from the governor to Sir R. Meade, dispatch
governor from him particulars about the drains at the filogue.
originated at
The Plague, he tells me, originated at Bonham Strand West (please look at the plan of Victoria Hongkong) being brought in in February last by Chinese processionists who came in from Canton provinces - He did not explain how it is that it did not break out till May. The centre of the epidemic however was further inland in the Tai Ping Shan district, as marked in red, which is densely populated with Chinese.
The main sewers of Victoria are being reconstructed, at great cost, by the Public Works department. "That department has control over Crown property and public roads, but not private houses, with which the Sanitary Board alone is competent by law to deal.
This Tai Ping Shan district wants draining; its houses ought to have been done; there are private lanes and alleys which are treated as backyards -
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