CO129-357 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1909 [7-9] — Page 286

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Enclosure 1.

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Registrar-General's Office,

Hongkong, 2nd. July, 1907.

I have the honour to enquire whether the

Government is prepared to grant a site for a district plague

hospital for Wanchai on the rear portion of the site on which

No. 3 Police Station stood, and if so on what terms. The

members of the Chinese Public Dispensaries Committee have been

endeavouring for some time to have such a hospital provided for

the eastern portion of the town and there is now every prospect

of the necessary funds being forthcoming. We have obtained the

option of purchasing certain houses in Nullah Lane but there

are objections to them - they are low and stuffy and they are

at the entrance to a street which is occupied by well-to-do

families and when we visited the district yesterday we

unanimously came to the conclusion that a hospital built on the

site now proposed would be in every way preferable. I enclose

a tracing showing the locality and have filled in in red ink

the proposed site and approach to it. There should be no

difficulty in selecting a site on the area marked in red. The

ground would not require much levelling which is important from

our point of view, and there will still be room and to spare

for a row of houses in front facing on Queen's Road East. Our

option of purchasing the houses in Nullah Lane expires on the

12th. July, so I hope the matter may be considered urgent.

I have etc.,

(sd.) A. W. Brewin,

he Honourable

The Colonial Secretary.

Registrar-General.

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