had to the Scale of salaries paid to Engineers here and at the other ports :
5. I need scarcely remind you
that since I have had the honor to
Assume the charge of this office its duties And responsibilities have increased very materially, occasioned by the addition of a class of work not altogether legitimately connected with my profession, but as I have taken
the
deepest interest and devoted some years of my career specially to questions of state sanitation, the Government, after adopting the reforms which I have from time to time had the honor to recommend, has lately been pleased to concentrate in my office the
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Executive duties which were formerly carried out by the Police and Medical Departments in conjunction
with the Registrar General and the practical success of this change and of our sanitary Administration as at present organized, especially in those branches
of it which relate to the daily removal of the waste products of the City, the daily cleansing of its streets, the scavenging of its dwellings and the Government Inspection of Nuisances, is so far complete as to have already effected a marked change in the health, condition, and appearance of the Colony. The extraneous character of
the Public Service which
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