10
162
as
compared with the by no means low rate of the Chinese
(28.90 per mille); so that the ill-repute of the Colony for
unhealthiness which was acquired in its early days, and which subsequently. became and remained for long time undeserved, will very quickly be regained.
Although this
а
7.
excessive mortality
doubt in some
to other
is
no
degree due
insanitary
conditions
which
which will doubtless be
improved by the New Health -Ordinance, I think it scarcely
open to question that the principal
cause is the want
of space above indicated; and on this account I feel impelled by a very grave responsibility
to make the most strenuous.
efforts to supply this want by all practicable
meand.
Of all the measures
8.
which
be
may
expected
to
in
respect.
afford immediate relief