Philippine magazine. [Vol. 27, no. 1]

November, 1930

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entitled: "1824.O-ficio del 4 de Agosto de 1821 del
Excmo. Sor. Marques de Hastings, Gobernador y
Capitan General de los Establecimientos Britanicos
en la India, acompanando dos tratados del metodo
curativo que debe adoptarse para los atacados de
c6lera").
Finally it should be borne in mind that not until the
discovery by Koch of the cholera germ in 1888, was the
etiology of cholera divested of mystery, and consequently
the ideas, preoccupations, practices, and usages at the
beginning of last century ought not to appear strange to us;
on the contrary, those people who lived and suffered in our
ancestors' time deserve not only, to a certain extent, our
commiseration, but our respect.
NOTE:-Lord Hastings greatly extended the territories of the East India Company and effectively established the supremacy of British power in India. He is
also noted for his efforts at introducing education among the natives and encouraging the freedom of the press. In 1819 he obtained the cession by purchase of the
island of Singapore. In finance his administration was very successful, as, in spite
of the wars, he showed an annual surplus of two million sterling. His last years
of office were embittered by the discussion on the affairs of the banking-house of
W. Palmer and Company. Annoyed by the insinuations made against him, he
tendered his resignation in 1821 (the year he wrote the letters to the GovernorGeneral of the Philippines), though he did not leave India till the first day of 1823.
He was much exhausted by his nine years of labor in India, and his fortune was
gone. In 1824 he received the comparatively small post of governor of Malta.
He died on November 28, 1826, leaving a request that his right hand should be cut
off and preserved till the death of the marchioness of Hastings, and then be interred
in her coffin. He was born on December 9, 1754.-Encyclopedia Britannica.

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