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larger block in the site of that

shown

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Lecture Theatre, which Theatre the Colonial Turgeon

says is not reouired, .

The basement floors should be raised at least four feet from the level of the ground.

It is not deemed advisables to build the Hospital

in Ilone on account of the increased Cost Excellent brick at considerably less expense is procurali,

from Cantaus. With the exceptions of a few Public Buildings with granite basements and Verandahs them is not in Hong Kong,

Hong Kong, a City of 100,000

inhabitants, a

The un

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single house built in stones.

of brick would, pender impossible, this

otherwise admirable suggestions of hollow walls

to ensure/

Coolness.

The provision of or maximum strength at os

minimum Cost vgainst the forces of typhoons which

in these latitudes vere violent enough; not only to unroof houses but literally to knock thems doever renders

necessity.

solid walls.

ر پرانی تصمیم

The Colonial Surgeon and the other Government Medical Officers consulted appear to buy very great stress upon the necessity of having Ferondoka.

Experience shows us that: during "Typhsons all substitutes of a light Find such as sunshades, Window

hoods, louvred balconies, &c.

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generally shaved, clean off the face of any building from which this may project, by the force of the wind.

For the some peason it is also important to have

the Favilians flat roofed.

Implice

over.

Surveyor Gennah 6.16 May 1876