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Public Health Office,
May 3rd, 1909.
To the Worshipful The Mayor, the Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of St. Marylebone.
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my Report on the
health and sanitary circumstances of your Borough for the
year 1908.
I beg to commend to your special notice those sections of
the Report dealing with the following matters, which are of
distinctive interest in this portion of London— the Public Food
Supply, the Control of Phthisis, Underground and Tenement
Dwellings, and the Removal of House Refuse. It would be at
best useless repetition to summarise here, as appears to be the
fashion in such Reports, the chief points of interest under those
headings, and I would hope that the members of your Council
will have leisure to peruse and carefully consider the Report,
at any rate these particular sections, with a view to the adoption
of a policy which will result in the amelioration of the conditions
described.
I desire to place on record my high appreciation of the
devotion to the work of the Department shown by the Chairman
of the Public Health Committee, the Rev. J. A. Beaumont, and
of the encouragement and assistance which he has so unstintedly
given in that capacity.
Councillor Lea-Smith has continued, as Chairman of the
Dust Sub-Committee, to devote a very considerable amount
of personal and detailed attention to the important question of
the Removal of House Refuse— a matter which calls for constant
and thorough supervision— and the Department is deeply
indebted to him in this .matter.
I wish also to acknowledge the kindness and cordiality with
which any recommendations of mine have been invariably
received by the members of the Public Health Committee as
well as by your Council.
The Staff of the Department have worked loyally at all
times, and have grudged neither time nor pains to make their
work, which is often trying and disagreeable, a round success.
I am,
Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
MEREDITH YOUNG,
Medical Officer of Health.