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KNILL, Mayor.
A Common Council holden in the Chamber of
the Guildhall of the City of London, on
Thursday, the 23rd day of June, 1910.
THE Court proceeded to consider the following Report of the
Sanitary Committee delivered in on the 9th instant, and then
adjourned and ordered to be printed:—
On the Reference of the 5th ultimo with regard to the Annual
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1909, again directing
attention to the following paragraph therein, viz. (see page 10):—
"It is to be feared that matters connected with the public
"health will be neglected or treated as of minor importance
"in the councils of the nation until the creation of a Minister
"of Public Health is advocated by all parties;"
stating that the Committee are in sympathy with the opinion of the
Medical Officer, and recommending that the said Report be printed
and circulated amongst the Members of the Court as usual, and
that a copy thereof be forwarded to the Local Government Board,
the London County Council, the Metropolitan Borough Councils,
and others.
Motion—To agree with the Committee in their Report ?
Amendment—That the Report of the Medical Officer of Health
be printed and circulated as usual, but the Court must not be
taken as expressing any opinion in regard to the suggestion of
the Medical Officer as to the creation of a Minister of Public
Health ?
Carried in the Affirmative.
Question as amended—Resolved in the Affirmative, and
Ordered accordingly.
BELL.