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improve such properties and to abate overcrowding. I enclose a copy of the Commission and shall address you again on this subject when the Commission has reported.
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10. In conclusion I think it right to inform you that in my opinion the spread of the plague this year has been arrested to a great extent by the action of the Sanitary Board, which has been unceasing in its efforts to prevent such a calamity. All the members of the staff of the Board have been most energetic in the discharge of their onerous duties and the President (Mr. Cooper) and the Medical Officer of Health (Dr. Clark) deserve to be specially commended for their share in the plague work of 1896.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your Most Obedient Humble Servant,
William Robinson
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