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Public Health Department,
333, Kennington Road, S.E.
February, 1903.
To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the
Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth.
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
I have much pleasure in presenting you with the
Annual Report, dealing with the Vital and Sanitary
Statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during 1902 (the
second year of the Borough's existence). In doing so, I
would call special attention to the following important
matters dealt with by you, as the Borough Council, during
the year, in connection with my own (Public Health)
Department :—
1. The successful stamping out of the Smallpox
Epidemic by reason of the prompt and energetic action
taken, thereby saving a serious, and large, expenditure to
the Borough, not to mention the disorganisation of trade,
etc., and the general inconvenience, that must have, of
necessity, arisen, had the Epidemic been allowed to
spread.
2. The opposition (started by Lambeth) to Part viii. (Milk
Clauses) of the London County Council (General Powers)
Bill, 1902, in which it was sought, by the London County
Council, to obtain, in connection with milk supplies, powers
the same as, and even greater than, those at present
possessed by the Metropolitan City and Borough Councils
This opposition was successful, in that the House of Lords
threw out the whole of the Milk Clauses, thereby refusing
to recognise the right of the London County Council to
supersede, except in default, the different Metropolitan
Local Authorities, at least, in regard to the prevention of
infectious diseases spread through infected milk.
3. The introduction on June 1st, 1902, throughout the
Borough, of a voluntary (or optional) system of Notification
of Consumption (with tuberculous expectorations), together
with the approval of the principle of, and need for, the
establishing, for the use of the Metropolitan Sanitary
Authorities, of Sanatoria, in which to make trial of the open
air treatment of patients suffering from Phthisis.
4. The inspection by Miss Gamble of the kitchens of
restaurants, hotels, coffee houses, dining rooms, etc., and
the consequent bettering of the conditions under which
food is how being prepared, and cooked, within the Borough,
special work that could only have been satisfactorily done
by a female Sanitary Inspector.
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