7.
General of Hospitals after perusing
his-
letter how he came to overlook such obvious
disqualifications when the site was
selected,
he
first-
med me that neither he
informed.
nor any Military Medical Authority was consulted on the subject. He himself, he
informed
me, was not even aware
intention to
of the
оссиру
the Range until after the completion of some of the Barracks - upon it.
5.
In the discussion which had taken
as to the best site
place some time before
for a permanent Cantonment, Napiers Range had been condemned by a Military
Medical Board as a
permanent occupation by Troops,
place unfit for
even
404
in good Barracks, and with the neighbourhood. drained. In this opinion I do not concur,
the enclosure in but it having been placed
bir Hercules Robinson
4. Duke of Mercasite
on record, it is
2237 of 2014 March 1981. inconceivable, as pointed out by the Surveyor
Geneval at the time, why Napier's Range
of all places in the Peninsula should have been selected in its unimproved state by the Military Authorities as a suitable place. for quartering Troops in Wooden Huls.
6.
These temporary Barracks are now being occupied by Troops for the second ~ Summer. The unhealthiness of them as-
Compared with those situated in other parts of
the
Cause is
peninsula, is Established. The beyond all doubt - And yet no step has
been taken to reme
remedy
it. I
I
formnd the Range,