sickness, would point out this as a powerful means for the preservation of health—and the call that there is,
for
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lime, in
Government losing providing suitable accommodation
for
among
those public servants, who must be dependant upon them for quarters. Have, to the report of the cases of sickness, added those
the wives and families of the public men, for though these may not be usually included in official returns, I respectfully express the opinion, which I trust Your Excellency will—agree,
in
that, it is imperative upon Government to find both proper accommodation, and medical attendance, to the families of all such class of public servants as the Police;—for themselves to do so in this place
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is impossible, and it is generally believed, that, without such accommodation, men could not be found willing to serve in such situations.
The opinion which I have—expressed, relative to the necessity of Government finding medical attendance upon the families of the Policemen, applies of course to the men themselves, and equally to many public servants,
of the same class, in the employment of the Chief Magistrate's Office—the Harbor Master and marine Magistrates
of the
Office—the Chinese Secretary's, and the Land Office, who have it not in their power to pay for Medical attendance, and who in the long and severe illnesses, to which they are subject in this climate, would soon fall upon Government, as distressed British Subjects.