CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6] — Page 476

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To this formidable list of Annual Reports connected with

Medical and Sanitary affairs in the Colony there has to be

added the report of the Government Bacteriologist which

has not yet been transmitted to you and the report of the

Registrar-General which deals inter alia with vital statis-

-tics and was forwarded in my Despatch No. 102 dated the

12th. April, 1905. With so many reports on kindred subjects

prepared by different Officers it is scarcely a matter of

surprise that there should be considerable overlapping

and repetition. As this does not tend to lucidity I am

considering how it can be avoided in future years without

losing any of the matter of different degrees of value now

embodied in the reports.

2.

The Colony was fortunate in es-

-caping in 1904 a severe visitation of Plague and it is

more than probable that the co-operation of the Chinese

population in cleansing their houses, due to the example

set them in the block of houses which Sir Henry Blake took

under his personal supervision in 1903, contributed to

that comparative immunity. This cleansing is being conti-

-nued on the same lines and Dr. Atkinson agrees with me

that it will be possible and advantageous to gradually

systematize it so that it shall be done regularly four

times