The most gratifying subject of the Climate" present Report is the successful vindication of this Colony from those charges of unhealthings, which accidental circumstances (some of them inseparably connected with its first occupation) swelled into a species of panic. about the time I quitted England, and led
many persons to imagine that a residence was a desperate undertaking.
in
the place was
Some unprincipled attempts were made,
known) to augment. this panic by the most elaborate, minipresentations, × and a great deal of nonsense about decayed. granite","&e ; but the best answer to the
(even after the truth, evas
whole is the remarkable immunity from disease which followed immediately upon the completion of fitting dwellings, efficient drainage, and other improvements . The delightful winter which prevails here will, I have no doubt, make Honghong & place of
a
4 Oheit m
Bunting
Races of Wenship.
226
of resort to invalids from India.
The Colonial Surgeon's very complete
Report at Pages 127-130 of the Blue Book will be found amply to corroborate the above statement, and to prove that this Colony much more healthy than many others of Her Majesty's inter-tropical possessions.
Even in the
an
case
of the Froops (by,
تھا
no means
: infallible test of dimate), the mortality
was reduced to nearly a half during the last year, before their present excellent Barracks
completed ; and now that the soldiers have been housed in them, Sentertain no doubt
were
(
of the marked and
1 favorable result. Soon after my arrival in the Colony in 1844, I represented that while the Romanists and Dissenters were already provided, with respectable places of worship, the,
of the Established Church met in a species of shed ; but however anxious to commence
the