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refused it. Dr. Lankester, the Medical Officer of Health, remarks, “ hat
there is now no longer a cow-house in the Parish.”He further states
“ That the result has been beneficial in a high degree. The property in
the neighbourhood of the cow-houses has already improved, a better class
of tenants occupy the houses, and no complaints are heard of the quality
or quantity of the milk to be obtained in the Parish.”
In conclusion, I am desirous of stating, that as no periodical account
of the cases of illness in the Metropolis is published, but only a record of
the deaths, it would be most desirable, in any amended sanitary act, to
introduce a clause giving power to the Metropolitan Board of Works to
publish weekly a return of all the cases of illness from the several public
Hospitals, Dispensaries, and Workhouses, as well as of those cases which
are attended by the Union Medical Officers. Such returns, in addition to
those of the deaths, would be of great value, as showing the state of the
the public health, which the publication of the deaths only does not
accomplish. For this purpose, it would be necessary for the Metropolitan
Board of Works to obtain power to appoint a Medical Officer of Health,
whose duty, amongst other things, it should be, not only to prepare for
publication such weekly returns, but also to prepare a digest of the reports
of the several Medical Officers of Health.
I am,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
15, Great Alie Street. JOHN LIDDLE.