THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Ten years -ago our Medical Department cost nothing a year, for it had not been born, and we wonder, now that its' upkeep has shot up to thirty-nine thousand pounds, whether we are any the better for the expenditure, and whether we should allow it to shoot up to fifty thousand pounds a year or more. Our Masterton experience has not been happy. The Medical Department came up here, condemned our septic tank system, and wanted us to abandon the works which had cost us many thousand of pounds. "When the people would not agree to this, the borough engineer patched the fault in the sewerage works at a- comparatively trifling cost, and, as far as ■w’e are aware, the trouble is at an end. Did the Medical Department give ns good advice? We fancy not; but the enthusiasm of a Medical Department usually finds a vent in putting pressure gn other people to spend money which they cannot afford to lay out..-—“Wai-rarapa Daily Times.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2466, 2 April 1909, Page 2
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168THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2466, 2 April 1909, Page 2
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