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under the control of one officer di-

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rectly responsible to the Government,

instead of remaining as at present under

& Board, and that you concur generally

in the views of the Committee "and are

"in favour of a fixed personal res-

ponsibility".

Were this recommendation to

be carried out, it would seem natural

that the Sanitary and Medical Depart-

ments should be combined, and the

Colonial Surgeon be made responsible

for the control of both the Medical

and Sanitary work of the Colony.

But when you report further

is

upon the matter as, I gather, your in-

tention I would ask you to bear in

mind the concluding paragraph of my des-

patch No.135 of the 23rd of August last

in which it was pointed out that the

Sanitary Board might be regarded as

"... papers as to representation beyond the