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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DIMSDALE, Mayor.
A Common Council holden in the Chamber of
the Guildhall of the City of London, on
Thursday, the 13th day of March, 1902.
THE Port of London Sanitary Committee did this day deliver
into this Court a Report in writing under their hands of their
proceedings, and submitting the Report of the Medical Officer of
Health of the Port of London for the Half-year to the 31st
December, 1901; also for confirmation of the appointment of John
Henry Rolfe as a Sanitary Inspector and an Inspector of Canal
Boats under the Canal Boats Acts ; which was read.
And a Motion being made and Question put, That this Court
doth agree with the Committee in their said Report, the same was
resolved in the Affirmative, and it is Ordered accordingly.
Ordered, That the Report be printed, and a copy sent to every
Member of this Court.
PRIOR GOLDNEY,
Officiating Town Clerk.
To the Eight Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Commons
of the City of London, in Common Council assembled.
\\JE, whose names are hereunto subscribed, of your Port of London
Committee, to whom it has been referred to carry into execution the
powers assigned to the Corporation as the Port of London Sanitary Authority
by the Local Government Board, under the Public Health (London) Act,
1891, beg to submit for the consideration of your Honourable Court the
Report of Dr. Herbert Williams, the Medical Officer of Health for the Port of
London, for the Half-year to the 31st December, 1901, which Report contains
a full and detailed account of the work done in the Port during that period
by the Medical Officers and Inspectors.