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and the other Naval and Military establishments are placed. It is, therefore, much more necessary for the health of the Naval and Military portion of the community than for that of the Civil. It has been estimated that every soldier who dies at Hong Kong has cost the British taxpayer not less than two hundred pounds. (£200). Consequently, it is evident that any moderate sum expended in carrying out M. Chadwick's sanitary arrangements would soon be recouped.
5. I trust that Your Lordship will cause this question - which is of great and pressing importance on Imperial as well as Colonial grounds - to be again recommended to the early and favourable consideration of the Admiralty and of the War Office. It is presumed that, (as was remarked before *), those Departments will not withdraw the general consent.
Despatch n:201 of 1883, para: 8 and 12.
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