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was concerned. The work of this Department in connection with the Markets is as much as it can possibly undertake to perform efficiently and is in a way less than what it has always been.
(Signed) J. H. Stewart Lockhart, Registrar General
15th October, 1887
It were convenient to make the Staff of the Inspector of Live Stock appear on the Estimates of the Sanitary Department, as the duties of that Officer, an Inspector of Markets, with which this Office is chiefly concerned, are not so numerous as purely sanitary duties.
In fact when this matter was discussed in the Sanitary Board I strongly urged that the sanitary arrangements of the market, which were exciting so much attention among the public, were without doubt in a very unsatisfactory condition, and should be undertaken by the Sanitary Board, because this Office, not through wilful neglect but through want of a proper sanitary Staff, owing to the continual increase in the duties properly belonging to the Office of Protector of Chinese, had never given, and under similar conditions, could never give the Markets the attention they required so far as sanitation was concerned.