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by Your Lordship, Colonel (nou retired Major-General) A.H. A. Gordon, has arrived and

assumed the duties of his office

2.

In a despatch written

here (M

soon after I came here

(11:39 of

expril 23, 1883), I reported that I found the brison, and most of the other public institutions in

in Hongkong,

in as

a

generally satisfactory

2 permitted by

condition as is

their confined sites and by the imperfect arrangements antiquated systems of management

which

}

which are rendered, to a large

to the

degree, inevitable, owing want of proper space, and of buildings embodying the results

of modern science and recent ~ experience. I added that the wils resulting from want of sufficient space and ventilation become intensified in this tropical - climate. I further remarked in subsequent despatches, that, with nut Superintendent of practical ~~

a

experience, it would be impossible to introduce here the improved

Prison