There is thorough provision--as far as the law can provide--for the
Coolies in case of sickness. No estate is allowed to employ
indentured Coolies, which has not a duly 'certified' hospital,
capable of holding one-tenth at least of the Coolies on the estate,
with an allowance of 800 cubic feet to each person; and these
hospitals are under the care of district medical visitors, appointed
by the Governor, and under the inspection (as are the labour-books,
indeed every document and arrangement connected with the Coolies) of
the Agent-General of Immigrants or his deputies. One of these
officers, the Inspector, is always on the move, and daily visits,
without warning, one or more estates, reporting every week to the
Agent-General. The Governor may at any time, without assigning any
cause, cancel the indenture of any immigrant, or remove any part or
the whole of the indentured immigrant labourers from any estate; and
this has been done ere now.

I know but too well that, whether in Europe or in the Indies, no
mere laws, however wisely devised, will fully protect the employed
from the employer; or, again, the employer from the employed. What
is needed is a moral bond between them; a bond above, or rather
beneath, that of mere wages, however fairly paid, for work, however
fairly done. The patriarchal system had such a bond; so had the
feudal: but they are both dead and gone, having done, I presume,
all that it was in them to do, and done it, like all human
institutions, not over well. And meanwhile, that nobler bond, after
which Socialists so-called have sought, and after which I trust they
will go on seeking still--a bond which shall combine all that was
best in patriarchism and feudalism, with that freedom of the
employed which those forms of society failed to give--has not been