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Office Chope that something they contain

be of noe to you.

I attach

a

In addition in the Mt.

newspaper cutting which reports

the fird public

cement of the

Kings Park echeme Inade by His Excellency Sir M. Isaseigne in connection with the Coronation celebrations at a meeting of the Committer appointed is carry them out.

Enclos

Kowloon has suffered severely from

malarial fever which in one part was greatly reduced come Rears ago by after the late Mr. J. D. Humphreys re- danned lot of ewampy land, which

he owned & built there on houses which

were rented for the Hongkong Regenment-

tothers. At that time then morguits

(Anopheles) and Indana theory

fumo hist

known, but the improvement in them healthiness of Kowloon no doubt, in the light of present day science, was

owing to the destruction of the breeding grounds. the previous swamp-of the Anoshells

Mosquits.

The site of the Kings Park is intersected by three valleys which

are in much

the

the same condition

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"the land owned by I'm

Humphreys before he reclaimed it, and there

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ewampy valleys. breeding places of the maland fever in fecting morgento which is within

easy flight of new military banacks and en- campments, comme Comorian houses, and

the deadly populated Chinese withanger. Lown, of you

the, all of which must

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suffer from the mosquits which breeds in the

emampo.

Besides providing recreation

grounds it is of importance that the

Three valleys should be quickly drained_ and levelled was to mind them of the mosquiti &tes have the people from avoidable richness and mortality but sunderstand that it-

proposed to place only $5,000 on aast years estimates for the kings Park, which would be insufficient to reclaim these swamponly. It would be furthering the object of the dechuction of the Anopheles Mosquity, in which Im Chamberlain has done much for the welfare of colonies, if these valley could be all taken in hand and comped at