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 Camberwell]
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SURVEYOR'S REPORT OF THE WORKS
executed by the Vestry for Twelve months,
ending 25th March, 1858
Gentlemen,
The termination of the second year of your Local
Management necessarily demands a general Account of your
proceedings, and although but a resumè of the numerous matters
which during the past year have occupied your attention,
such recapitulation will not, I feel, be considered superfluous
or unnecessary for the information of the Parishioners at large.
SEWERS, &c.
The works executed in this department during the last
twelve months have not been of so extensive a character as was
exhibited in my last year's report, which may be accounted for
by two circumstances; first, that the attention of the Vestry
on its formation was early directed to the extinction of the
many lines of offensive open Sewers surrounding the habitated