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of Health should be appointed: that the appointment should
be made in accordance with the provisions of the Local
Government Act, 1888, and the General Order of that
Board relative to Medical Officers of Health, dated 29th
March, 1888, under which, on approval of the appointment
by the Local Government Board, and on compliance
with the rules and regulations promulgated in the Order
referred to, the District Board is entitled to claim of
the London County Council a recoupment of one-half of
the salary of such Medical Officer ; that the salary should
be £200 per annum, and that the duties should be as
defined by the Local Government Board in their General
Order above mentioned, and by the District Board. It
was also resolved that steps should be taken to appoint a
properly qualified person to fill the office of Public Analyst
under the "Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875,"; and that he
should be paid a salary of £75 per annum; the minimum
number of samples to be analyzed to be 150, and a fee of
10s. 6d. per sample for any above that number in the course
of a year. The several offices were advertised accordingly:
thirty-six applications for the Medical Officership and fifteen
for the office of Analyst being received; and, on the 19th
February last, after the number in each case had been
reduced to six, a ballot was taken, with the result that Dr.
Jas. Herron, above referred to, was elected to be the Medical
Officer of Health, and Mr. Richard Bodmer, F.I.C., of the
Chemical Laboratory, Guy's Hospital, was elected to be
the Public Analyst for the District, subject in each case to
the approval of the Local Government Board. Both appointments
were subsequently approved by the Local Government
Board, and the formal appointment of Medical Officer took
place on the 5th March last. The London Count) Council
have consented to contribute a moiety of the salan of the
Medical Officer, as applied for, annually at Michaelmas.
Gas
Examiner.
With regard to the vacancy in the office of Gas Examiner,
inasmuch as, on inquiry, it was found that the Lou
County Council appoint and employ Gas Examiners pursuant