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1st. I am therefore of opinion that Victoria is in need of Drainage and Sewerage, of better Paving and Scavengering.
2d. That the Dwellings of the Natives are faulty in construction, being erected apparently with the view of having the greatest number in the smallest possible space, and without any regard to Ventilation and Drainage.
3d. That Disease prevails most where the Dwellings are overcrowded, and where little if any attention is paid to cleanliness, ventilation, and drainage.
4th. That the Inhabitants of Lanes and other crowded Localities, be compelled to whitewash their Dwellings at least twice a year, and to make free use of water upon the pavements and channels every morning.
5th. That the absence of Sanitary measures in Hongkong leads to the develope - ment and dissemination of disease.
It is well known that damp and dirt, that nuisances of all kinds and particularly animal and vegetable matter in a state of decomposition, are circumstances that favor the propagation of disease. Whatever renders the atmosphere impure, impairs the health, and predisposes the body to disease, and where numbers of sick are crowded together in close, dirty, and unventilated rooms, disease spreads with virulence and malignity. I shall conclude these few remarks by a statement of Dr. Arnott: "Aerial movements are to man what the constant gliding past of a clear river stream is to fishes which inhabit it, and as certainly as we should destroy the trout of a stream by confining them in a small portion of the watery element until it become a dirty 'puddle, so should we destroy or injure human beings when we too closely confine "around them a portion of the Aerial element.'
J. CARROLL DEMPSTER, M.D. Colonial Surgeon.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
Wanted a passage to Penang for Thirty four Chiñese Convicts. Sealed Tenders will be received at this Office.
By Order,
W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria,
Hongkong, 26th May, 1855.
In re JOHN BURT.
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deceased.
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WILLIAM DAVIES. YOONG-CHOFYE TOTICE. All claims against the above Estates must be proved before the Official Administrator before the ninth day of December 1855; otherwise they will not be included in the Scheme of Division. All persons in- debted to the said Estates are requested to make pay-
meut to
WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER, Acting Registrar, Official Administrator.
NOTICE.
THE
THE SUPREME COURT will hold a NISI PRIUS SIT- TING on Friday the 15th day of June, instant, at 12 o'clock noon.
By Order of the Court,
WILLIAM HASTINGS ALEXANDER,
Acting Registrar.
ADVERTISEMENT.
THE interest and responsibility of MR. ALEXANDER
cember, and MR.ROBERT FORRESTER THORBURN became a partner on 1st January, 1855.
Canton, 6th March, 1855.
TURNER & Co.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Order of W. H. ALEXANDER Esq. Acting Regis B
trar of the SUPREME COURT of Hongkong. The undersigned will sell by PUBLIC AUCTION, at his Auction Rooms, Queen's Road, on TUESDAY, 12th June, 1855. at 11 o'clock A.M.
Davies, consisting of
The effects belonging to the Estate of the Late William
One Gold Watch by Barraud, one Silver Watch, one Plano Forte by Luff & Co., London, 30 Prints and 2 oil Paintings, Views of India, France, and England, one Sex- tant, 4 English charts, coast of China, Furniture, Ward- robe, Couch, large round Table, card Table, portable Writing Desks, a large Toilet Looking Glass, a portable Liquor Case with 4 decanters and glasses, a Bedstead and bedding, a few Books, Woollen and Linen Wearing Apparel, and a variety of other Articles.
PAYMENT,―iu Mexican Dollars weighed at 7.1.7.
CHARLES MARKWICK, Government Auctioneer.
Hongkong, 8th June, 1855.
Printed and Published by ROBERT STRACHAN, at the Hongkong Register Office, Victoria, Hongkong.