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Sanitary Board altogether ?
The answer to that requires some modification. These Standing Orders, as they are worded there were repealed by an Ordinance, but taking them generally as governing the duties of the Staff, they have been acted upon.
So I understand that you, as teting P. C. M. 0. eupposed that where it was convenient, these Standinų: Orders were enforced, and where it was inoonvenient, these tanaing Orders were waived ?
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were modified ?
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