A Sanatorium
Governor Hercules Robinson (1859–1865) had a path cut in December 1859 from what is now Robinson Road to the top of Victoria Peak. The military authorities opened in the spring of 1862, a well-built sanatorium on the plateau below the flag-staff and sent 17 patients to be house their. However, the patients, like those in the rest of Hong Kong that year, did not improve and the military abandoned the site.
The site was then used for picnics until 1867
Granville and Matilda Sharp (after whom Matilda Hospital is named) who had long advocated the Peak as a healthy alternative to the lower levels, took a lease of the deserted sanatorium.
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