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Sanitary Department to the Medical Department, he preferred
the former.
6.
This view seemed to connote a civilian head, who would co-ordinate the work of the various departments employed in municipal work. This was incorporated as a temporary measure in the recommendations which formed the latter part of Chapter VI of the Report of the Director of Medical & m82752
Sanitary Services referred to; the Sanitary Board, when these recommendations were referred to them, passed a resolution generally favourable to the scheme but again with a protest against such items as seemed to threaten diminution
of its powers.
7.
This brought into view a further difficulty, regard-
ing the place in the scheme to be assigned to the Director of Medical & Sanitary Services.
The decision against anything in
the nature of a municipality having been taken, and the Sanitary Department and the Advisory Board remaining part of the
machinery of the Central Government, it follows that this officer could not be outside the Board and represented on it
by a subordinate, as in the Malayan municipalities: he in
fact, corresponds both to the Director of Medical & Sanitary
Services in Malaya and to the comparatively junior officer who works under the municipality or its commissioner.
But it was
felt by Dr. Wellington to be unfitting that he should accept membership of the Board under a lay head who must be his junior;
his original suggestion that the health activities should be
controlled by a Health Board over which he should preside was
unpalatable to the present unofficial members of the Board as tending to diminish their scope and control; and the suggestion was therefore put forward by Dr. Wellington to the effect that the Colonial Secretary be president of the new council. This, though solving difficulties so far as his status was concerned,