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Objections.
There are on the other hand many drawbacks
to the part-time employment of several officers to
do work which can be accomplished by the employment
of a lesser number of all-time officials. This
is especially so where each part-time officer is also
engaged in private professional work in the same
locality in which his public duties are discharged.
Medical men have generally viewed with distrust
any system under which their private patients were
officially seen by practitioners also engaged in
private general practice in the same locality. On
public grounds this sentiment should be respected
not only because there should be harmony and
friendly relations between the medical practitioners
of the district, and the Council's Medical Officials,
but also because whatever is apt even as an indirect
result of official action, to disturb private professional
relations is also calculated to render unpopular the
official action taken. And the success of any scheme
is to be assured only by avoiding such sources of
friction.
Again it will be found difficult to find among
the local general practitioners a sufficient number
who, in addition to possessing the invaluable