}
50
now
threatens to become endemic in the Colony, the periodical outbreak of this disease having this year recurred without the intervening year free from disease as was the case in the previous epidemics of 1894-6 and 8.
In referring to the danger to the fortress and garrison the Principal Medical Officer reports that the following points need special attention
*
A. Insufficiency of Medical Officers in the Colonial Service for sanitary work.
The P.M.O. is of opinion that this service is so undermanned as to render it impossible to be of real use in checking disease. A single health officer for the city of Victoria is in his opinion entirely insufficient.
B. Insufficiency of Sanitary Inspectors.
The P.M.O. is also of opinion that the sub-districts for the sanitary supervision of the teeming Chinese population are too large, not sufficiently manned by the subordinate inspectors, and that efficient work cannot be done to check the spread of disease. So much is this the case that I am at present lending soldiers (volunteers for the work) as assistant inspectors.
C.
}
50
now
threatens to become endemic in the Colony, the periodi-
cal outbreak of this disease having this year recurred
without the intervening year free from disease as was the
case in the previous epidemics of 1894-6 and 8.
In referring to the danger to the fortress and
garrison the Principal Medical Officer reports that the
following points need special attention
*
A. Insufficiency of Medical Officers in the Colonial
Service for sanitary work.
The P.M.O. is of opinion that this service is so
undermanned as to render it impossible to be of real use in
checking disease. A single health officer for the city of
Victoria is in his opinion entirely insufficient.
B. Insufficiency of Sanitary Inspectors.
The P.M.0. is also of opinion that the sub districts
for the sanitary supervision of the teeming Chinese popula- tion are too large, not sufficiently manned by the subor- dinate inspectors, and that efficient work cannot be done to check the spread of disease. So much is this the case that I am at present lending soldiers (volunteers for the work)
as assistant inspectors.
C.
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