STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1291, sig. 109-4/1045 Page 78 · 78 of 606
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1291, sig. 109-4/1045
English Translation
43a 78 4 Health Administration. 40 Health Office. The tasks of health care including veterinary medicine have so far been carried out by the Health Department X, the Cityphysicist and the Health Authority at the Smichow branch of the City Administration. In line with the model in the Old Kingdom, the summary of all legal, factual and technical tasks of the city health service is planned in a health service. The question arose whether a special veterinary service should not be set up for the tasks of urban veterinary service within the department for health care. However, the scope of the veterinary duties is not at present so large that it would justify the establishment of a special office. In the near future, there would not be any forces to carry out further tasks and for the development of an office. A special department within the Health Office is therefore provided for for the official veterinary duties. As soon as the time limits permit, the veterinary duties which still remain valid will be taken up in full and will have to be established by the Veterinary Office. Since the agency is exclusively police, the Vetcrinäramt will later be assigned to the police administration, in which the food police and the chemical investigation office are organized with related tasks. The health authority existing at the Smichow branch is not required as an independent institution. It is integrated into the Health Office with its task. Until now, the municipal health administration has hardly appeared as a food policy. For this reason, the Chemical Institute has taken up the task and for this purpose