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APPENDIX.
CAMBERWELL.
REPORT OF MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH ON
THE PUBLIC HEALTH (LONDON) ACT, 1891, TO
SEWERS AND SANITARY COMMITTEE.
The Public Health (London) Act, 1891, which comes
into force on the 1st of January next year, and is intended
to consolidate and amend the laws relating to public health,
imposes some very important duties on the various
Metropolitan Sanitary Authorities, and is in every respect
an Act which demands their very serious consideration.
For these reasons, and because, moreover, it is a difficult
Act (at least I find it so), I have thought it might be
convenient if, for the use of the Sanitary Committee, I were
to epitomise, and put clearly before them its most important
provisions, as I understand them, and, as far as possible, in
my own language.
HOUSE TO HOUSE INSPECTION.
Although it does not say so in so many words, it seems
to me that the Act makes it the duty of every Sanitary