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matters now are there is practi cally no properly constituted ~ Sanitary Authority and from
its very
nature it is impossible
that the Board as now
can
existing
adequately fulfil those~
re
functions expected of it, and that it can be held fully sponsible for any efficiency in the sanitation of the Colony. The state of Sanitary matters ax posed last summer at the outbreak of the plague suffici- ently bears out these views which
ex
which I believe I am right in
asserting
are shared by the
public at large.
"
Mr. McConachie while
nourring
in the views ex-
pressed by M. Keswick states: "the main fault to be found with the present Board is the fact that the responsibility for their actions cannot be pinned down to the Government or ~
any
particular! Mr__ Jackson's views are contained in the memorandum of which
I
one in