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Class Superintendents of Nuisances and two additional Second Class Superintendents of Nuisances, whose services will be mainly employed in connection with Overcrowding, House Drainage, and the prevention of food adulterations, this increase of staff would give ... in addition to those mentioned by the Medical Officer of Health in his report to the Sub-Committee under date of July 21st 1899, the facts may be said ----
(1) that Bubonic Plague may be said to have become endemic in the Colony and will therefore require the greatest vigilance on the part of the Sanitary Staff to hold it in check; and
(2) that during the five years 1894 to 1898 the Sanitary Board received most valuable assistance from the Police Department in combating the various outbreaks of Bubonic Plague; in 1898 they had the exclusive services of 13 European Police Officers during a period of two months, while in 1896 equally valuable assistance was ...