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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19041, 11 December 1923, Page 8

0-r. v ’..'uent is made (says our London corre-. spondent) by tho Municipal Engineering and Sanitary Record on the annual report of the Director-general of Health in New Zealand, wherein evidently criticism has appeared of the competency of some engineers. The London paper remarks; “Many countries have reason to „envy New Zealand's death rate of 10.70 per ICCO, and more particularly the infantile mortality rate of 41.9 phr 1000 births. The population of New Zealand appears to have the greatest expectation of life of any country in the World. Results might be even better if tho larger • hospitals had competent engineers instead of being in the hands ot architects or persons not qualified for such •jssenlinl work. Some of the hospital boards hare been landed in difficulties by incompetent consultants, as mentioned in the annual , report of tho Director-general of Health, ... Dr A. G. Patterson, school medical officer, writes appreciatively ol the propaganda work in Canada and America concerning healthy living, and he notes the utility of voluntary helpers, a class not yet conspicuous in New Zealand.’’ Among tho “rubbbish” saved from Newark’s dust destructor during a recent year were a grandfather’s clock, a bronze urn, antique cups, knives, spoons, and coffee and tea pots.