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previously existing. Lecturers have been employed by the Tung
Wa to explain in the streets and the markets the objects of
Sanitation and the purpose of the Government actions. Modifica-
-tions in law as in the cubicle question where possible have
been made so that it may weigh less heavily on the poorest
of the population. Above all I anticipate with confidence that
the appointment of an Executive Head to the Department, a
Chinese-speaking Cadet who can devote his whole time to the
work, and who may in some degree stand between the people, and
the too rigid application of the letter of the law will have
the most beneficial effect.
12.
The Commission in its origin was
merely a "Committee of the Unofficial Members of the Sanitary
This
Board" and my predecessor declared that he had no intention of
modifying the existing law. It grew, however, into a Commission
which recommended the most drastic changes in the law.
matter was referred to by me in my opening remarks on introduc-
-ing the Bill. In the result the Commission may be be congratu-
-lated on the fact that their report has been the proximate
cause
of the extensive alterations introduced into the Sanitary Law of this Colony, alterations which I believe to be of far
reaching importanee and utility, even though in many cases they
have
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