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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.