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the direction and supervision of the Medical Officer of
Health.
(3) That the records of the inspections should be
prepared under the direction and supervision of the
Medical Officer of Health, and Report by the Inspector of
Nuisances with the clerical assistance of the Clerk in the
Public Health Department; also such records be kept on
the card system at present existing in that Department.
(4) That a report prepared by the Inspector of
Nuisances be submitted to the ordinary meetings of the
Public Health Committee by the Medical Officer of Health,
who shall call the attention of the Committee to any
action within their powers which may be necessary or
desirable."
The recommendations contained in this report were adopted by
the Council without alteration, and are already put into actual
working.
It is not necessary for me to do more than draw attention to
the extremely important character of the Board's regulations and
to the very practical steps taken by the Council to give them due
effect.
In my Report for 1909 I mentioned that a card register of the
district was then already in course of preparation, and it is to this
register that the sub-committee alluded in their report. It required
only the slightest modification to comply with the Local Government
Board's requirements, and the work is therefore well in hand.
The Water Supply of the district is quite satisfactory,
though every year one or two old wells have to be closed. In my
last report reference was made to the state of the Pale Well and