DRAFT.
under the control of one officer di-
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rectly responsible to the Government,
instead of remaining as at present under
& Board, and that you concur generally
in the views of the Committee "and are
"in favour of a fixed personal res-
ponsibility".
Were this recommendation to
be carried out, it would seem natural
that the Sanitary and Medical Depart-
ments should be combined, and the
Colonial Surgeon be made responsible
for the control of both the Medical
and Sanitary work of the Colony.
But when you report further
is
upon the matter as, I gather, your in-
tention I would ask you to bear in
mind the concluding paragraph of my des-
patch No.135 of the 23rd of August last
in which it was pointed out that the
Sanitary Board might be regarded as
"... papers as to representation beyond the