26.
467
opened to me
the documents
I have carefully perused all
ow
the subzed within my
much and the better I became acquainted
: with the diseases prevalent at Kowloon.\
unhealthy than Honghong) || ||| ..
(of late
move
and the special localities of the scattered
Cantourments in which these are
chiefly vr
generated, the
more
I feel convinced --
that there is of the two localities
submitted for my opinion
now-w
buit one
that
with
question of the soldiers health can
any regard to the paramount ....
for a .
moment be entertained as the position on which the future Barracks ought
to stand.
On the first occupation of the Kowloon Trisula there was with much judgment
chosen for the Encampment of the Troops the elevated ridge running along the Western side the Peninsula fully
of
exposed to the influence of the prevailing
ป
wind during the hot season and ~~~
of the
manding a delightful view -sea and of the harbour lying beneath - This locality from the first proved the most healthy position of the whole of the
Various encampments scattered over the
Peninsula and it has
and it has ever since maintained
the ligh character for salubuty which it then acquired.
On this Colonel than pluces the
Westires
wv
range of the Barracks proposed
by im and no
concession
affords
position which the whole is in point of Sanitary