For some time the Council has had lurider consideration the question of medical inspection of school pupils. A special medical officer with Home Jexperience has been appointed and a beginning is being made with Muni-ipal Chinese Primary Schools.
The Health Department clearly ree-agnizes that in sub-tropical agrieultural countries the main source of {infection lies in the food and. water the "control jspectorial service is necessary. Every Jendeavour, therefore, is made maintain such services. Whilst the forward. march of preventive medicine is slow, it is satisfactory to note that the Settlement water supply maintains a standard which is fully Jequal to many a city more advantage-[ously situated in this respect.
In regard to many other problems, the attitude of the Department is that "it is preferable by slow and gradual education of the public obtain progress by persuasive methods other than to attain it by legislation which might, through its une popularity, become a dead letter.
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