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Figures like these should arrest some attention.
When it is possible to reduce your general death rate
by upwards of one-third and your infantile death rate
in a greater degree, and to show by such a tally in
human lives as these figures represent in a population
of 130,000, one can rest fairly content that both the
Committee and its staff stand justified.
In connection with the question of what is some- Financial cost of working
times termed economy, I would with your permission
venture to direct attention to one fact, that hitherto
seems to have been lost sight of. In spite of the
numerous additional duties already referred to, duties in
connection with the Notification of Births Act, the
notification of Tuberculosis, the notification of Measles,
the treatment of Verminous Children, and a host of
kindred matters, all providing additional work for the
Sanitary Office, it is a fact that we are carrying out all
this extra work without making any additional demands
upon the Council's Exchequer.
Thanks to the lowering of the original notifiable Saving on original duties providing for new,
Infectious Diseases, the saving effected in connection
with Combined Drainage, to the absence of costly
unsuccessful legal proceedings; the total cost of
working the Department as a whole is substantially
less now than it was some ten years ago.
I have the honour to be,
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen
Your most obedient servant,
JOHN FOOT,
Certificate Sanitary Institute, 1888.
Member Royal Institute Public Health, 1895.
Chief Sanitary Inspector, 1895.