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To the Chairman and Members of the
Bar net Rural District Council.
Mr. Chairman, Madam and Gentlemen,
I have much pleasure in presenting my Annual Report on
the health of the district for the year 1939.
Prior to July 1939, the Council's Engineer and Surveyor
(Mr. A. J. Wilshire) was also Sanitary Inspector but relinquished
this latter office upon the appointment of a whole-time Sanitary
Inspector and Meat and Food Inspector. Such an appointment
became necessary in view of the rapid development of the
district.
The report has been prepared and arranged on the lines
indicated by the Minister of Health in Circular 1961. Sections
D and E, however, dealing respectively with Housing and
Inspection and Supervision of Food, have been omitted from the
body of my report and are fully dealt with in the report of the
Sanitary Inspector.
Publication of the report could not be proceeded with as
early as usual, this year, owing to the fact that the RegistrarGeneral
was unable to provide the usual statistics for 1939
until October, 1940.
Much has been accomplished during the year and the improvements
effected by the Sanitary Inspector (details of which
will be found on page 23) must be regarded as particularly
commendable when it is borne in mind that a considerable
portion of his time has been devoted to duties as Ambulance
Officer and Billeting Officer. Original inspections under the
Housing Consolidated Regulations have been abandoned since
the outbreak of war, but other routine work of the department
is proceeding as in normal times.
I am,
Your obedient Servant,
Charles F. Hardie.