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penditure on this account: 14. Registrar General's De partment.

As regards the new ap pointment of Euperinten. "dent of Statistics," the facts

follows:

are as follows:-

In July 1897

July 1897. Mr. Lockhart. suggested that Dr Clark, Medical Officer of Health, should be appointed Super- intendent of Statistics in the Registrar General's de- partment and the follow-

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ing passage occurred in his minute, "it is not intend-

ed that any pay shall be "attached for the present to "the office of Superintendent of Statistics, as it is not pos. sible to state now what ex- tra work, the duties of the

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post will impose upon the "Medical Officer of Health. "But after the experiment "has been a trial, the Regis-

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trar General will be able

to make a recommendation

"with