Sir,—In the British Medical Journal of January 26th is an advertisement for a medical officer of health for a combined district of five rural and four urban authorities, covering an area of over 150,000 acres, and containing a population of nearly 64,000 people.
In additional to acting as medical officer of health he will be required to act as analyst to all these authorities. He must pay his own travelling expenses, and expenses of offices and assistants, for surely one man cannot do all this work efficiently. The salary for everything included is to be £600 per annum.
I hope the profession will mark its disapproval of this attempt to get the medical officer to take on the duties of the public analyst.—I am, etc., Disgusted. (BMJ 1901;i:309)