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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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by me on the 12th pätober last your.

Whe autherised you to issue this ↑

on my own apcount, after there had been some dispute between Plague Inspector Woolley and Inspector Carter. Notice read as follow#!=

"To Plagus Inspectors. 12.10.05. On several occasions "lately owners of houses have disputed their liability "to reoonerets ground surfaces and on referring the *matter to the Surveyor it has been found that the

"notions applied for by the Plague Inspectors have not "been justified. More sare must in future be sxercised "in examining ground suffxoes. The condition of the

"whole ground surface of a blook of houses must not be "judged by opening up one floor in a house, nor aust "the state of the whole ground surface of one house ba *judged by opening such floor merely in sme spot. The "condition of a kitchen surface for instance cannot be #judged by opening up the gloor of the ground storey "of the main part of the house nor does the state of "the congrate in a yard gåve a correat idea of what the "whole of the ground surface of the premises may be *kike, sé. F. W. Pearys.

(continued) You have already got a copy of that in my book of instructions.

You say you have been under the impression that the contractors sent out touta to find out what the Inspectors wanted to be done ?

I can hardly say I was under the impression, but I heard it was being done, and I thought it quite possible.

How do you adeount for this onse; sometime at the and of last year, I received an official noties te alap, fanta pipo at the four of one at my houses in qus BELE

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