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office of the Medical Officer of Health to be hereafter
appointed by the Vestry.
The 88th Section of the Local Government Act,
1888, incorporates the 191st Section of the Public
Health Act, 1875, which enacts that no person shall
be elected a Medical Officer of Health unless the
appointment and salary be approved of by the Local
Government Board; and by another Section in the
Local Government Act it is enacted that the County
Council shall, from the 31st March last, pay out
of the County fund one half of the salary of such
Medical Officer when his qualifications, appointment,
salary, and term of office are in accordance with the
Regulations of the Local Government Board.
The Board are also empowered to prescribe
regulations in regard to those Medical Officers of
Health whose salary will be wholly paid by the
Vestry.
The Order of the Local Government Board is
divided into two parts, viz.:—
Part I. Relating to every Medical Officer of
Health appointed after the 1st April, 1889, one half
of whose salary will be payable to the Vestry by the
London County Council.
Part II. To every Medical Officer of Health
appointed on and after that time whose salary will
be wholly paid by the Vestry.