 1865, upon view of the body of Hugh Gray-Owen then and. there lying dead, upon the oaths of John Ryrie Greaves, Ernest Harry Douglas Derrick and Gardiner Christopher Fredes. rick Russell (Jurors), the several persons. whose names are hereunder written, good. and lawful men of Chefoo aforesaid, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire on the part of our Lord \the King when, where, how and by what. means the said Hugh Gray-Owen came to his death (which said Inquisition was then and there duly adjourned until the 19th of July at H.M.'s Cmsulate. Chefoo, and Javain until the 2tst of July, and again until the 22nd of July, and the said Inquisition being now further held), the said Jurors do upon their oaths say that the said Hugh Gray-Owen died- of cholera at the C. I. Mission School, Chefoo, on the 8th day of July, 1902; and judging by the evidence which has been submitted to us,. we are strongly of opinion that the deaths of thy other twelve boys of the school who died between the 6th and 10th of July.- were also due toa similar cause. We are unable to form any. positive opinion as to how the disease was contracted, or conveyed into the school, but in view lof the fact that all the deaths and the cases of illness presented imilar characteristics, and occurred at the two tables (situated at one side of the dining hall) where tainted chicken pies were known to have been served (with the exception of that of the lad Momsen who partook of a second helping supposed to have come from the tainted pies) we are
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