Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the Colony on the public health ... / Cape of Good Hope.
- Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Department of Public Health.
- Date:
- [1905]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the Colony on the public health ... / Cape of Good Hope. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![CAPE OF GOOD HOPE Report on the Public Health of the Colony for the Two Calendar Years 1904 and 1905, together with Reports of District Surgeons and Local Authorites for the same period. fimfiiteb to botfe ponses of parliament bn Commanir of fis feellenxg % iobemor 1906. PART I. Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the Colony. 55, Parliament Street, Cape Town, 12th April, 1906. To the Honourable The Colonial Secretary. Sir,—I have the honour to present a Report on the Public Health covering the Two Calendar Years, 1904 and 1905. I. Preliminary. It is necessary to explain the reason for reporting on these two years together. By a Resolution of the House of Assembly, passed during the Session of 1904, it was ordered that the Annual Reports of the Civil Service for presentation to Parliament should, for the •future, cover the Financial Year ending on the 30th June, instead of the Calendar Year ending on the 31st December, which, until then, had been the annual period for reports. This altered arrangement necessitated the presentation of reports for the abbreviated period of the first six months of the year 1904, so that subsequent reports, commencing from the 1st July, 1904, would be for the full period of a Financial Year. Such Half-Yearly Reports were issued, but before the time arrived for making the first Annual Report on the Financial Year, the impracticability of the new arrangement was so decisively demonstrated that Parliament, during the Session of 1905, decided to revert to the former practice of reporting on the Calendar Year. It thus again became necessary, in order to main¬ tain an unbroken series of Records, to frame reports for a half-year [G. 39—1906.] b](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31482016_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
