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Inspector REIDIE, who has been in charge of the machinery since the retirement of Inspector GRIMBLE, reports that the boiler and jacket are in fair working order, but that the boiler will need to be thoroughly overhauled and surveyed when it is removed to the new building which is now being erected below the Caine Road.

The apparatus was in use on 259 days of the

year.

STAFF.

Early in the year the staff was re-organized by the classification of the Inspectors of Nuisances into three grades, namely :--First, Second and Third Class, and by the addition of five Inspectors, while the retirement of the Senior Inspector, Mr. J. R. GERMAIN, who had been on leave for more than two years, enabled the Government to obtain the services of a well qualified Chief Inspector from England.

One of the First Class Inspectors (Inspector REIDIE) whose special duty it was to disinfect and cleanse all plague-infected houses, unfortunately contracted this disease, but I am glad to state that he made a good recovery, and will shortly proceed to England on leave; otherwise the health of the staff has been good during the year, and a large amount of good work has been done, outside the specially onerous duties which an extensive outbreak of Bubonic Fever necessarily throws upon all the officers of the Board.

During the year Inspectors CLERIHEW, GRIMBLE, MCDONALD, and PHILLIPS have left the service, the two former retiring on pension by reason of age and ill-health.

The following is a list of the Inspectors of Nuisances in the employ of the Board at the end of the year:

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Chief Inspector of Nuisances,

Mr. J. H. DANDY.

First Class Inspectors.

Inspector J. REIDIE.

F. FISHER,

L. BRETT, (acting).

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G. C. BURNETT, (acting).

Second and Third Class Inspectors.

Inspector H. KNIGHT.

No. 1 Health District, ....Insp. W. FINCHER.

No. 9 Health District, ....Insp. G. HOGGARTH.

H. WILMER.

J. MCMICHAEL.

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C. W. BRETT.

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D. MCKENZIE,

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W. H. WOOLLEY.

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E. ROGERS.

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J. MILLS.

13

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J. HOOD.

14

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F. ALLEN.

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W. ROBERTSON.

A. C. LANGLEY.

R. FENTON.

I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your most obedient Servant,

FRANCIS W. CLARK,

Medical Officer of Health.