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"What appears to me to be most urgent is that immediate steps
"should be taken to organise and enforce a thorough house to
"house and street to street service for the removal of night
Every soil, garbage, ashes, house sweepings, and rubbish of evety sort.
Soon after the receipt of Mr. Chadwick's reports Mr. Marsh appointed a
permanent Sanitary Board to supervise and control the practical sanitatic
of the Colony. The Board consisted of the Surveyor General, the Registrar
General, and the Colonial Surgeon, with a Sanitary Inspector and Staff.
Three months later a Bill entitled "The Order and Cleanliness Amendment
Ordinance" as pussed by the Legislative Council. Section 2 of this Or-
dinance empowered the Governor to constitute a permanent Sanitary Board,
consisting of the official memberrs above naned, and two other un-
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official members to be appointed by the governor. Section 3 gave powers t
ficat to such Sanitary Board to abate overcrowding or fith, while Section 4
conferred on the Board authority to enter and inspect houses. In 1888
Messrs. A.P.MacEwen and P.Manson were appointed by the Governor the first
unofficial members of the Sanitary Board. The meetings of the Board as
then constituted were held in private, and little was known of their
work and progress, but it is certain they were usefully employed, and
made recommendations concerning the Public Health Ordinance which was/read
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a first time in the Legislative Council on the 8th. May 1887. This highly
in portant and greatly needed enactment. which, after a long discussion,
was duly passed, sent to the Secretary of State, and approved by Her Ma-
jesty, contains all the powers necessary to secure the proper sanitation
of the Colony. By it the Sanitary Board is authorised to make bye-laws
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