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by Your Lordship, Colonel (nou retired Major-General) A.H. A. Gordon, has arrived and
assumed the duties of his office
2.
In a despatch written
here (M
soon after I came here
(11:39 of
expril 23, 1883), I reported that I found the brison, and most of the other public institutions in
in Hongkong,
in as
a
generally satisfactory
2 permitted by
condition as is
their confined sites and by the imperfect arrangements antiquated systems of management
which
}
which are rendered, to a large
to the
degree, inevitable, owing want of proper space, and of buildings embodying the results
of modern science and recent ~ experience. I added that the wils resulting from want of sufficient space and ventilation become intensified in this tropical - climate. I further remarked in subsequent despatches, that, with nut Superintendent of practical ~~
a
experience, it would be impossible to introduce here the improved
Prison