Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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wished some suitable system will ere long
be devised or discovered to settle by some
means legislative or otherwise, a difficult
and vexed question. With reference to road
watering, your Surveyor is so entirely in
accord with me as to its necessity and
beneficial effects, that I have no apprehension
so important a procedure will be neglected,
and the same remark applies to
the frequent flushing of the sewers, either
with or without disinfectants, according to
the character of the season. I believe I
have recorded and commented upon sufficiently
all subjects of material importance.
I am,
Your obedient servant,
C. A. PATTEN,
Medical Offioer of Health.
March 2nd. 1908.