8.
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There are 35 British Inspectors
on the Staff but there were 3 vacancies during the time the
Commission was sitting. There are, therefore, 16 whose
names are not mentioned by the Commissioners. It is to be
presumed that in their prolonged investigation no charges
were discovered that could be brought against these men.
This fact should have been mentioned in the report.
It is also to be noted that in the
majority of cases the money given was a present to smooth
possible difficulties that might arise rather than a bribe
to condone some specific illegality.
9.
The difficulties which the Com-
-mission, although armed with full powers to compel the
attendance of witnesses and production of documents,
experienced in obtaining evidence of corruption show, I
submit, that the Head of the Department and his locum
tenens Dr. F. V. Clark cannot be held to blame for
not themselves discovering the existence of corruption in
the Department.
The Sanitary Staff is well paid
and has for the most part been carefully selected. The
only preventive that I can suggest against the recurrence
of