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and the sanitary arrangements imperfect.
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I also enclose for Your Lordship's information copy of my minute of the 4th May referring the question of the state of the latrines to the Colonial Surgeon, Dr. Ayres. In his reply of the 29th of May he gives reasons for his thinking that nothing could be done to carry out the dry earth system in Hougtong Gaol: though he sees that even in the warden's quarters the stench is, at times, sickening; that the previous warden's health suffered much in consequence.
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Ayres reply. A case of cholera or typhoid fever in the crowded and badly situated Gaol of Hongkong might speedily destroy a large proportion of the community, and I directed proper steps to be taken without any unnecessary delay for establishing the dry earth system.
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6th of June I pointed out that..
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6 June. Page 13-
Ayres
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