Superintendent of Police. Some confirmed facts have strengthened my belief that there is no special mortality beyond what increase of "population will account for, and further that this city is not considered by the Chinese more inimical to health than the towns of the Mainland.
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38. The Brick Hill Hospital should be enlarged, and measures to effect this are under consideration for early adoption.
39. There is one point that I take this special opportunity of bringing to your Excellency's notice - the numerical strength, organisation, and several duties of the Government Departments.
40. The Colonial Secretary's Office should be relieved of routine duties accidentally thrown upon it. The Harbour Master should act as Registrar of Shipping and should perform the various details required in other places from the regular business Officer, such as giving Certificates of the landing of goods, etc., which have been required during the War, and are given by the Colonial Secretary in the month of their applying.
41. The Emigration business, as I have already suggested, should go to an Assistant Harbour Master, an Officer who would relieve the Harbour Master of certain of his duties.
42. There seems to me some lack of method in the Harbour Master's Department in the Shipping Office in the Harbour.
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