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that many veterinary inspectors are practitioners, 

 engaged in private practice, and devoting only 

 part time to the governmental duties. At pres- 

 ent this is probably unavoidable to some degree; 

 but the same arguments which show the ineffi- 

 ciency of a medical officer of health who is also 

 engaged in private practice must also prove the 

 inadvisibility of part-time govemmental veterina- 

 rians where the arrangement can well be avoided. 



*'No progress at all can be made towards ob- 

 taining a skilled democracy, unless the democracy 

 are willing that the work which requires skill 

 should be done by those who possess it."''' 



174. Organization of a Health Department — 

 State. Copying the methods which have proven 

 successful in efficient commercial organization, the 

 head of the department should be responsible for 

 every portion of the work, and for the efficiency 

 of every sub-officer, and employee. The work 

 should be divided into several bureaus, each of 

 which should have at its head a man specially 

 qualified in that branch. He may be assisted by 

 sub-heads, each responsible for a portion of the 

 work. The division may be made according to 

 subject or to territory, and it should be so ar- 

 ranged as to reduce duplication of labor to a mini- 

 mum. The same bacteriological laboratory will 

 serve for the investigation of animal and human 

 diseases, for the same principles govern. The 

 department should be interested in study as well 

 as administration, and a very important portion 

 of its scope should be found in education, particu- 



" Mill, Eepresentative Gov- 

 ernment, 248. 



