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a copy of AM hear. 20

Oct.26

At With Wrth. Gladstone.

Fir J. H Davis

19th August,

Viatorias, Hongkong 16.

Received

N.98.

the

Reporting sales Opium, salt, and Stone,

Farms for the

Ju arry on sub-47.

"Year"

Supliante.

Ne 99

Military.

H

32

Victoria, Hongkong, 19th August,

1846.

With reference to your - Despatch., Military No.1, of April. 21th, I have the gratifying duty to transmit the enclosed. Medical Report - prom. 9r. Fill the felonial. Surgeon.,

and to state.

my

entire belief in his statement. that. Honghong has become the healthiest of Her Majesty's Oriental felonies

The causes

of the great mortality among

the Troops, in the Years 1843 and 18611, have - become. obvious with the progress of time, and. with the developement and completion. of the remedies which have been successfully applict.

of a merely local nature...

landed here-after-

to such

as were

Large bodies of

Men were

Right. Honorable,

W.. R. Gladstone, M. P.,

the

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