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City of London 1896

Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1896

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I have endeavoured to touch upon 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 con"
tain 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
" advised under any Statute so far as such pro"
ceedings relate to those conditions; and also an
" account of the supervision exercised by him, or
" on his advice, for Sanitary purposes over places
" and houses that the Sanitary Authority have
" power to regulate, with the nature and results of
" any proceedings which may have been so required
" and taken in respect of the same during the year.
" The report shall also record the action taken by
" him or on his advice, during the year, in regard