The somewhat gruesome letter appearing in- our correspondence columns seems rather to call for a remedy for general practice than for an explanation regarding a particular ease. Our correspondent, perhaps for the first time during hig residence here, saw an unpleasfant sight, but it ig one that very frequently occurs. The difficulty is that the S. M. Police have no powers of burial and they act frierly in accord with standing orders, but probably there is not one of them who does not think something different could and should be done. If a foreigner or a Chinese of the: better class should die in the, street, the disposal of the body' offers no difficulties, but it is different with a beggar or coolie who possibly has no home and no re-Iatives who can.-be communicated with immediately. In the existing
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