pronouncement of their views as
Soon ad
may
be convenient.
4. In the meantime I have
not tendered and do not
to tender
propose to
to Her Majesty 7
ordinances no
any
advice
in respect of
and no
9
they
of 1895, Trasmuch as
imply
"the continued existence
of the Sanitary board
5. In the event of the sanitary
board
being
abolished
enclised in
No 131
your despatches the 23rd of April and no 177 of the 26th of
DRAFT.
Mr.
Mr.
MINUTE.
Mr. Fairfield.
you
Mr. Wingfield.
sanitary
pempore that the medical "department and department should be
combined and that the
head of the medical department Should be held responsible the for the Samitation of
Colorry.
to
2
am inclined
agree with you, though the
view does not seem to be
Shared
the recent committee
Mr. Bramston.
Mr Meade.
Mr. Buxton.
Marquess of Ripon.
was suggested in Lorá Ripon's despatchy No. 32 gth &T of February
last.
Which has lately reported upont
438
the medical department, and
Whose
"
report
states (page iii) that
the health officer for the colony
**Should in our
have to opinion
Connection Whatever with the
-- Medical staff prop". The paragraph
however in which there words
occur assumes the continuance of the Sanitary Board, and it
may, I think, be concludech that,
in the absence
?
O such
such a Board the principal medical office and his staff should be entrusted with and held responsible for
Somiting the clischarge of sanitary
as well as
purely
medical duties.
.6. Under the new conditions
You consider that the head
7
the medical department.
should have at least four
assistants none
J
Whom
- as had already predecess
my destabel Suggested in "ford Tripions despatch Nor 32. of the 8th of to which I have just referred