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With reference to the suggestions made in your despatch No.74 of the 16th.of March for the consolidation of all Ordinances dealing with Sanitary questions, or at any rate that an Ordinance consolidating all existing provisions for the constitution and powers of the Sanitary Board and the functions of the Medical Officer of Health should be pre-
pared, I have the honour to inform you that the Medical Officer
of Health has for some time past had in view the desirability of drawing up a Consolidated Public Health Ordinance, but has hitherto not had time to undertake the work.
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2, Dr.Clark points out that there some 35 Ordinances: dealing with questions concerning the Public Health, not counting the Puilding Ordinances, the Births and Deaths
* Regulation Ordinance, and the Water Works Ordinanceḍall or
which might be incoporated; and he had intended drafting a
· Consolidating Ordinance when he next goes or leave to England, which will be in 1902,a as it is not possible for him to spare
the time for the work here.
3. The Attorney General has also his hands
very: full or work, and it would not be reasonable to ask him
to undertake this special work at the present bime.
4.I think cherefore, that the suggestion of
the Medical Officer of Health should be adopted, and I would
further suggest, chat when he has completed his draft in
· England he might be accorded the assistance for a shore time FIGIT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, M.P.,
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