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Five hundred and twelve lots of bedding and 6,583
articles were disinfected under the superintendence
of your officials.
Seven hundred and fifty-nine copies of notification
of infectious diseases were sent to schools where
children attended from the houses in which the
occurrence of infectious disease had been reported.
A large number of articles of food, including
beef, pork, fish, fowls and fruit, were seized by the
Sanitary Inspector and destroyed.
Eighty-two post-mortem examinations were made
at the Vestry's mortuary.
Factories and workshops were inspected, and
many improvements in their sanitary condition
carried out.
Thanking the Vestry and my colleagues for the
kind and valuable assistance which I have received,
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN DIXON,
M.D., L.R.C.P. Lond., M.R.C.S., &c.,
Medical Officer of Health.
133, Jamaica Road, Bermondsey.