CIVIC SANITATION

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1924, Page 5

CIVIC SANITATION

CONFERENCE OF INSPECTORS;

(tl TILIOUPH.—FKBEB ASSOCIATION.)

DUNEDIN, 24th. January. ;The fourth annual conference of the New Zealand Sanitary Inspectors' Association opened "yesterday, Mr. 'Kershaw (Christchurch) 5 presiding. The delegates were welcomed by the Mayor and the Hon. C. E. Statham... Dr. M'Kibbin,. Health Officer, delivered an' address in which he stated that, considering tneir age, population, and resources,' the' four principal cities of the Dominion compared, favourably with the cities of other Dominions regarding sanitary works and reticu-v latton; but in the country districts medical officers found r,eal difficulties. The people m , the_ smaller boroughs were not well versed in sanitary practice, and it was difficult for health inspectors to maintain even a'passable sanitary'standard. The president, in congratulating the Hon. .Dr.- Pomare* on his appointment as Minister of Health, said that the Minister s keen understanding of sanitation would be a great future help. The long list of useful regulations :gazetted during I the year,, if wisely administered, would make for the health of the community _ An mvitation from. the Auckland centre to hold the conference in that city in 1925 was acccepted. \ ' ■' . v _ .' . Tho- conference considered what action should be taken m oonnection with the appointment of unqualified men. This was tho result of the appointment of what was described as. an unqualified man as assistant inspector of .health in WesternSamoa. It was stated tHat> the man appointed was selected principally; because he had been a policeman in'tropical countries. It was decided that a letter should be sent to the Minister protesting. against such appointments. > b«"» . „An Auckland remit that, in addition to the qualifications at present prescribed %?•£*> SBCtiT ? -°f 'i l6 HeUth Tt, all inspectors who havo held offioe for five th"! ?"? r v? a comin S into force of the Act should be recognised as qualified was referred to the solicitor of the Municipal • Corporations' Association ' A Wellington remit, that the eeneral council rtake further Efforts to h»v e sec Ac? T & th 9 Municipal Act amended so as to provide that persons appointed as sanitary inspectors under the Act shall have tho same qualifications as inspectors appomted under the Health Confe":nce referred * neXt M™^