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the liability both of achieving and maintaining the Cantoment's immunity from malaria. The Cantonment will always be the biggest unit of population within its region and the fact that its habitability must depend on the elimination of the malarial menace
is a sufficient safeguard for the civil interest. I am indeed most
anxious to avoid dual responsibility in this area and to make sure that any mosquito invading the Cantonment after, or in the course of, its construction shall be a military and not a civil insect.
The only stipulation that I have felt it necessary to make is that
the Military Authorities should maintain close liaison with the
civil Directors of Medical Services and of Public Works, both of
whom have practical as well as professional knowledge of anti-
malarial measures in Hong Kong and are therefore in a position to
render expert advice. This close liaison has, I am glad to say, already been established in the preparation of the mosquito survey
of the area.
4.
The second part of the agreement stipulates that the
Colonial Government will waive all claims for cash payments in
respect of resumptions and formation work arising out of the terms
of transfer of the Kau Lung Tsai area which were detailed in Sir
Thomas Southorn's despatch No.472 of 15th August, 1935, and in
55035 return the War Department agrees to the following terms regarding
the roads constructed, widened or surfaced by, and at the cost of,
the Military Authorities:-
(a) The Colony will retain full possession and user of
the roads and future roads shewn in Enclosure (1) so far as
these roads lie outside areas of actual fortification vested,
or which may in future be vested,
thereby closed to public entry.
road are affected.
(b)
in the War Department and
Some twenty-eight miles of
The War Department will waive all requests for a contribution from the Colonial Goverment in respect of the
cost of construction of these roads. (The total expenditure
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