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No serious epidemic has occurred during the year, and the staff have therefore been able to press forward the various sanitary improvements which bad been already legislated for but which in many cases had not been carried out by property owners, such for instance as the concreting of ground surfaces, the regulation of cubicles and cocklofts, the registration of common lodging-houses, the occupation of basements, etc., and the good results of such general improvement in the sanitary condition of the Colony will be found in the reduced death-rate which has already been recorded in this Report. These duties have been performed in an efficient and at the same time, I venture to think, in a judicious manner, and I consider that the Sanitary Board has every reason to be satisfied with the work which the staff has performed during the past year.
The following is a list of the Inspectors of Nuisances at present employed by the Board:-
No. 1 Health District,......Mr. L. BRETT.
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Each Inspector is provided with a Chinese Interpreter and a Foreman of Street Cleansers, the latter of whom controls the contractor's coolies and assists the Inspector in seeing that the cleansing of the streets, lanes, etc. is properly carried out, while he also assists in disinfecting infected premises and in carrying out the general sanitary work of the district.
I append a copy of the mortality tables which have been duly checked by myself as Superintendent of Statistics, and a series of diagrams which have been prepared by Mr. HUGH MCCALLUM in continua- tion of the former series,
and have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
FRANCIS W. Clark.