[Report 1944-1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Salisbury (New Sarum) City.

  • Salisbury (England). City Council.
Date:
1945
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Credit: [Report 1944-1945] / Medical Officer of Health, Salisbury (New Sarum) City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -33- shirts v;hich v/ere granted hy the Council because I found that of the 22 players in the so-called Municipal teams, only tv/o were actually employed hy the Municipality. Next season I will talce steps to see that natives plhying in Municipal teams are only natives employed hy the Municipality. The football ground at the Compound continues to ho very popular and I hope next season to get sufficient players for at least one team from the Compound to enter in the lea,guo»* GENERAL. Tho ticket system v/as passed hy Council during the year. The Engineers Department are now operating; vory satisfactorily under the new system* There has heen a delay in transferring other departments to the system ov\/-ing to the failure on the part of the printers in supplying our needs. Should supplies he forthcoming at an early date, I anticipate completing all departments hy the end of Augaist, exrra Ty/o Communal Kitchen natives apx^ear to prefer cook hoys state that it t^cpe of pot. steara cookers v/ere installed in the Those are the round type and the the meal cooked in ,s easier to stir the them. Tho meal in this Sky lights have heen fitted in the roofs of tho Compound harracks, and is a vast improvement. Some months ago tip-type ruhhish hins v/ere installed in the Comp)ound, one opposite each room and are also a great improvement on the old typo of ruhhish hin and allow for easier handling. It Y/ill ho seen that taking things Y/hole there is a.n improvement in tho general position of the natives\ Their wages are increasing, their food is good and the housing on the whole fairly satisfactory. This d.oes not .>^t their conditions do not need further improvement. ^ p all round, hut I feel that this improvement must go hand in o moan th; The re is. i n my opi ni on, he a'p i , hut hand with improved output of work. There is,.as I have said, improvement in the output of labour, hut there is always the tendency to revert hack to the old slack ways because this is the easiest v/ay. It is extremely important, in my opinion,' for Heads and Buh-Heads to frequently remind Europeans in c.jarge of native labour of the importance of keeping the native Yip to scratch and the importance of v;eeding out the slackers and replacing them hy better hoys. It is only in this way t]''at good gangs can he built up and maintained. Number, /