that with the view of avoiding the issue of conflicting orders, the Surveyor General, Registrar General and Colonial Surgeon should form a Sanitary Board and that orders should be issued by the Chairman of the Board.

At first both the Surveyor General and the Colonial Surgeon expressed the opinion that Mr. McCallum might continue to perform his duties as Government Analyst whilst holding the Office of Sanitary Inspector but they have both since withdrawn that opinion and the Colonial Surgeon recommends that in event of Mr. McCallum being appointed by Your Lordship Sanitary Inspector a fit person should be selected and sent from home as Apothecary for the Civil Hospital who should possess the full diploma of the Pharmaceutical Society and have a good certificate as Analyst. His pay should be the same as that of Mr. McCallum.

An important consideration urged by the Colonial Surgeon is that in the event

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