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being 18,438 males, and 4,676 feniales. The proportion of the latter has.

incr

induced over their

cased as the feeling of security the Chinese settlers to bring families,

and

Shope to observe the growth

of this favorable indication.

There seems to prevail among the

ce in

-Chinese population a perfect confidence

M

Government, and since the establishment

and the severe of an efficient Police,

examples which have been made of some atrocious criminals, security of person and property have been established, in lien of the robbery and plunder which existed less than two years ago?

The most

gratifying subject of Climate the present Report is the successful vindication of this Colony from those charges of unhealthings, which accidental circumstances (some of them

inseparably

was a

inseparably conmeter with its first occupation, swelled into a species of panic about the time I quitted buglans, and led many fursons. to imagine that a residence in the place

a disperate undertaking. Some unprincipled attempts were made, (even after the truth was known), to augment. this panie, by the most xlaborate misrepresentations, and a great deal of

de nonsense about decarted 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 so

sã

Hong-kony a place of resort to invalids from India:

The Colonial Surgeon's very

complete