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Public Health Department,
333, Kennington Road,
London, S.E.
February, 1897.
To the Chairman and Members of the Vestry of the Parish
of Lambeth.
Gentlemen,
The record of work that has been carried out by the
Health Department of the Vestry of Lambeth during the
year 1896 is highly satisfactory, and I take the opportunity
of thanking and complimenting the Sanitary Committee and
the Vestry for the ready way in which they have accepted
my suggestions and acted upon them, thereby raising the
sanitary status of the Parish to a higher level. If the
Members of the Vestry continue to support their Medical
Officer of Health and his Staff for the future in the same
way as they have during the past year, the Parish of
Lambeth will soon hold the proud position of being well to
the front, if not of taking the lead, in sanitary matters and
administraton in the Metropolis.
Further, the courtesy and consideration which I have
received on all hands both from the Members of the Vestry
(individually and collectively) and from the various Official
Departments of the Vestry, call for a frank acknowledgment
from me; whilst I cannot miss this opportunity of at the
same time speaking in high terms of the efficiency and
esprit de corps of my own particular Department, of which
I am proud to be the head.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, B.A , M.D., D.P.H.
Medical Officer of Health.