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necessitate the removal of the temporary Plague Hospitals at Kennedy Town, for, I venture to say that there is no other site in the Colony so isolated or in every way so convenient for the treatment of this terrible disease.
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The need of the Colony is to have a road round the Island as soon as possible - this will be effected by beginning simultaneously from Shaukiwan and from Aberdeen, and sanitary reasons favour an immediate beginning for the scheme includes filling in the Inlet between Aberdeen and Little Hongkong, to which the Medical Men ascribe the Malaria that has made this neighbourhood and that of Magazine Gap so unhealthy. These sections finished and easier gradients secured by a slight deviation of the present Pokfulam Road, the Jubilee Road will be complete.
After that, if found desirable it will be time enough to undertake the heavy expense of a needless carriage way round Mount Davis.
I have &c.
(Sd.) W. Black,
Major-General.