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this subject No.1653 of 18th May 1895.
N. 337 of 2nd December, 1895.
noted in the margin you will have gathered that I am strongly in favour of undivided responsibility in sanitary matters. With this object in view I recommended in the first instance that the Sanitary Board as at present constituted should be abolished and that the control of sanitary matters should be placed entirely under the control of Government.
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ment. Afterwards, however, I informed you in my despatch N°337 of 2nd December, 1895, that I was willing in deference to the views of the majority of the Unofficial members of the Legislative Council, to accept a compromise, according to which the Board would be constituted of 3 official and 2 unofficial members, though I was not satisfied that undivided responsibility would be secured under