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of the Force will be materially benefited by the removal of the Water Police from the unhealthy Wiec Hulk (lately destroyed by fire), to the

to the new permanent station, now almost completed, at howloon.

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Moreover, a temporary

Police Barrack is in the course of creation on the Peak, or Will station, and will serve the double purpose of protecting the growing number of residents in that locality, and of serving as a sanatorium for

convalescent constables.

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" may further add that the health of the Volice, notwithstanding

the greater exposure to which they are subjcoted, does not compare unfavourably with the

of the soldiers stationed at

health

Honghong, and who inhabit __

more commodious and better-

fitted quarters.

9.

Finally, it is confidently

expected that the health of the Police and of the Garrison,

ad

well as of all the other classes of

our

population, will be materially

improved