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made it dangerous to live in certain parts of the City and
of the Peak District. I trust Your Lordship will not
you
consider that I am travelling outside my proper sphere by
suggesting that the measures which have proved efficacious
here might advantageously be followed as closely as
possible in Freetown in Sierra Leone where similar condi-
-tions exist of streams flowing into and through the town
over rough beds formed of granite rocks and boulders.
Should this suggestion, if it has not already been practic-
-ally adopted since I was last in Sierra Leone in 1899,
commend itself I shall be pleased to furnish details of
the work that has been carried out here for the assistance
of the Government of that Colony.
B.
The subject of the resumption of
insanitary property referred to in the Report of the
Principal Civil Medical Officer and Medical officer of
Health will be dealt with in a special report which will
be submitted later in the year in continuation of the one
covered by my Despatch No. 267 of the 2nd. November, 1905.
There were 1,566 prosecutions
9.
during the year under the Public Health and Buildings
Ordinance as compared with 772 in 1904, the increase
being
:
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