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intelligently and loyally performed. A sanitary inspector's duties
are not always agreeable, and, I am compelled to say, have often
to be done amidst considerable discouragement. For I fear the
public have not even yet learnt to regard health as a matter of
infinitely greater moment than rates and taxes.
There are few things of greater importance in your sanitary
machinery than constancy in your band of workers. Constant
change always means loss to the department, for a new man has
to learn his work, and time is lost in learning it.
I remain,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
C. MEYMOTT TIDY, M.B.,
Medical Officer of Health.
30th June, 1882.