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every respect. There is large und swamp in the vicinity which I have no doubt is the cause of the new sickness in the village. There has been, however I understand, improvement in the health of the place within the last year or two.
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Whitfield Police Station at Causeway Bay. These quarters are adequate to and healthy and give every satisfaction to the Police Authorities. In order, however, to maintain this state of things it will be necessary to provide by proper regulations against the serious nuisance that threatens in the adjoining harbour of refuge at Causeway Bay, where the Government have recently built a breakwater. Under the lee of this breakwater, a permanent floating village has gradually grown up and established itself, and the boat people, by the practice of throwing refuse overboard, are gradually clothing the sea bed, which is left bare in places during low water.