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are filtered through Paddington before they reach your district, and have consequently
been examined by the authority there, and detained when advisable. No registrations
have, consequently, been made since my last report, either by yourselves or the
Limehouse authority.
I am prevented by want of space from giving further details under this head, and
for the same reason, bringing forward some interesting information I have worked out
as to new Health Legislation, the London Water Supply and Electric Light Questions,
and (in view of the existing zymotic epidemic) the average seasonal prevalence of the
communicable diseases in Rotherhithe. during the thirty years of your existence as a
Sanitary Authority, as it will require some special diagrams and illustrations, but I
hope, with your permission, to do so in a future Report.
It only remains for me to thank you for the support you have rendered me in your
Corporate capacity, to express to my Colleagues my sense of their kindness, and to
bring to your favourable notice the zeal and intelligence of Mr. Edwards, the Inspector
of Nuisances, who with the Disinfector, has materially aided me in my endeavours to
perform my duty to your satisfaction.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
BENJn. BROWNING, M.D., S.Sc.C.Edin.,
Fellow of the Chemical Society, etc.
Medical Officer of Health.
Rotherhithe, S.E., 1882.