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To the Chairman and Members of the General Purposes Committee.
Mrs. Webb and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit my Annual Report for the Year 1922. The Report
this year differs in its arrangement and is much shorter than previous
Reports. This change is in accordance with the instructions issued
by the Ministry of Health in Circular 359.
The Ministry, in the above-mentioned Circular require that
annual reports on public health matters shall consist of what are
called "ordinary reports for four years, and every fifth year of a
"survey" report. Ordinary reports will be "of a more simple
character."
The Quinquennial Reports will be more full and detailed, and will
review the progress of the preceding five years. In this way unnecessary
repetition from year to year will be avoided and at the same
time all essential matters affecting the Public Health will be given
due consideration.
I have the honour to be,
Your obedient Servant,
J. M. CLEMENTS.