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convenience, and deficient in that kind of appearance which is the prestige of authority and power. I regret to add the

ours

observation of the

testimony of my dilapidated and dirty condition of the

two hill stations in Victoria,

durrounded

by the stagnant drainage of their now filth; besides which, their remotences from common

an injurious influence

observation exerts an,

on

the minds of the tenants, who become in their seclusion neglectful of those decencies of life which are as eccential for health as for physical and moral, efficiency.

are on

they are

The duties of the Police, I would

• presume to observe, demand a better sustenance than the pay of the natives will afford. They

- night duty, through every inclemency of weather, for six or nine consecutive hours, besides being liable to extraordinary services, in pursuits of pirates, suppressing disturbances, and attendance to prefer charges at the Police

Court: they

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are also liable to fines for neglect of

an

empty

duty. Attenuated muscles and stomach are certain promoters of debility, fatigue

and drowsiness; it is often excusable, therefore, to find

a native policeman more concerned about the shelter

of his cold and feeble body than the protection of property indefinitely under his charge. Notwith- standing this unfavorable physique of the Hongkong Police, they have not been the subjects

of extraordinary mortality, when it is remembered that statistical

6. fact's deduced from

are in a state of exaggeration.

small numbers

Table. Nr. 4.__. The vital statistics of the Police Force in

Hongkong, computed

over the past years.

over.

Fichnues to

Deaths

Hverage

Rate of Rate of Proportion of Proportion Strength. Sickness. Mortality. Strength. Strength.

184 193

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104-89 PC 5.43 7.C.