Hongkong.
No. 15215
(Subject.)
DESPATCH.
No. 163.
Date. 24 July
Last previous Paper.
GN Y2122-587, 12859/44 for 83, 11034/84
Col Surgeon's Report for 1882. Sends with remarks on Sanitation and Opium Smoking.
(Minutes.)
Mr. Meade
Three features regularly recur in the Reports of Dr Ayres:
(1) complaints of the bad health of the Police;
(2) do. of the sanitary condition of the housing.
(3) arguments as to the innocuousness of opium smoking.
(1) The Surgeon again gives his opinion that "the increased hours of duty have something considerable to answer for," more especially as the increased ill health of the Force is pretty equally distributed in the different portions of the Force". But in parag. 1 of 1. Enc. to 10465, it is stated that the Europeans had had no extra duty imposed on them". It is also there said that the night duties of the Sikhs...
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