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When the proposed improvements are completed and the squatting of houses and the keeping of pigs under Ordinance 8 of 1866 is prevented, we may hope to find Taipingshan vastly improved in sanitary point of view.

9. Report and Estimate No. 3 of 1866 provides for the extension of the Government Sanitarium at Kowloon. A sum of $3,000 only had been voted in the Estimates for the current year for this service. It appeared to me that the small building proposed would be lost on the fine site set apart for it, and which is one of the best on the peninsula. I consequently caused plans to be prepared showing a two-storied house in place of the bungalow first proposed.

The leading medical authorities here were decidedly opposed to any European sleeping at a less elevation than from 12 to 14 feet above the ground.

10. This will give accommodation, if necessary at times, for five families. The building will doubtless be gladly availed of on its completion. Provision is made for a sanitarium, and whilst on the upper floor, ...

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When the proposed improvements are completed and the squatting of houses and the keeping of pigs under Ordinance 8 of 1866 is prevented, we may hope to find Taipingshan vastly improved in sanitary point of view. 9. Report and Estimate No. 3 of 1866 provides for the extension of the Government Sanitarium at Kowloon. A sum of $3,000 only had been voted in the Estimates for the current year for this service. It appeared to me that the small building proposed would be lost on the fine site set apart for it, and which is one of the best on the peninsula. I consequently caused plans to be prepared showing a two-storied house in place of the bungalow first proposed. The leading medical authorities here were decidedly opposed to any European sleeping at a less elevation than from 12 to 14 feet above the ground. 10. This will give accommodation, if necessary at times, for five families. The building will doubtless be gladly availed of on its completion. Provision is made for a sanitarium, and whilst on the upper floor, ... Page 173
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