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Crowded together in close dirty and unventilated rooms, disease spreads with virulence and malignity.
I shall conclude these few remarks by a Statement of Alertness - "Aerial movements are to man what the constant gliding part of a clear river stream is to fishes which inhabit it, and as certainly we should destroy the trout of a Stream by confining them in a small portion of watery element until it became a dirty puddle, so should we injure human beings when we too closely confine around them a portion of the aerial element."
(Signed) J. Carroll Dempster, M.D., Colonial Surgeon.
(True Copy)
Colonial Secretary.
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Schedule of Despatches sent by the Governor to the Secretary of State for the Colonies by the Mail Steamer "Ganges",
No. | Date of Desp. | Subject of Despatch | Remarks
69 May, 1855 Relative to Prostitution in the Colony and its attendant evils. 70 Reporting that Mr Franz Knoop has been Gazetted Consul for Hongkong for the King of Hanover. 71 Reporting Sir John Bowring's return to the Colony. 72 20th May Reporting appointment of Lieutenant Colonel Graham as Member of the Executive Council. 74 45 Reporting liberation of 16 Prisoners on the Queen's Birthday Acknowledging receipt of Despatches from No.1 of 17 March, to No. 3 of 20th April; and Circulars of 6th, 7th and 8th March, 1855. 31 Relative to expected vacancy in the Office of Registrar of the Supreme Court, and recommending Mr. Bay's Successor 76 Forwarding an address to Her Majesty on the subject of the War with Russia.Page 45
AUG. 30th via Southampton, on the 10th Sept. 1855
Duplicates 1835.
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