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enlarging a little on that,

r Shelton Hooper:- Following on that,

you think that if they were a little amalgamated the Board had the M. 0. H. ae head of the Hygienic, and all work pertaining to infectious diseases, and other diseases that come properly under the ken of Medical

Officers of Health at home, and an Executive Engineer, also attached to the Department, who should be responsible for all structural things, and pansing of

plans, and floors, in fact everything that would come within the ken of an Architect, - that that system

would work better than having the two Depariments

separate, as at present ? I mean a qualified Executive

Engineer, not a Sanitary Surveyor, you know.

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But still I think you must have just one head of the

Department, call him P. C. M. 0. or Sanitary Commission-

er, like they do in India, `call him President of the

Sanitary Authority, or what you like, instead of having

several Officers in the Department, none of them

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subordinate to the other.

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Dont you think it would be well to make them subordinate

to the Board ?

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the Board is not an entity. The Board meets once

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a fortnight,

and the Board cant decide, like an

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individual can, small points that are brought to it to

decide, hour after hour and day after day.

Then, how at home do Municipalities, which have a

Council we will say with a Yayor presiding. That council is advised on Civil Engineering questions, by its Civil Engineer, and on its Medical questions, by

it. Medical Officer, You should be the head of the

Medical Pepartment, and the Civil Engineer should be

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