have fallen victim to the Climate and
at all seasons of the year.
An Extensive study of the subject
and no inconsiderable experience in
different climates induces me to concur in the opinion of Dr. Thompson. the surgeon of the Medical Department.
of Hong Kong
that the island
never will be healthy.
Its Geological
the town, and
of hills "poisonous
towards the
sea.
-; thus generating a fruitful
cup of disease.
oft.
We shall have to consider in
subsequent part of this Report, whether
the objects sought, or to be obtained, by the possession of Hong Kong are worth
the dreadful sacrifice of life, which the maintenance of the present
establishment entails.
Character, and the ventilation
render it a hot bed of disease
which
may
be
mitigated
one Year
and another but which will
ever and anon recur with increased
violence.
No drainage
can obviate this
destructive virus; independent of
new roads, or buildings,
every year
the paving will...
of
large portions
of the Hills, washing the purifying
substance down the deep ravines
towards