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unhealthy, and the various sanitary improvements which have from time to time been introduced in them, have failed to effect any appreciable benefit to the health mainly of the Troops. It was if the on this account that Major General Sir. van Straubenzee recommended the acquisition of a Sanitarium.
Sir George Lewis considers therefore that in dealing with this land the health of the Troops must be regarded as of primary importance; and with every desire to meet the wishes of the Governor, he has come to the conclusion that the only conceivable disposition of the Kowloon Peninsula, as being well adapted for a Sanitarium, is to remove the Quarters of