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: the present frightful state of overcrowding and other nuisances which sooner or later always bring their punishment.
However, sanitation and the proper housing of the poor have been a prominent subject before the public at home, and there is nothing I can expect to say which will enlighten the Local Government Board, to whom, I presume, the Bill will be submitted, as I infer from your despatch and enclosures (marginally noted).
4. Fortunately in England there is a public opinion against which even the rights of property, when wrongfully exercised, have to give way; at Hongkong property is the main consideration amongst a community which congregates here to accumulate sufficient