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favor of our adoption of some modification of a 

 plan used in England to assist in securing good 

 ser^dce. There is in London a body called the 

 *' Local Government Board." It was created by 

 Parliament to look after matters specially pertain- 

 ing to localities. Health administration is under 

 its control. Realizing that the smaller communi- 

 ties cannot afford to pay for the services of a com- 

 petent sanitarian, the Local Government Board 

 agrees to pay one-half of the salaries of certain 

 officers of health and inspectors. It leaves the ap- 

 pointment of these officials to the local authori- 

 ties, but it stipulates that no officer partly sup- 

 ported by the Local Government Board shall be 

 appointed or removed without the consent of the 

 Local Government Board, and it further requires 

 that appointees must present evidence that they 

 are qualified for the position, and that they will 

 devote full time to the service. 



The English experience is emphatically to the 

 effect that practitioners engaged in private work 

 are inefficient public officers. The Local Govern- 

 ment Board therefore makes the requirement em- 

 phatic that the appointee shall not be engaged in 

 private practice. In small communities, in order 

 to make it possible to secure such whole-time offi- 

 cers, it suggests that the office be combined with 

 that of medical inspection of schools, or some sim- 

 ilar position. Sometimes it arranges a combina- 

 tion of territory, so that one officer may look after 

 a more extended area. 



It does not appear that veterinary inspectors 

 are thus partially supported by the state, while 

 liolding their positions as local officers. It is true 



