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To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Royal Borough of Kensington.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen.—
I have the honour to submit the Aunual Report of the Medical Officer of
Health, which contains, in accordance with the Regulations of the Local Government
Board, a summary of the action taken for the prevention of disease, and an account of
the sanitary state of the Royal Borough during the year 1917.
In May, 1917, Dr. J. E. Sandilands, your Medical Officer of Health, who had
resumed his duties in the autumn of 1916, again proceeded on active military service
in the field, and at the request of your Council I was invited again to become Acting
Medical Officer of Health during Dr. Sandilands' absence.
I regret to have to report that Mr. Charles Sydney Sewell, who had been a
clerk in the Public Health Department for 16 years, died early in May, 1917, from
wounds received whilst on military service in France.
The work of the Department has been carried on with its usual efficiency, and
Mr. Pettit, the Chief Sanitary Inspector. and the District Sanitary Inspectors lent
willing aid to the work of Local Food Control during the latter half of the year under
review.
I have the honour to be,
Your obedient Servant,
LOUIS C. PARKES.
June, 1918.