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The Chief Gas Examiner being independent of the Company,
it is satisfactory to note that his reports on the daily testing of
the gas are so favourable.
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.
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.
The department sustained a severe loss by the retirement, in May
this year, of Inspector Newberry, he having obtained a valuable
appointment of another description elsewhere. Inspector Wightman
retired, on a pension, in June, on account of ill-health, after
fourteen years' service.
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 twenty 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.,
June, 1891.