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CONCLUSION.
In conclusion of the Report for the year, 1882,1 may point
out that this year is again one which bears witness to the good
results of the continued efforts of the Vestry to prevent
disease, efforts which have year by year borne fruit in adding
to the health and happiness of the inhabitants of one of the
largest districts in London. There is however, still much
work before the Vestry, as a Sanitary Authority, to which
their attention must be devoted. Efforts must be continually
made to limit the spread of infectious disease wherever it
should appear. The houses inhabited by the poorest members
of the community must be unceasingly inspected if they are
to be maintained in a proper sanitary condition; nor must
the dwellings of their more wealthy neighbours be forgotten,
seeing how frequently sickness occurs among them, due to
ignorance or neglect. So again as increased knowledge
teaches more fully the manner in which disease is caused,
this knowledge must guide the Vestry in their labours to
benefit those who are dependent upon them.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
SHIRLEY F. MURPHY,
Medical Officer of Health.