DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17984, 30 January 1924, Page 9

DEP A RTMENT OF HEALTH.

dE centk aUSATION 01 D ACTIVITIES. -tpr>s announcement SflJifcTE''® 5 lS soc :i no S

u-FLLINGTON, January . ~I IU ;ir.nomi>'cment dealing "" !T": \ l'Hth • vas !,K "' e Hc:ilth !»*" we ). The reor^:inisat ion ..... p-iblic hospitals' shie primer.t's n-livitics. as now- by > - iir „ ct with the hu.4l.ii:!.! boar';-. health side of »!«■• ilcsircti to P»</»"> a wore effective policy an! co-ordination. ami .1 the neces-ut may i'S'Cthen th '' •"V: ,T< r ! ,4 pvrpuse. The reorcanisa.ion rfi cime tally into " :l uil'l will he US rollows: ifh. April Ist. If-'-', the i'oiaia-<vlT'W'r.--:.rdt:,d as .1iv...,-. ...to L Lealtl. district?. havin, ' h-j-V-K at Auckland. tfdi.ig-■' E&fcck, -V"> Duned.n rw|ri-ctn»-1.. . TiWti't ofli.'C shall supervise n.el bite a" lllc activities ol the Jtevilli!" the heal.n feiiMi Officer of Health shall be ffemeah.l administrator ior .he S/and'sMl f!"' rai felon over all Heparin,en al acniJ,i ofllrrrs working Jli * lls ill the ease of the ,-,.«suii.|»ria qi Otak, an. I'll here..Sir.. Kin it George A . Hospital a. Lnjauii the Queen Mary Hospital at uV Tlie.SC JH3titutions i>oui£_ i>art fcUital svtfiem ol T tlio ! )ominip:i s«sie -is bcrotofoi-L'. The Mi.die. 0 f Health shall exercise tull irfsioV and"control in the case of i'idical iaiKl "nursiiifr service to, ■i. St. Helens Hospitals am; staffs. ■ 'i'l jiid'efliee ftaff, niir=e inspectors. of health, district nurses, jiJwivcs. 11l the ca.-c of other Rental activities the n.lniini-d ra"(Krtiiifil hy the Medical Oi'iicc" J-jliii sli.il' eover all matters save u'tif a "purely professional or fecliiisstarc, and shall be limited uulv <i;ij indicated hereunder: — Lilian of School Hygiene —The jof these officers shall as herotn->l-2 directeil from the head office 'fc Director (if the Wiyiaiqn of id llvffiene, and this will be done tat communication betiveen the (lc; and' the officers concerned. ■t| nieilieai officers shall, luiwevcr, naj to the Medical Oflieer of ilik copies of their monthly reports, Maiiri, and any special reports upon iijis of the health of school cliili, sr upon the condition of any :d buildings- Although the work iii school medical officers shall conlij to lie directed from head oflice, nming oat of such work sliall be jecj jj the supervision of the Medi[Officer of Health as the Deparfc|ul district controlling oflu-er, and [lh's htter officer sliall be directed hiitcsßonilenco relatin" to holiday k »!}rits, stores and equipment, |i stttiimicidation, etc.

iibioii of Dental Hy{tjonc —The Itf ihe officers of tl(is division l!, a tcrctofpre, lie direeted from iliil olSci by tlio Pirn-tor pf the [jioa of Deiitnl Hygiene, and this Els ions jijr. direct cQmimuiication pa iia'difettqr and ' officers conp. fsjjca.of the monthly report'? Ito tfasstj, however, and also of WtU\ ifjMts, shall be forwarded Officer of Health for the triet. tho work of the 'iritftladivision shall be dircct/.'aai tialeaii office, it shall be 1111i:«i tlj enrryinjy out of such work lulu nbicet'to the supervision of IMial Ofiiier of Health as the SRM(aI district controlling offii sr.d to tho lijttpr officer shall be »n correspondence from these fKlatinjf to' holiday.,leave, salaries, anj equipment (not purely ! i! (tores), office accommodation, Ktsnplojltiil Service—The present ifweiita with inspect to this soriMl toatiiiiia, that to say, for [Rfposs ot district administration WW tep'etiplogista and assiststationed at district wi® Mil ])8 under the administra«tif McdicM of Health "Stripy Any assistant bachowever, cqmmunicafo I'V 'v bactpyiolphs district on any ipatter on 3 guidance, iJ- S>? "nutation: so far as these Aw! '0 con"Sder the administratis Medical Officer of Health, f? Jfft step in carrying 'out' the ffFnwwtipn, "th 0 TYhangarci °? Ifqypmljqr 30th, and WMtahor }at the adminiatraIJorth "Auckland by the p. . vfr tf Hqalthj Auckland.