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EDMONTON URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL.
REPORT
OF THE
Chief Sanitary Inspector
For the YEAR 1921.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall, Edmonton.
To the Chairman and Members of the
Edmonton Urban District Council.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my report on the work done in the
Public Health Department for the year 1921 by your Inspectors and staff.
As the Ministry of Health have asked the Medical Officer of Health for
detailed particulars of the work done by your inspectors, to be included in
his report, I have endeavoured to avoid repetition as far as possible.
In May last the three horse-drawn vehicles of the Public Health Department
were replaced by Ford motor vehicles; two of them are Ford motor
vans, lined inside with zinc, one for collecting infected bedding for disinfection,
and one for returning the bedding, etc., after disinfection.
The old horse-drawn brougham, that was used to convey patients from
hospital to their homes after recovery, has also been replaced by a Ford
motor bus.
The disinfecting station was removed from the Town Hall Yard to
Clavering's Farm in April last, and although it necessitates several more
miles each day for the vehicles to cover, the motors have overcome the
matter of distance and are certainly far more expeditious,
The old motor ambulance (Deasev) has caused me much anxiety, owing
to its many breakdowns, and the horse ambulance has had to be brought
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