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big city in England, where you have a Municipality,
which is elected by the ratepayers every year, they are
in all cases I think the Sanitary Authority.
Sometimes I think they have a Committee.
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They may form a sub Committee, but that is a matter of
convenience ?
Quite so.
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22 Q.
Then they are the Banitary Authority, and as a rule, 13612
they are all laymen. They are not medical men at all,
are they?
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Not unless a medical man happens to be elected.
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Q.
And they are advised by a Medical Officer of Health 3613
Yee.
And on his advice, and probably his scle advice, they 136L4
deal with Banitary matters ?
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference:-
HC.O. 537
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They dont have another doctor ✦
13626
A.
No, they deal with the Medical Officer of Health's
advice..
ib. Q.
Also, is it not a usual thing to have a Kunicipal
Engineer to deal with Sanitation ?
13626
A.
Yes,
the Borough Engineer.
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And these two men practically fill the position of the
Medical Officer of Health and Building Authority of
Hongkong ↑
A.
Yes.
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Q.
Dont you think that that is a very sound way, to work
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it, to have all the work concentrated in the one
Department ?
Certainly.
And would it not simplify the work, if we had that 13629
system here, instead of having a part of the Ordinance carried out by the Public Works Department, which is
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