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direct control of the Government.

From the enclosed copy. of a letter from the Chamber of Commerce, which includes in its membership the leading: European merchants in this Colony, it will be seen that dis content exists with regard to the sanitation of the Colony,

and I feel certain that this feeling of discontent will not

be removed and that the sani

tation of this Colony will never be put on a vatisfactory footing

until

Encl: 3.

19th October, 1894.

until the sanitary arrangements

are

placed under the direct control of the Government-as recommended by the unofficial members whom I have quoted above, by Mr Jackson, and by the members of Executive

Council in whose recommend.

ations Leoneur.

I therefore submit for Your Lordship's approval that - the Sanitary Board as at,

at present

constituted be abolished and that the Head of the Medical

Department