CO129-069 - Sir Bowring - 1858 [5-12] — Page 619

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" any other Public Works of "secondary importance until " such improvements in the

· Hack and the adjoining "Hospitals as are consistent " with humanity and the : health and safe custody of "the prisonces have been "completed."

"Lord Stanley (in despatch N. Gof 2.27 March) peiterates 1 this injunction and pronounces that of Public Works the Baol is the first in importanc " and the Sospital the nest. "

I quite

concur,

in this

view, and must recommend

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the immediate inception of

the Gaol Improvements .

E the Gool is luckily

most healthly situated, otherwise I should dread the

consequences of its overcrocoded

state, and cannot lose

sight of the fact that, we

s of relieving

have no means

the Gool by carrying out sentence of transportation except through an occasional and uncertain demand from Labuan, which may or may

not be repeated.

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would especially

draw your attention to the