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Year 1874 which I ordered to be printed in full with the Minutes and Marginal notes.
2. Two Medical reports of the Colonial Surgeon, made in 1874, have also been found in the Colonial Secretary's office, one on the sanitary state of the Brothels licensed by the Registrar General's Department and the other on the state of certain Houses where women were kept under licences from the Registrar General's Department. Both of them have been sent to the printer and Copies will be transmitted to your Lordship by the next Mail.
& paragraph 12 of my Despatch No. 97 of the 8th Instant referred to the fact that I had insisted useful provisions in Ordinance No. 8 of 1856 being enforced in all new buildings and reconstructions. As an illustration of this I enclose for your Lordship's information my application (with the various Minutes showing the Official action thereon) that came before me in January 1874 from the leading European Architects in the Colony suggesting that I should allow certain houses to be built for a Chinese Bank and a Goldsmith's shop to be constructed without Kitchens or Cooking places. As I usually do in such matters, I desired to have the Opinions of the leading Chinese on the question before I finally decided it; and I
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