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Public Health Department,
333, Kennington Road,
London, S.E.
February, 1899.
To the Chairman and Members of the Vestry of the Parish
of Lambeth.
Gentlemen,
Again I have the pleasure of congratulating you on
the good sanitary work that has been done in Lambeth
during another year (1898), and of thanking you for the
ready way in which you have carried out my suggestions,
and taken my advice. Details will be found in the pages
of the Report, but I would specially note the action which
you, as a Sanitary Authority, have taken with respect to—
1. Tuberculosis and its prevention.
2. Bacteriological Examination in Infectious Diseases.
There can be no question but that Lambeth is getting
rapidly to the front in all matters appertaining to the
Public Health, and such a condition of affairs can only be
brought about when a Sanitary Authority is ready and
willing to support its advisers.
It gives me great pleasure to speak well of the work
that has been done by the Public Health Department, and
to offer my thanks for the way in which I have been
supported by my officers, and my praise for the satisfactory
manner in which they have, one and all, carried out their
duties. To the head officials of the various other departments
of the Vestry, I beg to offer my thanks also.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, B.A., M.D., D.P.H.,
Medical Officer of Health.