Reference: C.O./133
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By the means by which adopted climates are disarmed of their hurtful effects. It is curious to observe how nicely our wants and refinements are imperceptibly ruled by chemical and physiological laws. By the productions of social requirements the atmospherical constituents are altered, and the land either ceases to eliminate its miasmata, or they are neutralized by its nutritive products. The island of Hongkong affords no end of the direct and remoter benefits of agriculture; get there seems every reason to believe that the great advancement in house-building, draining, planting, and road-making, which has been made within ten years, has in a great degree promoted the sanatory improvement which the vital statistics of the last two years indicate.
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Notwithstanding that great improvements have been made, not less by the public spirit and enterprise of the residents than by Government itself, some circumstances appear to have been overlooked or improperly provided for. The evil of a scarcity of water in the midst of abundance still continues in this Colony. There are many beautiful streams above its level which might easily be diverted into the most attainable positions of the two extremities and centre of the town.
The drains would be constantly washed by the waste of central fountains thus obtained, and the facilities of obtaining water they would afford, without labor and expense, would induce more cleanliness in the habits of the people. The accumulation of foul sediment in the open drains abutting on the closely congregated houses in the Tai-ping shan shows how sparingly water is used.
The central market also, whence the supplies of the European come, remains without any essential improvement. It is crowded to excess; it is ill-ventilated, ill-drained, seldom cleaned and most inconvenient.
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Reference
C.O./133
COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
9ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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the means
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by which adopted climates are dicarmed of their hurtful effects. It is curious
to observe how nicely
are.
our wants and refinements
tuents are altered, and the land either ceases
to eliminate it's miasmata, or
they
are news
tralized by its nutritive products. The island
of Hongkong affords
nond
of the direct and
remoter benefits of agriculture, get there
Leems
every
Realots
to believe that the
advancement in house-building, draining),
planting,
and road-making, which has been
made within ten.
e years,
has in
a great degree promoted the sanatory improvement which the vital statistics of the last two years indicate. Notwithstanding that great improve, ments have been made, not less by the public spirit and enterprice of the residents than by
Government itself,
the
some circumstances
163.
78
appear to have been overlooked or improperly provided for. The coil of a scarcity of water
in
the midst of abundance still continues in this Colony.
Colony. There
are
many beautiful streams above it's level which might easily be diverted into the most attainable positions of t
the two extremities and centre of the town. The
drains would be constantly wacked by the waste of central fountains thus obtained, and the facilities of obtaining water they
would
afford, without labor and expense, would
induce more cleanliness in the habits of the
器
people.
accumulation of foul sediment
in the open drains abutting on the closely congregated houses in the Tai-ping shan, shows how sparingly water is used.
The central market also, whence the supplies of the European come, remains with.
out
any
essential improvement. It is crocoded to excess ;_ it is ill-ventilated, ill-drained,
seldom cleaned and most inconvenient
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