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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL
OFFICER OF HEALTH AND PUBLIC
ANALYST FOR THE YEAR 1899.
To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor,
Aldermen and Commons of the Corporation
of London.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present my
Annual Report for 1899.
During the year appreciable progress has been
made by professional experts in the investigation
of the primal cause of preventable and other
ailments. Laborious and costly bacteriological
experiments have been carried on by scientists in
various parts of the civilized world with a view
of determining the special 11 contagia" of diseases
of an infectious character; such as plague,
leprosy, tuberculosis, cancer, "et hoc genus
ornne," the outcome of which there is every
reason to believe will lead to a considerable