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Dr. CLARK.-He is a servant of the Municipality, and is the administrator of his own Department. It is the same in Singapore and in Shanghai.
Colonel HUGHES.-How would Dr. ATKINSON interfere with you if he was Prin- cipal Civil Medical Officer ?
Dr. CLARK.-I have not said he would interfere in any way.
Colonel HUGHES.-What is the great objection to being subordinate to the Prin- cipal Civil Medical Officer; there must be a head to everything?
Dr. CLARK.-I take it the Medical Officer of Health is the head of his own
Department, or should be. He is the man who has had experience in Sanitary work.
Colonel HUGHES. Who should be report to?
Dr. CLARK. To the Sanitary Board.
Colonel HUGHES.-If there is no Sanitary Board ?
Dr. CLARK.-Then he should report to the Government through the Colonial Secretary.
Colonel HUGHES.-Now the President of the Sanitary Board is the Principal Civil Medical Officer.
Dr. CLARK.-He happens to be at present.
Colonel HUGHES.-You report to him as President of the Sanitary Board?
Dr. CLARK.-Yes.
Colonel HUGHES.-Not as Principal Civil Medical Officer ?
Dr. CLARK.—No.
Colonel HUGHESs.-Don't you think that as long as the Sanitary Board exists the Principal Civil Medical Officer ought to be always President?
Dr. CLARK.-I think it is an excellent arrangement in some respects.
Colonel HUGHES.-Should the Medical Officer of Health be President?
Dr. CLARK.-No. I think if the Principal Civil Medical Officer is not the President of the Sanitary Board that an unofficial member (a business man) might be, and I think so because it would probably make the Sanitary Board more popular.
Colonel HUGHES.—A business man ?
Dr. CLARK.-Yes.
Colonel HUGHES.-A business man knows nothing about sanitation.
Dr. CLARK.-He would know as much about sanitation as President as he does as a member of the Board. The Chairman of the Sanitary Committee in England, which is considered the most important Committee of each Municipal Council, is usually a business man.
Colonel HUGHES.-Does that make it right?
Dr. CLARK.-No, Sir. I say it is usual.
The Chairman. You have not stated your objections to the Principal Civil Medical Officer being President of the Sanitary Department. You said you had certain objections; you have not told us what they were.
Dr. CLARK.-They are as follows, Sir, but with your permission, I should first like to be allowed to correct an error which appears several times in the account of the evidence given by Dr. ATKINSON. I am there described as "Medical Officer of Health for the Town"; this is perhaps intended to distinguish more clearly my office from
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