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will be more easily and
effectively dealt with
more
by Government than by
a
constituted Board,
popularly co
am in
favour of sanitary
con-
affairs being placed directly under Government control and managed entirely by a Government department responsible to the Governor.
The alternative, a
Board composed entirely of unofficials, would not, I fear, work well in this
Colony
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Colony, which, as Lord Ripon has pointed out, has become a Chinese Colony under the British flag. Out of a population of 250,000, the Chinese
amount to about 243,000, and
it is with sanitation
among
the Chinese that a Board,
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whatever its constitution
may be, must be chiefly
concerned.
Further, it
would be extremely difficult to draw the line between matters which should
come