HH62/1/M-LOTH/3

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Lasswade, Penicuik, Carrington, Cockpen, New-
battle, Dalkeith, and Inveresk; and the GALA
WATER DISTRICT, which has now part of Humbie
included, and comprising the parishes of Temple,
Heriot, Stow, Cranstoun, Crichton, Borthwick, and
Fala and Soutra.
The population, excluding Burghs, is, Suburban
23,374, Calder District 20,072, Lasswade District
19,038, Gala Water District 7,829.

Services of
former Medical
Officers of
Health dis-
pensed with,
and Deputies
appointed, who
can act in
emergencies
under Chief
Medical
Officer.

The services of all the former Medical Officers
of Health acting for parts of the County outside
the Burghs have been dispensed with. All are to
be compensated.
The District Committee of Gala Water have
appointed Dr. Inch, Gorebridge, as my Deputy for
the Gala District. The Suburban Committee have
appointed Dr. Thatcher and Dr. Proudfoot, Edin-
burgh, Deputies for the Suburban District. Dr.
Craigie, Musselburgh, was appointed for Lasswade
District. Each Deputy has a salary of £10 a
year. They act only when asked by me to do so.
Their services have not as yet been required.

Services of
former
Sanitary Inspectors o
fthree of the
Districts dis-
pensed with,
and Assistants
to Chief
Inspector
appointed who
have no other
employment.
One District has re-
appointed, pro
tem., its former
Inspectors as
Assistants.

The former Sanitary Inspectors of the Suburban
District, and of the Districts of Gala Water and
Lasswade, have been dismissed, and the County
Sanitary Inspector has been allowed two Assistants,
one for the SUBURBAN DISTRICT and one for the
GALA WATER and LASSWADE DISTRICTS. The
former Sanitary Inspectors for CALDER DISTRICT
were, after being dismissed, reappointed as Assist-
ants to the County Inspector. Their services can

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be terminated at two months' notice. The system
of having as Sanitary Inspectors local men with
other employment is open to objection, and no
doubt CALDER DISTRICT will soon do as the other
Districts have done, and appoint an Assistant who
shall devote his whole time to the work.
The Water Supply throughout the County is
fairly good in amount. Its quality in some of
the villages and colliers' rows, and at many of the
farms, is questionable - being liable to pollution.

Water Supply
and Special
Water
Districts.

There is a number of places in which 'Special
Water Districts' exist. In the SUBURBAN
DISTRICT we have Corstorphine, Duddingston,
Slateford, Longstone and Hailes, Juniper Green,
Gilmerton, and Newton; in CALDER DISTRICT, East
Calder, Mid-Calder, West Calder, Kirkliston, Currie,
and Ratho. The last is newly formed. There was
a proposed scheme for Balerno; but objections were
raised by some of the inhabitants, and the Sheriff
sustained the appeal until the Committee have
had an opportunity of considering whether a more
extended and comprehensive system for providing
a sufficient supply can be carried out. This new
scheme is now ready, and will shortly go before
the Sheriff. Addiewell has its supply from Cobin-
shaw Loch. The water ought to be filtered before
use. The Oil Company supplying it has received
notice of this. In GALA DISTRICT there are the
Fala and the Stow 'Districts.' The latter, although
arranged for in 1887, only practically became a
formed District last September.