CO129-531-13 Proposed reorganization of the medical and sanitary services 18-11-1930 - 7-7-1933 — Page 12

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NFF CONFIDENTIAL (2)

(2)

5 NOV 1931

OFFI

في

GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG,

2nd October, 1931.

Sir,

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt

of Lord Passfield's confidential despatch of the 18th

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of August, 1931, on the subject of the reorganisation proposals of Dr. Wellington.

2.

As a first step towards the consideration of those proposals I decided towards the end of last year that a small "ad hoc" Committee under the chairmanship of Mr. C.G. Alabaster, Attorney General, should be appointed to advise the Government on any steps which they may consider necessary on the recommendations

contained in the Report in question.

3.

This Committee has submitted two interim

reports with recommendations for legislation in the matter of Birth and Death Registration, and of Food

and Drugs.

There are also in draft two bills

intended to separate Sanitation from Building

Construction in place of their combination in the

present Public Health and Buildings Ordinance No.1 of

1903.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

J. H. THOMAS, M.P.,

&c.,

&C.

&C.,

4.

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