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being 18,438 males, and 4,676 females. The proportion of the latter has increased as the feeling of security has induced the Chinese settlers to bring families, and we hope to observe the growth of this favorable indication.
There seems to prevail among the Chinese population a perfect confidence in the Government, and since the establishment of an efficient Police, and the severe examples which have been made of some atrocious criminals, security of person and property have been established, in lieu of the robbery and plunder which existed less than two years ago.
The most gratifying subject of the present Report is the successful vindication of this Colony from those charges of unhealthiness, which accidental circumstances (some of them inseparably connected with its first occupation) swelled into a species of panic about the time I quitted England, and led many persons to imagine that a residence in the place was a desperate undertaking. Some unprincipled attempts were made, (even after the truth was known), to augment this panic, by the most elaborate misrepresentations, and a great deal of nonsense about decayed granite, &c.; but the best answer to the whole is the remarkable immunity from disease which followed immediately upon the completion of fitting dwellings, efficient drainage, and other improvements.
The delightful winter which prevails here, will, I have no doubt, make Hong-kong a place of resort to invalids from India.
The Colonial Surgeon's very complete
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