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account of the Colonial.
Surgeon's objections on Danitary grounds to the Causeway Bay
site, and that he still considered the Bonham Road
site objectionable.
The Causeway Bay, he added, possessed, in his
opinion, many advantages.
The Committee admitted
that there were sua
suany
to
disadvantages attaching the Bonham Road site owing to its being situated
ona
hill
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hill slope which would
nexessitate considerable
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expenditure for levelling and preparing the site.
The Gaol blocks and
yards would have to be- formed in terraces at different levels and although below the line of fire, the
site lies a short distance.
below the Victoria Battery.
To these objections may
be added a further
one,
that
the site is situated in one