. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1911, . [17]. [18] 1911 INFANT xMUKTALiTY. 19 that the medical officer of health is a busy local practitioner, receiving asiiiall salary which his employers regard chiefly as a sop to keep him quiet, or thathe is naturally unwilling to incur the risk of offending his patients by callingattention to their misdoings. The members of the local council are often the ownersof the cottage property which they ought to condemn, or are large contributors tothe rates which would be temporarily increased by improvements. In many casesthey have sought and obtained elect
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1911, . [17]. [18] 1911 INFANT xMUKTALiTY. 19 that the medical officer of health is a busy local practitioner, receiving asiiiall salary which his employers regard chiefly as a sop to keep him quiet, or thathe is naturally unwilling to incur the risk of offending his patients by callingattention to their misdoings. The members of the local council are often the ownersof the cottage property which they ought to condemn, or are large contributors tothe rates which would be temporarily increased by improvements. In many casesthey have sought and obtained election to their offices simply as a means of savingthe district from what they would describe as expense. It seems manifest that the infliction of such loss upon the community generally,as a result of the ignorance, the parsimony, or the deliberate neglect of duty, of afew parochial office-holders should no longer be permitted by the legislature. Itshould not be difficult to enact that systematic neglect of their duties by urban ordistrict councils
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