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(10) He shall enquire into any offensive process of trade carried on within the District, and report on the appropriate means for the prevention of any nuisances or injury to health therefrom.

(11) He shall attend at the office of the Sanitary Authority, or at some other appointed

place, at such stated time as they may direct.

(12) He shall, from time to time, report in writing, to the Sanitary Authority, his proceedings, and the measures which may be required to be adopted for the improvement or protection of the public health in the District. He shall in like manner report with respect to the sickness and mortality within the District, so far as he has been enabled to ascertain the same.

(13) He shall keep a book or books, to be provided by the Sanitary Authority, in which he shall make an entry of his visits, and notes of his observations and instructions thereon, and also the date and nature of applications made to him, the date and result of the action taken thereon, and of any action taken on previous reports, and shall produce such book or books, whenever required, to the Sanitary Authority.

(14) He shall also prepare an annual report, to be made at the end of December in each year, comprising tabulated statements of the sickness and mortality within the District, classified according to diseases, ages, and localities, and a summary of the action taken during the year for preventing the spread of disease. The report shall also contain an account of the proceedings in which he has taken part or advised under the Public Health Act, 1875, so far as such proceedings relate to conditions dangerous or injurious to health, and also on account of the supervision exercised by him, or on his advice, for sanitary purposes over places and houses that the Sanitary Authority has power to regulate, with the nature and results of any proceedings which may have been so required and taken in respect of the same during the year. It shall also record the action taken by him, or on his advice during the year, in regard to offensive trades, bakehouses, and workshops.

(15) He shall give immediate information to the Local Government Board of any outbreak of dangerous epidemic disease within the District, and shall transmit to the Board on forms to be provided by them, a Quarterly Return of the sick- ness and deaths within the District, and also a copy of each annual and of any special report.

(16) In matters not specifically provided for in the foregoing duties, he shall observe and execute the instructions of the Local Government Board on the duties of Medical Officers of Health and all the lawful orders and directions of the Sanitary Authority applicable to his office.

True Copy

HUGH McCALLUM.

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