Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
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DE KEYSER, Mayor.
A Common Council holden in the
Chamber of the Guildhall of the
City of London, on Thursday, the
4th day of October, 1888.
THE Port of London Sanitary Committee did this day deliver
into this Court a Report in writing under their hands with
the Half-yearly Report of the Medical Officer of Health of the
Port of London to the 30th June, 1888, and recommending the
appointment, till Lady Day, 1889, of William Anderson as one
of the Sanitary Inspectors of the Port in the room of William
Gilles, resigned ; which was read.
Resolved, That the consideration thereof be adjourned, and it is
Ordered that the Report be printed, and a copy sent to every
Member of this Court.
MONCKTON.
To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Commons
of the City of London in Common Council assembled.
WE, whose names are hereunto subscribed, of your Port of London
Sanitary Committee, to whom it has been referred to carry into
execution the Public Health Acts, 1872 and 1875, beg to submit for the
consideration of your Honourable Court the Report of Dr. William Collingridge,
the Medical Officer of Health of the Port of London, for the half-year
ending 30th June, 1888, which Report contains a full and detailed account of
the work done during that period in the Port of London by the Medical Officer
of Health and the Inspectors.
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