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naught by fucts - This alone would be
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¿ rositively certaciv that for years (probably many) and raised by many feet of soft and fresh Earth would be very far from. Exalthy wondence for Europeans, and it is not at all unlikely that the costly experiment tried by building Barracks
place would eventually tur out to be for sanitary reasons an utter
tire draived marshes covered over
in such
a
tried
such
and melancholy failure. I am totally averse to there being experiment
arr
any
the health of our Soldiers
in this Country for
us
truly said
dscwhere "human life is too expensive aw article out here" to make it at all
advisable to countenance.
trial
any
that might have such a fatal.
To conclude, my.
opinion of the site
issue
honest unprejudiced
now under consideration. Military
and that of every other, thedical Officer
that it has nothing
I have consulted, is,
but ou
to recommend it, but
a
the contrary in
sanitary point of view-everything to condemn it, and speaking
as
the
Punicipal Medical Officer charged with
wataliing
over
the health of the Troops in
China, after having had experience of
thew Country at intervals
f
many years, I would pronounce it as
a
locality altogether unfitted for Troops to occupy, and therefore for Govenment to lay out Public Money in the construction of Barracks there would be
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