At the usual meeting of the Sanitary Board, held on the 26th instant, the principal topic of interest was a proposal' by the Hon.
Ormsby that the Government be asked to offer a premium for the best design for a block of Chinese tenement houses in accordance with modern views of sanitation to be erected on one of the vacant lots in the resumed aren of Taipingshan, and, further, to proceed to erect the building in accordance with the selected plan. He said the Government had a considerable number
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