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are economical, at last, if they be well done at first, Every public institution constructed, with a view to the
• immediate saving of money, has been, and, till. - continue to be productive - of ulterior expense. I am - sony to classify, the Jail and. Police stations under- the failures alluded to.
The
The climate of this Colony is, with such precautions as people may avail. theinselves of, or the government afford, one of the most salubrious in the Cast.. Improvements are get- required. bold and efficient systems of draining which has beew commenced, must yet be extended; and. especially in the western part of the Town, where the Chinese, whose habits are most uncleanly, principally reside.
It is a well known principle in
physiology, that there
are an intimate relation and
· dependence pubsisting between animal, and vegetable
risperation. It
there
may be stated, as a
a general rule,
that where is a relative sufficiency of animal and vegetable life, the products of the respiration
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of the former are consumed and appropriated by the latter, and vice versa. By this beautiful relation
kept in a perpetual state
of influences, the air is
of purity; when either remarkably, preponderates, the air becomes loaded with poisonous gates. I would
therefore, presume to suggest, that the practice of planting rows of trees along the sides
of the roads already commenced in Victoria, has been most insufficiently carried out, and that the health and comfort of the community will be greatly promoted by more attention to this point.
Signed 4. William Morrison, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
of England, to, to
Colonial Surgeont
Febry. 26, 1848.
Victoria, Hongkong)
(Fuclopy).
Macie
Colonial Secretary.