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295 of the 6th. of September last I have to say that my
-principal objection to the proposed appointment was that
under the Bill providing for it powers too great and too
arbitrary were placed in the hands of one man. It appeared
to me to be more satisfactory that such powers should continue
to be exercised by the Board itself, which is in a position by
delegation of certain of its powers to the Medical Officer of
Health to prevent unnecessary and undesirable delays by
Iprevious reference to it where immediate action is of importance
In order to relieve the Medical Officer of Health
of official correspondence and other administrative duties I
propose that the Principal Civil Medical Officer, who is
President of the Board, shall spend some hours each day in
conducting business at the Sanitary Board Offices, being re-
lieved of the direct charge of the Goverment Civil Hospital
to which he shall in future stand in the relation of a Visiting
Physician.
On the details of this arrangement I shall address
you in a separate Despatch. The change cannot be made until
the return of Dr. Bell.
5.
Section 18. It was found desirable to
give the Board power to punish by fineits Subordinate Officers.
Precedents exist in Section 21 of the Post Office Consolidation
Ordinance No. 24 of 1900, and in the Civil Medical Staff
Discipline Ordinance No. 11 of 1901, under which the Postmaster-
General and the Principal Civil Medical Officer have power to
punish by fine the Subordinate Officers in their Departments.
Section 46. Messrs. Chadwick and Simpson's
original