and transports in the Harbour were proportionably, as severely visited 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 (Dr Anderson, whose experience is in this particular case perhaps greater than
other person in China)
that of any
likewise concides in this view - His
Excellency is forced to believe that the
question
is
one
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 on record that he does not
to
· Concur in the theories that have been laid down either as to the peculiar
advantages
over
any
over
706
other part of
advantages of one situation another judging from past experience -, or at to the peculiar insalubrity of this Island the Coast of China.
The Land Officer will be instructed to place himself in communication with Major Aldrich with the object of marking off the line of Road - and advantage
New
may
be taken at the same time
to settle the direction of the main sewer with its fall and also to decide
arrangement of the boundary retaining walls of the Cantonment. I have be
the
BS.
(Signed) Richard Hoosnam.
I am desired to return the Enclosures to your
letter and to beg
that