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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after stating that the Conference could not be carried on any
further than the end of the current meeting, observed that:
"The closing of the present Conference would not
interfere with a suggestion that there should be
another Conference called at a later date, or with
the Vestries themselves holding a Conference of
their own, and then submitting any conclusions
arrived at to the Council, which might then lead
to a similar Conference to the present one."
In the course of the discussion after the report of the
Medical Officer of Health had been received, a resolution
was proposed to the effect:—
"That the report of the Medical Officer of Health be
referred to a Conference to be convened either by
the Committee of the Council, or by the Committee
appointed to consider the report with the view to
the adoption of some principle in accordance with
the resolution passed at the last meeting."
The Delegates after much discussion did not adopt
the Report of the Medical Officer of Health, but only
received it.
A resolution proposed and carried,
"That the County Council should under sub-section 7
of Section 46 of the Act, contribute to the Local
Authority one moiety of the expenses of carrying
into effect all schemes comprising an area of five
dwelling houses, and upwards which may be