CO129-108 - Public Offices - 1865 — Page 396

No

392

or

for the Encampment was extremely

cligible in Every respect, being elevated ground open to the breeze, sufficiently removed from the excavations & be out of the reach

and

in

of malarions influence. The lickness diminished considerabl almost immediatel upon then change, although fever still prevailed t- an extent difficult to account for, considering the apparent

salubrity of the spot. Un caser however were of a mild type, the patient generally being seldom more than from 6 to 10

days in hospital: tie mortality

during the Case quarter has been

in considerable, & deallin only, little over one per cent of thes total abrengths of the Confer.

J

or

an inclined to coincide

in this opinion expressed by the

Medical Board, as litter cause of the unhealthiness of Kowloon, and I fear that until good Barracks are built, trees plantia, this place thoroughly drained, and wholesome water obtained,

sickness to a certain extent

with continue to prevail amory