Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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But it is much to be desired that Local Boards should have power of
dealing effectually with many sorts of sanitary defect against which the law
does not at present properly provide. Collectively the Medical Officers of
Health have experience of many such shortcomings in the law, and they have
recently drawn up a memorandum on the subject for the use of Government
in framing future legislation.
GEORGE BUCHANAN, M.D.
63, Hahlky Street.
June, 1865.