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The statutory powers now enjoyed by Sanitary Authorities to
efficiently safeguard the Public Health are ample, but the anomaly
remains that in growing districts like yours, the whole salaries of all the
the Assistant Sanitary Inspectors haye to be paid for by you.
A simple clause in the Act might have relieved you of the penalties
incurred for its efficient administration.
Little change has occurred during the year in the personnel engaged
in the Public Health work of the district.
The office accommodation for those engaged in clerical work and for
those engaged in the medical inspection of school children is totally
inadequate, and in consequence the work is much hampered.
Apart from the keeping of the various records and registers, etc.,
6,697 letters were sent out and 3,372 persons called.
I believe you are well served by all your officers, they are good and
loyal workers, and my relations with them have been most cordial and
I hope mutually agreeable, and on their behalf and my own, I offer our
best thanks to the Council for the courtesy and consideration always
shown to us.
I beg to remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
J. J. CLARKE.