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and employers would have to boil
purposes
water
every would not surprise any one acquainted with the habits
evening An bathing
really
of even
the
municipal authorities would do well to follow.
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In another despatch I shall
Count Chinese. No doubt certain
Europeans in Hong Kong
as well as in
California and Australia denounce the
Chinese
as
dirty
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Never
bathing
and even Dr. Types the Colonial Surgeon, has, in the imperfect passages of the enclosed
report made a few
general statements on this subject that are somewhat misleading.
It is that in this important
to myself the hour of proposing the
formation of a sanitary committee, department in this Colony somewhat similar to the Department of Public Health your Lordship established in 1872 in Sierra Leone
Ito such legislation will be required to start such a department in Hong Kong
clause XII of Ordinance 19 of 1857
and the XXXI of Ordinance 10 of 1867 give the Governor ample power to appoint a Medical Inspector of the sanitary state
of the Colony and an
Inspector of Hospitals.
Vis act is that
sanitary practice, they
we a
clean
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availed of principally,
I understand
people, and even in the lower classes set a good example which our soldiers
those clauses have not been hitherto