Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1894
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Parliament, to give the Commission
the necessary powers for the erection
of a Crematorium at the City
Cemetery, be rescinded.”
In consequence of this action the matter is
still in abeyance.
In conclusion, I beg to say that, in the
preparation of this report, I have endeavoured
to touch upon all the subjects laid down for
my guidance as your Sanitary Adviser in the
“General Order of the Local Government Board,
8th December, 1891,” which for your information
I here reproduce.
“He shall also make an annual report to the
“Sanitary Authority, up to the thirty-first day of
“December in each year, comprising a summary
“of the action taken, or which he has advised the
“Sanitary Authority to take, during the year for
“preventing the spread of disease, and an account
“of the sanitary state of his district generally, at
“the end of the year. The report shall also contain
an account of the inspections and inquiries
“which he has made as to conditions injurious or
“dangerous to health existing in his district, and
“of the proceedings in which he has taken part or