In every board-school drill forms part of the programme. I need not
dwell on these subjects, but must pass to the sanitary officers and
offices.
There is in the city one principal sanitary officer, a duly qualified
medical man elected by the Municipal Council, whose sole duty it is to
watch over the sanitary welfare of the place. Under him, as sanitary
officers, are all the medical men who form the poor law medical staff.
To him these make their reports on vaccination and every matter
of health pertaining to their respective districts; to him every
registrar of births and deaths forwards copies of his registration
returns; and to his office are sent, by the medical men generally,
registered returns of the cases of sickness prevailing in the
district. His inspectors likewise make careful returns of all the
known prevailing diseases of the lower animals and of plants. To his
office are forwarded, for examination and analysis, specimens of foods
and drinks suspected to be adulterated, impure, or otherwise
unfitted for use. For the conduction of these researches the sanitary
superintendent is allowed a competent chemical staff. Thus, under this
central supervision, every death, every disease of the living world in
the district, and every assumable cause of disease, comes to light and
is subjected, if need be, to inquiry.
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