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To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor,
Aldermen and Commons of the Corporation
of London.
Gentlemen,
The conditions under which this Report
of the work done by your Sanitary Staff during
the year 1900 is presented are unusual.
Some of the manuscript was completed during
the lifetime of my predecessor, Dr. Sedgwick
Saunders, and at his death, that part of it
dealing with the City population and mortality,
&c., was taken in hand by the Acting Medical
Officer of Health (Dr. R. Dudfield).
At the time I took office the Report as a
whole was approaching completion, and finding
it was drafted on the lines adopted in former
years, I deemed it inadvisable to make any
alterations in the text. Notes, however, to which
I have appended my initials, will be found in
several places.