Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Hospital in Bombay
1 2019-11-18T17:22:56-05:00 Kate McDonald 306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f 35 4 W.J. Huggins, "Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Hospital in Bombay," Engraving, 1843. plain 2020-09-13T18:16:03-04:00 19.07598, 72.87765 Bombay, Mumbai, India Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JJ_Hospital.jpg. 1843 Public domain. Peter D. Thilly PDT-0014 Kandra Polatis 4decfc04157f6073c75cc53dcab9d25e87c02133This page is referenced by:
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Bombay was the site of auction for Malwa opium bound for China.
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Bombay (Mumbai)
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Jardine, William
Our Opium Market has fluctuated very little since the date of last advices, the 28th ultimo, particularly at Whampoa; while along the Coast prices have been better maintained, but the deliveries have been on a reduced scale. In Macao Malwa fell to 345 dollars per chest, and several hundreds of chests were sent out to Lintin, when the prices, of all kinds, improved a little.
William Jardine in Canton to Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy in Bombay, 13 March 1838.*Bombay (Mumbai) was the site of auction for Malwa opium, the alternative to Bengal (Patna, Benares) opium exported from Calcutta. Pictured above is a hospital built in 1843 by the eminent Parsee trader Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, a close associate of William Jardine and a major figure in the Malwa opium trade. In the quote above we see William Jardine advising Jejeebhoy of the prices and market fluctuations in Malwa opium during early 1838, as tensions were mounting with the Chinese government in Guangzhou.
*Source: China Trade and Empire: Jardine, Matheson & Co. And the Origins of British Rule in Hong Kong 1827-1843, ed. Alain le Pichon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 337.
