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The following are letters to which reference is made in the
foregoing report of the Medical Officer of Health:—
(Copy.)
1.— LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.
Public Health Department,
8, St. Martin's Place, W.C.
12th February, 1906.
Nuisances.
Dear Sir,
I am directed to inform you that an anonymous communication
has been received by the Council, in which complaint is made as to
the houses in Eltham Street, S.E.
I enclose a copy of the complaint.
I am, dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
(Signed) Shirley P. Murphy,
Medical Officer of Health.
Dr. G. B. Millson,
Town Hall,
Walworth Road, S.E.
2.— (Copy.)
To the Chairman of the Housing Committee
London County Council.
Sir,
After considering the best course to pursue, I have come to the
conclusion to lay the following case before you as Chairman of the
Housing Committee of the County Council.
Whilst acting as locum tenens to a professional friend in
Walworth, I have had occasion to attend several cases of illness and
death in a street in this locality (Eltham Street), where the houses
have been quite recently rebuilt.
My attention having been directed to the filthy and unpaved
condition of the very small back yards as a most likely source of the