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cheque of to the letter the Surveyor General, where states. I should print out, however, with reference to El Macheson's estimate of £2,000. that the items 2340 and 2360 represent the cost of a multitubular "steam boiler and a steam "disinfecting apparatus" respectively. The boiler and disinfector do not form any part of the project for a Destructor, and they right, if desired, be altogether omitted. " They have, however, been included at my instance, because a public disinfecting apparatus has long been an admitted want in the Colony, " because, if a Destructor is erected, the heat radiated from the furnance may, without extra cost, be utilized to generate steam for the purposes of the disinfection " of clothes and bedding from the sanitary hospitals and Gaol, and from private tenements in "cases of infectious sickness and in times of epidemic."