The only matter before the meeting the Sanitary Board, held on the 10th inst., was. the forthcoming census, concerning which the C-lonial Secretary had forwarded a copy of the'Census Report for 1891 with a view to suggestions being made in the manner of, taking'it before the end of the current year. The Medical Officer of Health, in " minute attached, suggested some few alterations in the mode of taking the census, and'stated that he had already obtained the exact. figures of the strength of the army on the 30th of June. The Pre-; sident sensibly remarked that he thought it would be desirable to include the military establishments in the census as they were at the time it is taken, because there would be a change of regiments before the close of the year.
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