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Appendix 2 to Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Memorandum by Medical Officer of Health in regard
to the appointment of a Superintendent of the
Sanitary Department.
The objects for which a Superintendent is needed are:—
1st, To ensure due supervision of the large Sanitary Staff
which the Vestry have sanctioned, and will soon be in
active work, and to regulate and control their daily duties
so that these shall be efficiently performed and all items of
sanitary work shall receive due yet proportionate attention;
and 2nd, to assist the Medical Officer of Health.
There is room for difference of opinion as to the kind
of officer who should be appointed But it is obvious that,
in order that the post should be efficiently filled, he should
be a man who is well acquainted with all the duties required
of Sanitary Inspectors, and all the laws regulating them,
and at the same time a man whom the Inspectors could
look up to, and could consult and obey with confidence.
There are three classes of men whose fitness for such a