Professor Simpson, one of the experts appointed by the Colonial Office to inquire into the sanitary condition of this colony and to concert measures for the repression or mitigation of the plague, arrived here on the Sth inst. by thy P. and O. steamer Coromandel. Mr. ort Chadwick, the other Commissioner, is expected to arrive by the next English mail. Professor Simpson has been utilising the interval to make himself acquainted with the sanitary conditions in Victoria and at Kowloon.
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