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The Medical Officers of Health, in concluding these
general remarks, desire to direct attention to the
amount of sanitary work now performed throughout the large
area of the District in which they exercise their functions.
It is almost needless to call to mind the fact that the
duties of a Health Officer necessarily and very largely
increase every year, not merely by the expansion of his
ordinary routine work of collecting daily increasing statistical
data, and making fortnightly returns and annual
reports, but by the creation of much extra labour in
repeatedly visiting insanitary localities, and in furnishing
special reports upon matters oftentimes of the greatest
importance in their bearings upon anticipated litigation
and magisterial interference. The Medical Officers briefly
allude to this matter in this place that they may avail
themselves of the opportunity of saying that, in assisting
to carry out the views of the Board as to the future
sanitation which the enormous increase of the population
is certain to necessitate, they trust and believe they will
receive the cordial support of the authorities, as well as
that of the ratepayers and inhabitants generally.