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It now only remains for me, in bringing this Report to a
conclusion, to offer my thanks to all who have contributed by
their assistance to whatever success may have attended the
work of my Department during the past year.
I have had occasion in previous reports, to refer to the cooperation
of the Board of Guardians. It would be impossible
to over-value the services rendered by them, in past years,
through their officers, in measures for preventing the spread of
dangerous infectious diseases—-viz., by securing the speedy
removal of the sick.
The sub-district Registrars, Messrs. Barnes and Hume,
and the Vaccination Officer, Mr. Shattock, have, as usual,
readily complied with my applications for information on
subjects connected with their several departments.
The Sanitary Inspectors have discharged their onerous,
and in some respects perilous, duties with zeal, intelligence and
success. To Mr. Rudman, the Sanitary Clerk, I am indebted,
among other things, for assistance rendered in passing this
Report through the press The Assistant Clerk has performed
his duties to my entire satisfaction.
But above all, my thanks are due to your Vestry for continuance
of the confidence which, now for nineteen years, has
enabled me to carry out, with pleasure and satisfaction, the
duties of my office, and to superintend the work of a Department
the importance of which, I believe, is now generally recognised.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
T. ORME DUDFIELD,
Medical Officer of Health.
Offices : Town Hall,
Kensington, W.,
July, 1890.