218 ESSENTIALS OF VETERINARY LAW 
favor of our adoption of some modification of a 
plan used in England to assist in securing good 
service. 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 
holding their positions as local officers. It is true 
