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being chiefly in respect of overcrowding of tenement
houses and the erection of illegal cubicles.
In consequence of articles that
have appeared from time to time in the press and in view
of private representations that have been made to me to
the effect that considerable friction exists between the
Public and the Sanitary Department with regard to the en-
-forcing of the Sanitary Laws, I have recently appointed a
Commission to enquire generally into the subject of the
administration of these laws. The appointment of the
Commission was published in Government Notification No.
390 in the Government Gazette of the 11th. instant.
10.
Since the date of my Despatch
referred to in paragraph 1 above I have inspected all the
Colonial Government Medical and Sanitary Institutions,
including the Tung Wa Hospital and Po Leung Kuk maintained
by the Chinese under Government supervision, and I have
issued such instructions with regard to them as appeared
to me necessary. I have also visited the three Hospitals
under the London Missionary Society with regard to which
a report in the form of tables appears on pages 98 and 99
of the document now transmitted. By the courtesy of the
General