20
add 59 sick after a long engage.
act 55
ken out
already moving
There have
deaths in the
autorouts at the West end of Victoria
and inn Inne 1844. there
160 new
fish and the list was daily increasing :: Rowe 15th. April to 2nd July 1841 there
• died at Hong Kong out of the 52. Europe.
Soldiers.
and,
and 49. Native
General D'Aguilar says that
the maintenance of a Garrison at
Hong Kong
would cost the Crown
£96,000 every
three years. Estimating
each soldier at having cost Government
£108 this would be severe economical.
Loft,
and worthy of the
consideration
of those who would not reflect
the humanity of the subject. To keep
effective firelocks in strong Hong
it is necessary
to maintain 1,000 men.
Hongkong
59
Hong thing is not loss fatal to the Chinese of whom there are on our average about 900 sick and dying monthly
D: Gutzlaff says of one hundred coolies with whom I was acquainted there died between 20th May
and 15th June 14 men, whilst 30 left the place deceased. I understand that the whole of these
100
from the East coast were
obliged to leave the Colony from sickness : There is no extensive population
or large town
on the main
land of China adjacent to Hong Kong
Gutzlaff says many Chinese have fatal Visitions in Hong Kong from Malignant fever which not
only deranged the whole system but hastening the death of the patient" "He adds there exists amongst the Doctors not one dissentient voice about the fatal tendency of diseases contracted here
Nor is it during only one period
of the year.