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"experience of lodging some invalid in a bare comfortles building without recupation, and without adequate protection against downk_ should be adduced before this hovernment

ought to decide on

abandoning

a site already levelled by the Military and on which there

were now

byjing nearly $2,000 worth of brick, sufficient to rebuild the main portion of the proposed Lodge, and the carriage of which alone to that height- had already cost uhward of $700.0

"If the Love.

was rebuilt and

"if, when rendered reasonably

comfortable, it was then visited by Medical men and considered by them

as unsuitable for sanatory purposes, there would

be

some justification for its abandonment. be auticilated however

am

entirely different

recull as also dish the Colonial

Surgeon of the Colony, who had an

any

for greater practical acquaintance with the influence of the bongtong climate on health than

Military Medical Officer who had been consulted. De looked forward to the erection

hereafter of a well devised