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With the exception of the Medical Officers of Health the Plague Staff by whom the work of dealing with the epidemic has been carried out has been sub- stantially that laid down in the scheme of organisation of Plague Staff drawn up by the Medical of Officer Health in January last.
Dr. CLARK, Medical Officer of Health, took leave from the Colony in March and Dr. BARNETT, the first appointed of the two Assistant Medical Officers of Health for Plague work arrived in the Colony on April 9th.
Dr. MACFARLANE who was appointed next did not arrive till the epidemic was virtually over. Dr. BARNETT has given great assistance not only during the height of the epidemic but also in collecting various information and statistics which I have embodied in this Report.
The scheme of a Special Plague Staff has on the whole worked very well; the First Class Inspectors especially have worked hard and conscientiously. The supplementing of the staff by temporary European Inspectors has not been such a success as could have been wished. With certain honourable exceptions such temporarily engaged men have proved a failure and it is not proposed to engage this class of Inspector in the future, as they often require constant supervision to keep them at their work.
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