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be either specially appointed, or the duties of such an officer be added to those of some existing medical functionary.
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
J.M. Campbell Assistant Secretary
The perusal of the report, to which the foregoing remarks exclusively apply, has suggested to the President that the evils, described by the Colonial Surgeon as arising in Hong Kong from the absence of sanitary administration in that island, are such as may with great probability be supposed to exist more or less in all colonial towns, and of course principally in those where the increase of population has proceeded with rapidity; and the President desires me to suggest for the consideration of Sir H. Molesworth whether it might not be expedient, by circular letter from the Colonial Office, to draw the special attention of colonial authorities to this very important branch of local government and to the scope and objects of the legislative enactments which are here in force for the preservation of public health.