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unofficial majority and 31 for an official majority. "Among the former only three or four Chinese voted and among the latter none. From this plebiscitum it appears that 331 British residents are in favour of a controlling Board which should be controlled by unofficial members,
4. In view of my previously expressed opinion on the importance of divided responsibility in sanitary matters, it is hardly necessary for me to state that I am not in favour of a Board, the responsibility of which will be divided and which will exercise its functions independently of Government control. Judging from the working of the present Board, which consists of an official and unofficial element, the latter of which preponderated, I consider that a mixed constitution such...
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