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would tend to maintain the present depths of water.
This on the one hand would be of enormous benefit to Naval interests, while on the other hand the reclamation of the adjoining noxious black mud foreshores which are left exposed to the rays of the sun during the hours of low tide would be of equal advantage to the Naval Establishment from a Sanitary point of view. It cannot therefore be said that the Admiral has not a direct, and a very material interest in the realization of this work.
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am not able to amplify much the Chinese objections to the Public Health Bill, nor up to the present those objections have not found any very definite expression, but I am informed that Dr Ho Kai, a member of the Sanitary Board who is particularly active in organizing an opposition to the Bill will shortly arrange for a public meeting of the Chinese landlords of Colony when we may expect to have their views from their own lips.
18. The views of the tenant, whose necessities compel them to inhabit the dark, unventilated and insanitary habitations prepared for them by the landlord class will however I apprehend never transpire either through a public meeting or any other channel.
19. In conclusion I desire to submit that the whole of the provisions of the Bill are mostly based (I) on the model Sanitary Bye-laws of the Local Government Board published by that Department for guidance of Municipalities and urban authorities at home, (II) on several other Legislative Enactments of England, and (III) on the recommendations of Mr. Chadwick adapted to meet the peculiar conditions.