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before
"Men of the Colony, that; when the
necessary
simprovements have been made, the situation
" would be well suited for the permanent location " of Troops in proper barracks:
The foregoing prediction
was written
the completion and occupation of the Sir I. Michel to
Burracks. The accompanying Correspondence which has since tatten place will show that
・the correctness of it is now actinowledged by the Military Authorities. Sir John
on
Meichel observes that the sicknces in
the huts
Napier's Range " is more "than 100 per cent in excess
of that. "existing in the other hits", which
are
situated in that part of the Peninsula to which I
was anxious that the Meilitary
thrived confine themselves; and the
dir Hercules Robins
14 June 1861.
Sir Hercules fisting to dis I. Abichek.
17th Gerne 1861.
Sir I. Michit to
Sir Hercules Nobriesm gant June, 18615 Sir I. Michel ht
Air Hercules Kobina 22nd November 18t Sir Henerales Probing to dis I. Miciuly
26th Novemba 1861
Sin I. Michel
Sis Hercules hobid 22nd November
Enclosed.
Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals -
inly Inapredor points out, as a reason
for
General Currie 16th June 1861
Indraed.
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the unhealthiness
of Napier's Range, that " in the vicinity
" of these huts there is a
"graving
which is
good deal of paddy.
very objectionable
on
"Sanitary grounds, and also that
" immediately in front of the huts in question
" is a piece of garden Cultivation and Several "Cess-pools of liquid manivre used in the
"Cultivation of Vegetabies, emitting
a most
"offensive odour, and which is wafted by the "Southerly breezes into the Soldiers' huts"
4.
These
wvere
precisely the objections which I ineffectually urged against the ~ occupation of the site months before; and
upon my asking the Deputy Inspector
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