CO129-173 - Sir Kennedy - 1876 [1-3] — Page 479

stathing and outhouses connected with such buildings; the cultivation of Garden and the drainage, and the large number

of Chinese servants and others usually collected about such buildings, - all these

circumstances would tend to render

and in time

the district insanitary, might prove to be hardly less objectionable than the cession of the ground for

Cultivation alone.

8. In conclusion, I would remark

that the probable effect of the cession

in question, if the land were used for the purpose alluded to, would prove to be unfavourable to the health of the Troops generally.

I have &c., &c.,

J. Moorhead Major, Acting Surgeon General, Principal Medical Officer

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Quarter Master General's Office,

Hongkong, 27th June,

1868.

I have the honor to acknowledge

the receipt of your letter No. 299 of the 28th Instant, respecting the proposed New Land, and the

ground South of it which the War Department is about to cede to the Colony of Hongkong.

In your former

Communication

you

intimated

on the 8th Instant that His Excellency the Governor

would be

glad to know if Major

General Brunker had

any

objections

The Hon. J. Gardiner Austin, Colonial Secretary