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space in the hulk and in
the small-pox wards the Government Civil
Hospital. In this case,
matsheds would be
of
erected within the hospital as I am given to
grounds
understand has been
done
on a
former occasion.
It is proposed to
moor the hulk in British
waters to the North of Stonecutters Island (and not in the present
Quarantine ground), where she will be best protected from typhoons.
6.
Stonecutters Island
is now not available for matsheds, as the whole of the Island with the
exception of the eastern extremity where the Government Gunpowder
Depôt is located, is now
claimed as a
Military
Reserve; and it was
the objections raised