CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2] — Page 239

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Enclosure 1.

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Registrar-fleneral's Office,

Hongkong, 4th. August, 1910.

At a mooting held the other day in ry

office at which the rombers of the Dispenseries Committee and

eighteen members of the Street Committee of Salyingpun and

Shoktongtsui were present, the xxxixinx position of the West

Point Dispensary and District Plague Hospital was under con-

-sideration. It was pointed out that the outside wall of the

west verandah of the building ran along the western boundary of

the lost, and that if the adjacent pièce of Crown land was sold,

there was nothing to prevent the purchaser from building right

up to his boundary, and shutting out all light and air coming

from the west of the hospital.

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It must have been by an oversight that an

area was granted of such small dimensions as to render this

unavoidable, and the Government would only be carrying out its original intention if it enlarged Lot No. 1793 by a strip 13

feet in width so as to guarantee the hospital the statutory amount of external air, hope therefore that the Government

titiäxa will see its way to doing this.

3.

An inconvenience also connected with the

site was under discussion at the same meeting, namely the difficulty there is now in gaining access to the mortuary. It would be very difficult to carry a coffin from there out into the street and the Committee hope that arrangements may be made either by granting the strip mentioned above or by giving a right of way to Western Street at the back, along the lane

leading to the latrine.

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The Hon. Colonial Secretary.

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Registrar-General,