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being prepared in the Public Works Department, and should the experiment prove a success no doubt other similar latrine will be built in various parts of the City.
Para. VI. The Committee are not in favour of the
recommendation that all the night-soil from the Hill District should be discharged into the Peak Road sewer but would suggest that, to avoid the carriage of night-soil from this District
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to the boats alongside the Praya a small property-terraced?
farm should be laid out at the upper part of the Aberdeen Valley (avoiding the watershed of the Aberdeen water works) and that all night-soil should be carried there and properly trenched, (as is done in India). The land should be used for raising Guinea-grass which is largely in demand in this Colony as fodder for cattle or some other similar crop for the feeding of cattle.
Para. VII.Additional urinals are undoubtedly urgently needed and this want has been brought to the attention
of the Government during recent years. The Committee are of
opinion that, with a view to the saving of the water supply, further experiments might be made with sawdust filled recepta- oles, if a few suitable buildings are put up in convenient
localities.
We have etc.,
(Sd.) R.D.Ormsby,
D. P. W.
(Sd.) Edward Osborne.
(Sd.) Francis W.Clark,
M. O. H.
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