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Hammersmith 1909
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1909
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And whereas the Councils of the Metropolitan Boroughs of
Bethnal Green, Camberwell, Chelsea, Hackney, Hammersmith,
Lewisham, and Wandsworth, being Local Authorities who have
power to adopt the Act, have not adopted the Act in their
respective areas, and We, the Local Government Board, think it
expedient, having regard to the circumstances of those areas, to
declare that the Act shall be in force in the said areas:
NOW THEREFORE, in the exercise of Our powers in that
behalf, We do hereby Declare that from and after the Thirtieth
day of November, 1909, the Act shall be in force in the area of
each of the Councils of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Bethnal
Green, Camberwell, Chelsea, Hackney, Hammersmith, Lewisham,
and Wandsworth.
Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Government
Board, this Eighteenth day of October, in the year
One thousand nine hundred and nine.
L.S.
JOHN BURNS,
President.
S. B. PROVIS,
Secretary.