Manual for medical officers of health / by Edward Smith.

Date:
1873
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Manual for medical officers of health / by Edward Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    tar this transcription into the permanent record may be confided to any other person may be doubtful. All orders given should be in writing, and all letters, reports, and other written documents, should be copied, and properly classified and preserved. Nothing should be left to memory, and every document should be so kept that it may be found without delay. Hence not only method will be required, but properly kept indices of all documents, classified according to their nature and locality. Such documents will be public property, and the medical officer is required to produce them to the sanitary authority only; but it is probable that the clause must have a wider interpretation, and include the inspector of the Local Go- vernment Board and other official persons, if not persons in their private capacity who may be interested therein. 12. HE SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME REPORT IN WRITING TO THE SANITARY AUTHORITY HIS PROCEEDINGS AND THE MEASURES WHICH MAY REQUIRE 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. Whilst no specific period is mentioned, it is desirable that he should report his proceedings to every meeting of the sanitary authority; but such reports might ordinarily consist of his book of proceedings, or of a copy of such book m the same form. When any action is to be taken by the sanitary authority, he should, by a separate memorandum call attention to his entries and recommendations thereon As the time of the sanitaiy authority will be limited and fuHy
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