valuable book which relates to
the
Sandtory condition of
this
Island, and more
expecially when
those Remarks seeme
to differ from
• gentleman of such extensive
profissional knowledge and
observation
A
contained in it, and
whole the Cemarks
the
35
ave most
temperate, judicious, and truth- ful - Nevertheless I consider,
that be has substituted the
Minor
the
(f) + Wilson, get from
for sickness
the
the vast imprevements which have
of
Your
late been made by order of Excellency, whereby the mortality have
been
да
really diminished
observation
0.0
to the
and
from
of the Endemic diseases not fully
Dr
coinciding with the Do, I feel
called upon
upon in justice to your - and Coadjutore to
offer the following Remarke - I cannot but
self
admit that at the time the
work
tvad
pouned there.
good grounds for the
tvert
Jamarker
contained.
· Major and mortality..
of
In page 149 he states it to
be liis conviction "that the
exhalations from the deserted dice grunds
the principal
CœuÉ I
of
are
the Endemic diseases.
of Hongkong," while d, from
OLUL
observation,
inclined
to believe that the ferincipal
the natural marsly.
Caves
Swamps, the decaying
avood,
ao
Tice fields -
KAZ
bruch.
the cultivated
This opinion I hope
to be able to substantiate by
the
fottereing