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that any movement of air from the land in question to the barracks is comparatively

of

rare occurrence and even

when it does occur is scarcely perseptible.

9.

if there

But even were, as I am confident

any

there could not be, sensible interruption affection of air from houses in the position referred to, it would be only such as

what by far

the

greater part

of the European population of HongKong suffer from

ina

greater degree; and it appears the least, unfair,

to me, to

Say

to maintain such a precaution

On

behalf of the troops, at so

heavy a cost to the health of the other Europeans; and this altogether apart from the serious loss thereby caused to the Revenue of the Colony.

10.

Your Lordship will

observe from the enclosed —

Penclosure correspondence that the

19th June to

of

22 July, 1888.

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