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and summary measures adopted at present exist, for carrying into effect the various clauses of the Bye Laws, and the assistance given to my Department as suggested, by the employment of a staff of Works, which the Department has been deprived of for eight years, has already been applied for, I hope that matters, not alone of drainage, but of stability, and
precautions of preventing the spread of fire from line to line, with the
Alleviation proposed on a more satisfactory footing
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Satisfactory.
I may also observe that arrangements have been made for the cleansing of portion of the city by the erection of rubbish depots, and the daily Removal of the deposit
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by contract, and a further proposition for the creation of public
necessaries has also been submitted
for the consideration of His Excellency the Governor, so that so far as there
Governor, so that are completed, and the Police Ordinance in operation, we may
Safely state that precautions will have been taken for
will be very possible! "the preservation of the health of the inhabitants, and as perfect a system of drainage
as circumstances demand
I must here remark that with the late immense influx of people
at this present water supply reason is quite insufficient for the wants of the population, and although a service is at present in course of execution for a supply of water in case of fire, it also is inadequate
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