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Then I inspected the markets I found there in a filthy condition. In the Central market, which supplied nearly all the European population, the houses were dreadfully overcrowded, the coolies slept on the stalls at night and the bed clothes were over the stalls during the day, full of the filthiest description and lice, as all bedding of the poor is all over the town. There were clothes hanging over the meat, vegetables, fruit, and fish exposed for sale; the latter I found had often been washed in well water such as I have described as unfit to drink.
The market scavengers employed by Government lived in a room above the Market latrines, and through the interstices of the boards of the floor, the people in the latrines could be seen. There were thirteen market coolies and eleven of those employed in the year 1873 had died during the year.
During the first months of my inspections, I put myself in communication with the Surveyor General, Mr. Price, who, like myself, was a new arrival in the Colony and whose hands were full of work, and the Registrar General.
On April 15, 1874, I sent in a long report to Government of the result of my inspections.
These reports of mine astonished the Government and the different Departments affected by them so much that they hardly believed and generally considered me to have greatly exaggerated in the statements I had made; the result was that a commission was appointed, consisting of the Surveyor General, Mr. Price, an architect and engineer in private practice, Mr. Alford, and myself, to enquire and report on the state of things I had described.
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Then I inspected the markets I fomed
there in
ww a
-filthy condition.
In the Central banket which supplied nearly all the European population
the honces were
dreadfully overcrowded, the coolies slept on the stalls at night and the bed clothes were
the stall
during
over
heong the day of the filthiest
description and full of lice as all bedding the poor is all over the town, there
of
clothes hing
over the meat vegetables
fruit and fish exposed for sale, the latter I found had often been washed
in well water such as I have described
ко
infit to drink.
The market
Government
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scavengers employed by
lived in a room above the Market
latrines and
through
the interstices
of
the boards of the floor the people
in the latrines could be seen,
there were thisteen market coolies and eleven
those
employed year 1873.
of had died during the
During
the
year
I
During the first
Avat
of
first months
these
at work over
inspections putting myself in com munication with the Surveyor General Wr Price who like myself wo
was a news
arrival in the Colony and whose
weare full of work and the Registrar General
hands weere
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On April 15
1874
I sent in a.
long
report to Government of the result of
my inspections.
I
These reports of mine astonished. the Government and the clifferent Depart- ments affected by them so much that
hardly believed and generally considered to have greatly exaggerated in the statement's I had made; result was
Wars
that
the
a commission was
tbw
appointed concisting of the Surveyor General Mr Price, architect and enginer in private practice Wt Alford and myself to enquire and report on the state of things I had described.
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