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The Board appears not to have worked well, except during the plague, when the bulk of the work was done
by a special Standing Committee, the unofficial atten- dance was irregular, the public took no interest in tho elections, lately nearly all of the unofficial members took offence and resigned; after which the Board, having come back very much to what it started from, viz an official body, worked smoothly and well. The Retrenchment Committee of 1894 suggested the "early consideration of the question whether the whole sanitary system of the Colony should not be placed on a different basis and all the sanitary arrangements and powers placed in the hands of one thoroughly compe- tent officer, who should be personally responsible to
Government in all sanitary matters.
The Governor also was in favour of fixed personal responsibility, and, in a despatch dated the 18th of May last, he showed that the leading unofficials were of much the same opinion, and he urged that the Board
of two colour should be abolished and the sanitation be placed unter
A the Chief Medical Officer of the Government.
A reply went back to the effect that Mr Chamberlain while inclined to accept the Governor's conclusion, con- sidered that, before the Sanitary Board should be definitely abolished, there should be some resolution or expression of opinion to that effect on the part
of the Legislative Council.
The Governor now reports that the unofficial mem- bars are so divided in opinion that there is no chance
of
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