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EXPANSION OF WORK IN THE PUBLIC
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
The pressure of work in the Public Health
Department during the year has been very great.
The rapid growth of the district, the industrial
development within and around its boundaries, the
prevalence of Small Pox, Scarlet Fever, and Diphtheria,
the augmentation of work from recent legislation,
have all contributed to make the year a heavy
one. One additional Sanitary Inspector has been
appointed, and two others in place of two resigned,
but the department is still understaffed, and to cope
with the work it will be necessary in the near future
further to increase it. The turning over to the
Council of the public Elementary Schools, and the
assumption of responsibility for Elementary Education
will doubtless entail additional work on the Executive
responsible for carrying out measures affecting the
public health. The Incorporated Society of Medical
Officers of Health, alive to the importance of the
conditions which the new Education Act has imposed,
have passed the following resolutions:—