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The Chairman:-

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Er Humphreys:-

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says a house is properly limewashed, the Senior Inspector need not go, but before a prosecution is instituted, it is for the Senior Inspector to visit the house and verify the statement ?

Certainly. It was instructed both of those that had been done properly, and of those that had not.

Were they not instructed to visit every house, whether 4438 it was done properly, or whether it was not done properly ?

Certainly, that would follow.

Was there anything else in the Sanitary Department besides limewashing and concreting ?

At Yes, the system is bad. We have all got into our wrong

places, in my opinion. I think it is not right that a

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medical man should spend half his time about inspecting

building plans.

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of which he knows nothing?

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Nothing. Of course, he improves as he goes on. What else?

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A lot follows on that one point. The fact of a doctor being in the office, checking plans, robs him of the opportunity of superintending the outdoor work.

Which doctor are you referring to ?

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The yedical Officer of Health. My opinion is that if the Building Authority is not capable of dealing with plans, then the Medical Officer of Health cannot help him much, and beyond that, it is robbing the Department of a valuable nan, in connection with work which he does understand. That is, trying to rid the Colony of the spidemics, investigating matters, superintending the Inspectors's work, and leaving plans to an Engineer?

Is that all ?

No, I am bitterly opposed to the enormous amount of

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