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EXTRACT FROM THE ORDER OF THE LOCAL
GOVERNMENT BOARD.
23rd March, 1891.
Duties.
Art. 18. The following shall be the duties of the Medical
Officer of Health in respect of the District for which he is
appointed.
(1). He shall inform himself as far as practicable respecting
all influences affecting or threatening to affect injuriously
the public health within the District.
(2). He shall inquire into and ascertain by such means as
are at his disposal the causes, origin and distribution
of diseases within the District, and ascertain to what
extent the same have depended on conditions capable
of removal or mitigation.
(14). He shall also make an annual report to the Sanitary
Authority, up to the end of December in each year,
comprising a summary of the action taken, or which
he has advised the Sanitary Authority to take, during
the year for preventing the spread of disease, and an
account of the sanitary state of his District generally
at the end of the year. The report shall also contain
an account of the inquiries which he has made as to
conditions injurious to health existing in the District,
and of the proceedings in which he has taken part or
advised under any Statute, so far as such proceedings
relate to those conditions ; and also an account