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to succeed Dr. Jordan would _~ materially add to the efficiency
and reserve
force of the Medi
new
en
cal staff, whereas further quiries have revealed not only the certainty that the time of the proposed
Officer would be so fully occupied in the performance of the duties of "Health Officer as to preclude him from rendering any
assistance outside those duties,
but also the probability that the medical work of the port
might
onerous.
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for
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might prove too
officer to perform single-
an
handed,
time
even
though his entire
is a
-con-
were devoted to it. In this latter connection I should state that not only siderable portion of D. Jordan's time occupied with the duties of Health Officer, but also near by the whole time of his
sistant, Dr Bell.
as
In the above circumstances
and in view of the extra ex- penditure that would be in-
volved