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Public Health Department,
333, Kennington Road, S.E.
February, 1901.
To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Councillors of the Metropolitan
Borough of Lambeth.
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
The Report for 1900 contains the last record of the
Vital and Sanitary Statistics of the Parish of Lambeth—
the District over which the late Vestry of Lambeth has had
control since 1855. It will be noted that this last record is,
considering all things, the most satisfactory one that has
ever been presented, as shewing what can be done by a
Sanitary Anthority in lowering the death-rates, and lessening
considerably the disease-incidence, amongst the people
inhabiting a District.
In the Appendix will be found a resume of the work done
during the last five years, during which I have had the
honour of being Medical Officer of Health to the late
Vestry, and also full details of an outbreak in Vauxhall
Ward of Typhoid Fever, which was traced to infected
mangles, and which, by the prompt measures taken, was
quickly stamped out.
The London Government Act, 1899, which came into
force on November 9th, 1900, alters the boundaries of the
old Vestry Parish of Lambeth, and makes it necessary in
next year's Report, to start anew a Statistical Record for
the new Borough of Lambeth, which is under the jurisdiction
of the new Borough Council, and such Record will not
be comparable with those to be found in the present and
previous Annual Reports.
One of the last acts of the late Vestry was to open a
branch office at Norwood, in connection with the Sanitary
Department—an important administrative improvement
carried out during 1900. The large amount of disinfection