CO129-017 - Sir John Davis - 1846 [7-12] — Page 98

valuable book which relates to

the

Sandtory condition of

this

Island, and more

expecially when

those Remarks seeme

to differ from

• gentleman of such extensive

profissional knowledge and

observation

A

contained in it, and

whole the Cemarks

the

35

ave most

temperate, judicious, and truth- ful - Nevertheless I consider,

that be has substituted the

Minor

the

(f) + Wilson, get from

for sickness

the

the vast imprevements which have

of

Your

late been made by order of Excellency, whereby the mortality have

been

да

really diminished

observation

0.0

to the

and

from

of the Endemic diseases not fully

Dr

coinciding with the Do, I feel

called upon

upon in justice to your - and Coadjutore to

offer the following Remarke - I cannot but

self

admit that at the time the

work

tvad

pouned there.

good grounds for the

tvert

Jamarker

contained.

· Major and mortality..

of

In page 149 he states it to

be liis conviction "that the

exhalations from the deserted dice grunds

the principal

CœuÉ I

of

are

the Endemic diseases.

of Hongkong," while d, from

OLUL

observation,

inclined

to believe that the ferincipal

the natural marsly.

Caves

Swamps, the decaying

avood,

ao

Tice fields -

KAZ

bruch.

the cultivated

This opinion I hope

to be able to substantiate by

the

fottereing