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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Edmonton 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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Prince of Wales' National Relief Fund as representatives of Edmonton
Insurance Committee, but I have never received a summons to any meeting !
Note.—The sudden end of the District Committee accords with the
centralising policy of the County Council, the wisdom of which policy is open
to question. In connection with this sad story of a young lite prematurely
extinguished, I cannot help recalling this epitaph on the young child's tombstone:—
Here lies the body of E.D.C.,
aged 12 months.
"Here am I, so early done for,
I wonder what I was begun for!"