stathing and outhouses connected with such buildings; the cultivation of Garden and the drainage, and the large number
of Chinese servants and others usually collected about such buildings, - all these
circumstances would tend to render
and in time
the district insanitary, might prove to be hardly less objectionable than the cession of the ground for
Cultivation alone.
8. In conclusion, I would remark
that the probable effect of the cession
in question, if the land were used for the purpose alluded to, would prove to be unfavourable to the health of the Troops generally.
I have &c., &c.,
J. Moorhead Major, Acting Surgeon General, Principal Medical Officer
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Quarter Master General's Office,
Hongkong, 27th June,
1868.
I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter No. 299 of the 28th Instant, respecting the proposed New Land, and the
ground South of it which the War Department is about to cede to the Colony of Hongkong.
In your former
Communication
you
intimated
on the 8th Instant that His Excellency the Governor
would be
glad to know if Major
General Brunker had
any
objections
The Hon. J. Gardiner Austin, Colonial Secretary