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is satisfied that this is the cheapest method.
Paragraph 8. Fees in Government hospitals for operations and treatments have recently been raised.
It is
not considered desirable to raise the fees for medical
attendance. These were increased in 1929.
Faragraph 9. The building of a new Government Civil
Hospital will be undertaken as soon as funds can be made
available.
SANITARY DEPARTMENT:
Paragraph 1, Government does not consider it
desirable to have street cleansing done by a contractor.
The system was tried before, and the results were not
satisfactory. Street cleansing is most important from the
health point of view.
Paragraph 2.
Government is prepared to give the
scheme a thorough trial as recommended by the Retrenchment
Commission, and has given instructions to the Head of the
Sanitary Department accordingly,
The replacement of
Europeans by Asiatics will have to be gradual, and the
experiment carefully watched, if it is to prove the success
which Government hopes it will be.
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Paragraph 4. t is very necessary to limit the
number of hawkers 13,748 licences were issued in 1929
and to control those who are licensed.
BOTANICAL AND FORESTRY DEPARTMENT:
No comments.
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT:
Paragraphs 3 and 4.
It is, as it always has been,
the