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defective sanitation elsewhere, Mr. Chadwick remarks on the deficient evidence on which such statements are based, and continues: (paragraph (115), "Even assuming the absence of certain forms of disease, and a comparative immunity from epidemics, there is no ground for the assertion that the violation of the laws of health is not punished, in China as elsewhere, with the general lowering of vital condition, and not only by intermittent scourges of epidemic disease.

9040 01a 449 previous despatch (W.41 of the 24th April ultimo), I have already drawn Your Lordship's attention to the words of Mr. Chadwick which follow those just quoted: "It is stated that hitherto Hong Kong has escaped the epidemics which have affected other places in the neighbourhood. The settlement is but forty years old, and the subsoil beneath the city may not yet be sufficiently saturated with filth to make it a hotbed for disease and a breeding ground of filth poison. It is somewhat premature to assume that

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14 15 defective sanitation elsewhere, Mr. Chadwick remarks on the deficient evidence on which such statements are based, and continues: (paragraph (115), "Even assuming the absence of certain forms of disease, and a comparative immunity from epidemics, there is no ground for the assertion that the violation of the laws of health is not punished, in China as elsewhere, with the general lowering of vital condition, and not only by intermittent scourges of epidemic disease. 9040 01a 449 previous despatch (W.41 of the 24th April ultimo), I have already drawn Your Lordship's attention to the words of Mr. Chadwick which follow those just quoted: "It is stated that hitherto Hong Kong has escaped the epidemics which have affected other places in the neighbourhood. The settlement is but forty years old, and the subsoil beneath the city may not yet be sufficiently saturated with filth to make it a hotbed for disease and a breeding ground of filth poison. It is somewhat premature to assume that In

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14 15 defective sanitation elsewhere, Mr. Chadwick remarks on the deficient evidence on which such statements are based, and continues: ( paragraph (115), "Even assuming the absence of certain forms of disease, and a _ # کو گھیر سمجھو # comparative immunity from epidemies, there is no ground for the assertion that the violation of the laws of health is not punished, in China as elsewhere, with the general lowering of vital condition, and not only by intermittent securges of epidemic_ #t disease. 9040 01 a 449 previous despatch (W.41 of the 24th April ultimo), I have already drawn Your Lordship's attention to the words of M. Chadwick which follow those just quoted: "It is stated that hitherto # HongKong has escaped the epidemies which have affected other placed in " the neighbourhood. The settlement is but forty years old, and the subsoil "beneath the city may not yet be # sufficiently saturated with filth to make it a hotbed for disease and a It is breeding ground of filth poison. somewhat premature to assume that In this

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defective sanitation elsewhere, Mr. Chadwick remarks on the deficient evidence on which such statements

are based, and continues: ( paragraph (115), "Even assuming the absence of

certain forms of disease, and a _

کو گھیر

سمجھو

comparative immunity from

epidemies, there is no ground for the

assertion that the violation of the laws

of health is not punished, in China

as elsewhere, with the general lowering of vital condition, and not only by

intermittent securges of epidemic_

disease.

9040

01 a

449

previous despatch (W.41 of the 24th

April ultimo), I have already drawn Your Lordship's attention to the words of M. Chadwick which follow those just quoted: "It is stated that hitherto

HongKong has escaped the epidemies which have affected other placed in

the neighbourhood. The settlement is

but forty years old, and the subsoil "beneath the city may

not yet be

sufficiently saturated with filth to make it a hotbed for disease and a

It is

breeding ground of filth poison. somewhat premature to assume that

this

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