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direct control of the Government.
From the enclosed copy. of a letter from the Chamber of Commerce, which includes in its membership the leading: European merchants in this Colony, it will be seen that dis content exists with regard to the sanitation of the Colony,
and I feel certain that this feeling of discontent will not
be removed and that the sani
tation of this Colony will never be put on a vatisfactory footing
until
Encl: 3.
19th October, 1894.
until the sanitary arrangements
are
placed under the direct control of the Government-as recommended by the unofficial members whom I have quoted above, by Mr Jackson, and by the members of Executive
Council in whose recommend.
ations Leoneur.
I therefore submit for Your Lordship's approval that - the Sanitary Board as at,
at present
constituted be abolished and that the Head of the Medical
Department