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been appointed as Deputy Sanitary Commissioners. The 

 remaining three appointments have not yet been filled up. 



In addition thirty-nine first-class and 104 second-class health 

 officers are to be appointed to the municipalities, and in order to 

 assist local Governments in organising the service a recurring 

 grant of 2*66 lakhs of rupees has been sanctioned from Imperial 

 revenues, in addition to an expenditure of Rs. 25,560 per annum 

 in the North-West Frontier Province which will be met by the 

 Imperial Government. 



The Government of India are meeting the cost of the new 

 appointments of Deputy Sanitary Commissioners on the scale 

 sanctioned for Indians and are giving a subvention amounting 

 to half of the pay of first and second-class health officers. 



This to some sanitary enthusiasts may not seem sufficient 

 provision, but I would point out that one must cut one's coat 

 according to the cloth, and it is not sound policy to tax the clothes 

 off people's backs in order to provide them with the benefits of 

 sanitation. As one of the Indian delegates said at a recent 

 conference, " You must feed us before you educate us," and the 

 same remark applies here. Moreover, when funds are limited it 

 is unwise to spend on personnel money which would be better 

 applied in remedying obvious sanitary defects. An expensive 

 supervisory staff is hopelessly handicapped if there be no money 

 for carrying out the recommendations submitted. I think that 

 what I have written suffices to justify the title of this article, and 

 proves that the Government of India, the medical services, and 

 the public are all alive to the value of preventive measures, and 

 that we fully realise the important part which will be played by 

 sanitation in the medicine of the future. 



