an
of your Executive Council and that there is practically unanimous opinion that the
opinion
Government should be held
directly, responsible for the
Your own view is to the same
Sanitation
of the colony.
Teffect and
recommend.
you
board
that "the sanitary
"as at present constituted "be abolished and that the
"head
677
the medical department
of this colony who should be "Styled Principal civil medical "Officer be made responsible "not only for the work of
"
that department but also
work of
" for the Sanitary "Colony other than that
the
nature which
an engineering should be placed under the Director of Public Works".
_ 3. The first I am not prepared
to controvert the
opinion
Whic737
has been thus given after long
attention to the subject and com.
•sultation with representative residents
in the
colony.
Sanitation is
So all important in Houghing
that it seems only, right that
★ it should be under the direct
Control of
the colonial government
and that there should be no
Arcitat responsibility
Should not be divided
(sho
in the
matter; but Iemsider it to be desirable that before the
board counting
Sanitary
as it does a papunten clement
definitely
lished, there
"should be some resolution or
expression of opinion to that effect on the past of the Legislative Council, and I would ask you to invite them to favour mo
me with a formal