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Vestry Hall,
Upper Street,
July 1st, 1898.
To the Chairman and Members of the Vestry of
St. Mary, Islington.
Sir, Madam, and Gentlemen,
It affords me great pleasure once more to present to you
my Annual Report on the Health and Sanitary Condition of your
great Parish, the more particularly as I have again to congratulate
you on its extraordinary healthiness, a healthiness which I will
venture to assert is not attained, at all events in the United
Kingdom, by any Urban District with an equally large population.
I desire to state here that I have been very pleased with the
punctuality, the diligence, and the general conduct of the staff,
Clerical and Inspectorial, of the Public Health Department, and
that they have endeavoured so far as they could to help forward
the sanitary work of the district.
I must also acknowledge the assistance that Mr. J. R. Leggatt,
the Superintendent and Chief Sanitary Inspector, has been to
myself and to the Inspectors, and I would bring under your notice
the careful manner in which he has made inquiries into the
insanitary conditions existing on all the premises against whose
owners legal proceedings were contemplated or taken.
To Mr. G. H. King, Chief Clerk, I have to express my
indebtedness for the skilled way in which he has prepared much
of the statistics contained in this report, as well as in my Quarterly
Returns, and for his very great willingness at all times to assist
me in my Clerical Work.
I am,
Your obedient Servant,
ALFRED E. HARRIS,
Medical Officer of Health.