Committee of outside experts and official residents to discuss the duties of a civil office, and the staff of a has? Def?, is itself open to serious objection. I do not think it should have been done without first obtaining the sanction of the S. of S.
The Committee (so far as I can grasp the rather undefined conditions existing at present) appear to bring out suggestions in the relations of the P.C.M.O. to the M.O.H.
coru that arguing M.O.H. He is really under the P.C.
The fourth Asst. Surgeon Dr. La has been appointed in the process of appointing Dr. Dane to Jonson's place. The proposal to appoint a second M.O.H. has been referred back to the Colony for further consideration, in connection with a letter from the Local Gov. Board.
? Ack. simply.
A. F.
2/3
The asst. surgeon was subsequently apptd permanently not temporarily (re tel. on 25360's Goudrelly, 34999).
can hardly criticise the appt. and constitution of this Committee as we did not criticise a similar committee (vide 10977/95).
and say sufficiently clear that there is no reason, as Chamberlain proposed, to modify the present arrangement settled in 7899/96 and our despatch thereon [under which the Medical Officer of Health is subordinated to the Sanitary Board and independent of the control of the P.C.M.O. except in the latter's capacity as a member of the Board]; as to the distribution of the work of the members of the medical dept. suggested.
report say that adheres to the view expressed in 10977/95 that the P.C.M.O. should be responsible for dividing the medical duties among the Assistant Surgeons as he thinks fit from time to time; say that with ref. to the latter part of last para of para 2 of the report that as it would generally seem desirable to arrange that no more than one medical officer should be away on leave at the same time, especially at that time of the year when plague is likely to appear, as to the penultimate and last.
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