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health in respect of whose salary payment will be
made by the County Council.
The Board are also empowered to prescribe
regulations in regard to the qualification and duties
of a medical officer of health, no portion of whose
salary will be so paid.
The Board have accordingly issued an
Order containing regulations with regard to the
matters above mentioned, and two copies of it
are enclosed.
The Order is divided into two parts, Part
I. relating to every medical officer of health appointed
on or after the 1st of April, 1889, one half of whose
salary will be payable to the local authority by the
London County Council, and Part II. to every
medical officer of health appointed on or after
the date referred to, no part of whose salary will be
payable by the London County Council.
In Part II. the duties only of the medical
officer of health are prescribed; but Part I. deals
with the appointment, tenure of office, and remuneration,
as well as with the duties of any medical officer
of health to whom that Part applies.
It will be observed that before a local
authority proceed to the appointment of a medical