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CONCLUSION
When re-reading the previous pages, including the
introduction, my mind would persist in recalling the words
of Kipling (The Piles, - The Five Nations), The following
is an adapted and slightly amended extract:-
"So they catch the eye in running through the files.
For their epoch-marking actions see the files.
Who remembers
Thirty-odd-year old Septembers?
Only sextons paid to dig among the files
You must hack through much deposit
Ere you know for sure when was it
Tis a sure and sovereign balm
Unto a philosophic calm,
When you marvel at your lateness
In apprehending facts so plain to others
When your Imp of Blind Desire
Bids you set the Thames afire,
You'll remember men have done so - in the files
You've a better chance to guess
At the meaning of Success
When you've seen it in perspective in the files.
Nothing now remains but for the last time to express
my sincere thanks to the Chairman of the Public Health
Committee, Alderman Dr. E.H.R. Oldfield, and the Members of
"Che Committee and the Corporation generally. My thanks are
offered also to my fellow officers for their co-operation;
and finally to all my colleagues in the Department, without
whose unremitting efforts this brief record of a year's work
could not have been compiled.
HAROLD T. PERRY.
Chief Sanitary Inspector.