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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Lambeth 1896

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, The Vestry of the Parish of]

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104
soon passed by the Legislature, it being unjust that Vesties
and District Boards should, by the Metropolis Local Management
(Amendment) Act, 1862, be answerable only for the
Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers, and combined
drains laid or reconstructed before January 1st, 1865, pursuant
to the order or direction, or with the sanction or
approval, of them; and not for the Sanitary Authority, i.e.,
the Surrey and Kent and other Commissioners for the
Metropolis, who were absorbed when the Metropolitan
Commissioners of Sewers came into being in 1848.