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TO THE
PUBLIC HEALTH COMMITTEE.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
In accordance with vour standing instructions
I herewith beg to submit the usual Annual Report on
the work of the Health Department of the Council
for the year ending December 31st, 1908.
Thirteenth
Annual Report
At the end of a very full and varied year's work
there is some little difficulty in deciding what particular
items to select for especial consideration, and
what to include as mere details in the mass of totals
and figures that go to record and represent the operations
of the staff for another year. All are important
in some respect or another, but neither time nor
space permit of all being dealt with at length.
items tor
special mention
In view of the uninformed strictures and very feeble
attempts at criticising last year's report by two or
three persons totally unacquainted with either the
duties or the responsibilities of a Sanitary Authority,
and which want of knowledge did not prevent and
most probably induced their rushing into correspondence
over matters evidently beyond their scope, it
Reply to
uninformed
Critics.