clearest
doubt as to the improbability of the local Government undertaking a scheme of such magnitude without the assistance and cooperation of the Imperial Government, that the Canal
question referred to.
4. I
agree
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to the limitations
should, I think, be falling
rendering water access
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is
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and)
difficult to the Military and
Naval Authorities, a process which
likely also to be greatly accelerated by the completion of the partial scheme of reconstruction decided upon, and to this will be added the constantly increasing
risk
of malarial outbreaks consequent upon the accumulation
of mud banks in
in the proximity
at the
same time I
feel it my
duty, if I were not again to impress upon Your Lordship the almost certain necessity that will
before long
arise
for
The larger
work of reconstruction to be taken in hand. Year by year the land is being surrounded by
of a crowded neighborhood like that of the Military Dockyard.
The letter from the Sanitary
S
General, dated 21 December 1876,
a
copy of which is enclosed: makes especial reference to
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