Chap. VII. 



TREATMENT OF PRISONERS. 



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Christ are sown upon it, and, it is hoped, in many, 

 very many instances, they may vegetate and pro- 

 duce their fruits in after years when the patients 

 have returned to their homes. 



The charitable labours of the medical missionary 

 are not confined to the hospital within tlie bounds 

 of the foreign settlement. He has also a dispen- 

 sary in the midst of the crowded city, which he 

 visits on stated days and attends to outdoor pa- 

 tients, many of whom may not be able to come as 

 far as the hospital. Indeed, wherever his labours 

 are required he is to be found ministering to the 

 wants of the sick, and doing all he can to alleviate 

 pain. The following extract from one of Dr. 

 Lockhart's reports will show that the jails are also 

 visited, and give a good illustration of the cold- 

 blooded cruelty of the Chinese government : — 



" In the beginning of the summer, attention was 

 called by some of the natives in the city to the 

 fact that there were a number of men who had 

 been severely wounded in the Che-heen's (or ma- 

 gistrate's) jail ; a visit was immediately paid to 

 the place, when it was ascertained that, in a yard 

 which was one of the departments of the inner 

 prison, about fifty pirates, all Canton and Fokien 

 men, had been confined ; but that on the morning 

 of the day when it was visited they had tried to 

 break out of prison and were very riotous, on 

 account of some additional hardship that the 

 officers intended to inflict on them, and also be- 

 cause some of the party were to be separated from 



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