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soon as warning was received of the near approach of a typhoon. The
sailors would no doubt take with them to the Gun Club Hill Barracks
where they would be temporarily accommodated, their personal ef-
-fects which presumably are not very bulky. The complaint in the
4th. paragraph of Lieutenant Skrydioff's letter appears to his
Excellency to be somewhat of a frivolous character.
5.
The report that has been furnished on the
subject of the 5th. paragraph of the letter shows that a nuisance
occurred at one time owing to the grating at the entrance to the
drain which took sullage water from the cook-house and ablution-
-room in the camp having been allowed by the persons there to
become choked. A further nuisance due to the choking of a manhole
below the Camp has long since been remedied.
6.
Paragraphs and 7. A private supply of
water for the Camp was provided at the level of the road below it
in February last. There appears however to have been sore delay
in pointing out its position to Lieutenant Fini, then senior of-
-ficer at the Camp. At present water is being supplied at the Camp
itself at all times of the day.
7.
Faragraph 8. While agreeing that residence
in a tropical climate may not as a rule be beneficial to the health
of Europeans, His Excellency points out that many thousands of
various nationalities live for some years in Hongkong without
deleterious effect and that there are no grounds for believing
that the hussian sailors though they may suffer from indisposition
are as a body incapable of standing the climate.
8.
Faragraphs 9, 10, 11, and 15. It is the
case that Lieutenant Fini and one sailor Michael Dityatieff -
were invalidel on Dr. hennie's certificate, but the recommendation
of that gentleman that over a third of the sailors should be sent
to Europe on account of their health showed either that a serious
demic
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