CO129-115 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [9-10]

(Art. of

OFFICE OF SURVEYOR GENERAL

ESTIMATE OF THE EXPENSE NECESSARY TO BE INCURRED

and improvements to same int. Fu

PLAN OR DESCRIPTION.

Fai

Caine Road.

The report of the Commission appointed in March to inquire into the cause of the prevalence of yellow fever in the Colony refers to the District of Taiping Shan as follows.

In Conclusion we beg to observe that there can be no doubt that the sanitary condition of Taipingshan is such as to require the most-active supervision. It is filthy.

Marble Street is filthy in the extreme. The drain is more defective, if indeed it can properly be said that any drainage exists at all; houses, into which rays of the sun can never penetrate, are huddled together back to back. In children of all ages, pigs, poultry, and men, women live together in the same dark, unventilated rooms in apparent misery and filth, and it is not surprising that such a disease as we have been instructed to investigate should be traced to a District of this City, the sanitary condition of which is beyond all question the worst.

1 of Taiping Shan Paving 14,110 ft sup: Clause 13. 3'6" Brain Repairing Steps 3,740 Granite Paving 13,800 ft sup: Repairing Steps 1,700 2 ft drain 380 ft lin: 12 Pipe holes Condition lin: 2129 1693 20 a44 149 60 a$4 540 082. Square Street Granite paving 10,500 ft sup: 2ft drain 3007 lin: Repairing Steps 1,700 13 pipe holes Kaiping Shan Granite Paving 7,000 ft sup: 184 @$1.50 19 30 5404 9,525.50

His Excellency the Governor has subsequently decided to expend a large sum in paving the Streets and altering the drainage with a view to improving the sanitary condition of the District, which is one inhabited largely by Chinese.

Approved,

(signed) / Richard Graves MacDonnell

Governor.

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