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reclamation of Causeway Bay.
urgent sanitary
that it is sur
measure.
surprising
as an
I added
that this fetid
"swamp or reeking cesspool (as it has
poisons
the
been truly called), which air around it, and renders impossible
the residence of Europeans in its neighbourhood, has not already
produced
2.
a severe
epidemic
I now forward the plan
of the proposed work, with an
the
explanatory Memorandum from the Surveyor-General, (the Honourable
Mr. Price).
Enclosure Printed Memo & Plan
3.
It has been finally estimated
that this important work will cost, not
a somewhat larger
sum, (as was
but only supposed), but
at
first
about thirty thousand
(30,000) dollars, equivalent, at the present rate of Exchange, to about five thousand five hundred pounds, (£5,500), and that its completion will require from twelve to fourteen months. It will be further
perceived that, in addition to its
urgency as a sanitary
measure, this
work will be directly reproductive, for
while the cost is estimated at only
£5,500 the value of the land when
reclaimed
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