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HEALTH REPORT
OF THE
CROYDON RURAL SANITARY DISTRICT,
1893.
Gentlemen,
In presenting to you the following, my first
annual report, it is necessary to explain that, although
it is called “annual,” yet it refers, as regards work done,
and, partly, also statistics, only to the last six months of
the year 1893. This is owing to the fact that the
appointment of “whole-time” Medical Officer of Health
for the entire district was made towards the end of June
last. I have, however, endeavoured in several particulars
to make it refer to the whole of the year just past, and
wherever it is deficient in information concerning the
first half of the year, it will be necessary to consult the
reports of the three medical gentlemen who held the
office, in conjunction, up to the date of my appointment.
By an order of the Local Government Board, issued
in March, 1891, it is prescribed that every Medical Officer
of Health shall:—
“Make an annual report to the Sanitary Authority, up to the end of
December in each year, comprising a summary of the action taken,
or which he has advised the Sanitary Authority to take, during the
year tor preventing the spread of disease, and an account of the
sanitary state of his District generally at the end of the year. The
report shall also contain an account of the inquiries which he has
made as to conditions injurious to health existing in the District, and