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In the wold season there are a lot of healthy agues, cont" fever, Dyarrhea, Fulmonary complaints. Dropsy, Theuniatsun and various other diseased arising from general debility of the system and the poisonous atmosphere. On the 25 August 184s the Surveyor General of the Colony reported to Government that the number of interments has been so great (in the Protestant Grave Yard) that the enclosure is almost quite full; & the hill behind it is so steep that it is impossible to dig into it; therefore it will be necessary to provide another place.
The Surveyor General stated it would be a difficult thing to select another grave yard on account of the rocky and uneven native of the ground.
Let it not be said that the dreadful mortality and sickness of Hong Kong is the result of the slowness of the Colony settlements suffer and that all young proportionately. The assertion is made: that various new Colonies, even in the Tropics have not been particularly unhealthy when first Colonized.
When the West India islands were first settled, they were perfectly healthy as is proved by the large European population that resorted thither and remained there for many years, many settled, married. Calcutta, and Bombay are reported to have been formerly much healthier than they are at present.
The Australian Colonies were perfectly healthy when founded, and also the Mauritius, and St Helena. I cannot name a single colony that was originally unhealthy, and subsequently became salubrious.
Soldiers, Sailors and Civilians; Europeans and Natives; Women as well as men, residing in every part of Hong Kong have...
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