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Reference

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by me relative to the drainage of the district-Tapingshan, and as it is specially applicable to such a Report as this I beg to refer to it as an opinion, in explanation of a Report by the Colonial Surgeon. referring

to ito incompleteness, the want of Sanitary for the preservation of the health of the Inhabitants.

and

annual

Measures

Reports have

My invariably adverted to the trials all Drains in the lity have to sustain ; every possible refuse article that can by popibility enter a drain is forced therein, shavings and sawdust from "Carpenters shops, masticates suger

Care (a no inconsiderable item) and variety of other articles, and these

1

are

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thrust in at the mouth and with

an insufficient supply of water the result must be evident, the drains

choked, but this is of us great

are

I th

consequence in general to the inhabitants " the houses, they will allow it to be so and let the waste water flow through their yards

or even

houses,

and excrcion alone compels them to to otherwise; but though improvements are intended in the Law and sanitary

be taken it requires

Areasures

may

constant surveillance

Police to see.

them fully Drains be they

by the

Carried out.

never so

effectively

formed must, without water and without care, prove useless with any class of persons, but more especially with the dirty half