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occasionally complaints that articles are kept so long
before returned, but where a great deal has to be done
a slight delay is unavoidable. The vans for collecting
and returning the bedding, etc., to the houses will
require some repairs during the ensuing year.
AMBULANCE.
This vehicle has had so much work that it is
becoming shaky. The noise and rattling and the
vibration are most trying to the patients, especially in
Enteric. It is very desirable that improvements that
have recently been introduced for these conveyances
should be added so as to bring it in accordance with
modern ideas.
Owing to the great and rapid increase of the
District (the population at the census has been found
to reach the total of 114,815), I made an application
for an assistant at the hospital. After some consideration,
a Committee of the Council recommended that
the two appointments of Medical Officer of Health and
Medical Superintendent of the hospital should be
separated; that I should give my whole time as
Medical Officer of Health, and be Consulting Physician
to the hospital. This arrangement was passed by the