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The Board of Health will have no money lor a survey in

1916. for our Sanitary Districts, being in full operation, will
require the funds which the Legislature has provided.

An appropriation of $3, 000 for 1916, and a like sum for

1917. would enable them to make a survey of one county each
year. I doubt if the State should adopt a general policy of
appropriating funds for county surveys, expecting counties
themselves to bear no expense on account of such services.
But experience shows that such surveys do involve cost to the
localities, for the surveys are apt to set forward important
public works, particularly sewerage and water works, which
otherwise might be postponed for years. The State can afford
to await its profit in the very frequent event that the authori-
ties of the counties and towns will provide means of their own
to improve the start which the State will have given. The
County of Frederick, for instance, will not rest upon the results
of the Frederick County School Survey. The school authori-
ties are, at the moment., incurring expense, and investing in
the time of officers and employees, to an extent quite compar-
able with the expenditure of the State and of the Federal
Bureau.

The help obtained from the United States Public Health
Service has been of great value. We cannot expect its indefi-
nite continuance, though we shall avail ourselves of that help
whenever we can. We are inclined to think that the quality of
assistance which we supply,. and the spirit of our organization
here, have won for us and our proposals a friendly attitude on
the part of the Federal Bureau. The Bureau feels, I think,
that every investment of men and means, in Maryland, is
likely to be matched by proportionate investment of men and
means on our part; just as the Department of Health has the
feeling that the State's investment in the counties and towns
is likely to be matched by the local authorities in devising
ways and means for continuing and extending such work as
may be inaugurated.
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