fo the Editor of the "NorrH-CHina Daly "News."
Sm—Speaking of microbes, for which the Chapei Waterworks seem to be the general providers, may I ask whether the many petty Chinese Hospitals infesting both Settlements are in the opinion of medical experts a thing to be tolerated, especially when residing in semi-detached houses with people living right and left?
The who caused the licences to be issued must have hardly been acquainted with the Chinese interpretation of the word hygiene. The front of such establishments generally looks decent enough, but has a Health Inspector ever visited *he backyard, where kitchen, servants quarters, deathbeds, mortuaries, dust Ding (the contents of which have run amok) and other receptacles are crowded within a few square yards?
Are the corpses examined by competent Health Officer, or is it the ubiquitous Chinese "District death reporter" who simply reports a death fat number so-and-so, maskee whether the patient died for want of breath or from cholera, As Iam not a medical man, my opinion may count for nothing, but} nevertheless I take the liberty to, exprets it, and that is: that a semidetached house is not the place for a Chinese hospital, whatever those who Imnow better may say. Anybody who wishes to contradict mo, ought first to examine the backyard of such an institution, he will soon alter his views.
Thanking you for space granted, Tam, ete.
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