4.
5.
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Commanding Royal Engineer at both Moody on the subject together with the s
00 servations
g
the Deputy Suspector
General of Hospitals Dr Home thercove
After
a
careful perusal of the correspondence
the question and bring myself well --
acquainted with the locality from recent -- inspection and from having been encamped
there in the
the
your
1860 when in command
of the 44th Regiment, Jam of opinou that the site best, adapted for Barracks and a Military Hospital is that recommended by St. Coll Maner late Commanding Royal Engineer and the Medical & r Committee of which Doctors Muir, -- Cum & Rutherford
werb
members.
I do not feel myself called upon to
consider the requirements of the Colony
of Houghoug
arr
the Kowloon
Pensula but merely to give my
as to the best site for
opinion as
Barracks
and Hospital . The view. I take being that the bealth of the Troops in the pre- importance and that the site of their Barracks and Hospital should have the preference
other claim.
over
every
The site recommended by St. Ca Manmand the Mridical Committer has
orve
oir
the advantage of being the most clevated practicable
the Penisula, is full open to the South West Monsoon and
though to Sceward of Hongkong, when the South and South East Winds blow, it is at such a distance from the Island