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made it dangerous to live in certain parts of the City and

of the Peak District. I trust Your Lordship will not

you

consider that I am travelling outside my proper sphere by

suggesting that the measures which have proved efficacious

here might advantageously be followed as closely as

possible in Freetown in Sierra Leone where similar condi-

-tions exist of streams flowing into and through the town

over rough beds formed of granite rocks and boulders.

Should this suggestion, if it has not already been practic-

-ally adopted since I was last in Sierra Leone in 1899,

commend itself I shall be pleased to furnish details of

the work that has been carried out here for the assistance

of the Government of that Colony.

B.

The subject of the resumption of

insanitary property referred to in the Report of the

Principal Civil Medical Officer and Medical officer of

Health will be dealt with in a special report which will

be submitted later in the year in continuation of the one

covered by my Despatch No. 267 of the 2nd. November, 1905.

There were 1,566 prosecutions

9.

during the year under the Public Health and Buildings

Ordinance as compared with 772 in 1904, the increase

being

:

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