London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Battersea 1897
Report upon the public health and sanitary condition of the Parish of St. Mary, Battersea...
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a female inspector to supervise places where women and girls
are employed.
I have to express my thanks to all my colleagues for their
ready and able assistance during the year under report.
To the Health Committee and the members of the Vestry
generally, I beg to tender my high appreciation of the kind
support with which I have always been favoured; indeed, without
such support the duties of a Medical Officer of Health, are
becoming so numerous, being added to year by year, that it
would be impossible to carry them out successfully.
W. H. KEMPSTER, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.