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years I have had very few of these banna brought before me not a half a dozen of them and two of them were brought by the same man who was very persistent and proved he was right. Is it not reasonable taht there must be an enormous numbar

of these going to the Medical Officer of Health and tàn Secretary which never reach the Sanitary Board ↑ The writers

of the letter4

have waited some tine there is a delay.

and they then get an answer to say that they are

instruct-

-ed by the Sanitary Board" to carry out the order and then

the writer finds out afterwards that he is merely jawiskine

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upon the Medical Officer of Health or Secretary and the

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appeal nover comes before the people to whom the appeal is

addressed?

Don't you think that has been ̋answered.

What is so but what I want to get is that we hear there is a 485

great deal of dissatisfaction not amongst the Chinese only

but among the leading white residents as to the arbitary

action of the Sanitary Inspectors in ordering work to be

done and they have practically no redress. It is only quite

recently this Ordinance has been revised but are we not

quite right in assuming that there has been great deal of

harshness judging by the number of cases ↑

Al- I don't think there are a large number of appealm.

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I am not talking of criminal chargen, but of appeals to the 48k

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la a case like that the appeal would be laid before the

Board.

It has not been in the past. It must be so Judging from the

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few onnes vino, I have been on the Board. Don't you think it

wight ba ani people talk a jet shout it outside 1

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