by sickness as the dwellers on shore, that the Medical Officers of Her Majesty's Navy have chosen a moderately elevated position for the Naval Hospital and that the Colonial Surgeon (Doctor Anderson, whose experience is in this particular case perhaps greater than that of any other person in China) likewise coincides in this view - His Excellency is forced to believe that the question
of considerable uncertainty and in acceding to the Honorable the Major General's application - which he begs to assure him he does with perfect readiness - he merely desires to place
is one.
record that he does not concur in the theories that have
been laid down either as to the
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peculiar advantages of one situation
over
another - judging from past
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or as to the peculiar insalubrity of this Island over any other part of the Coast of China.
The Land Officer will be instructed to place himself in communication with Major Aldrick with the object of marking off the new line of road and advantage may
be taken at the same time to settle the
direction of the Main Sewer with its
fall, and also to decide on the arrangement of the boundary retaining walls of the Contorment.
(Signed) Richard Woosnam.
I am desired to return the Enclosures to letter and to beg
your