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Rotherhithe 1896
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]
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To her most Gracious Majestt the Queen
The humble Address of the Vestry of the Parish of Rotherhithe in the
Administrative County of London
Mat it please your Majestt:
We, the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Members of the Vestry of the
Parish of Rotherhithe in the Administrative County of London, representing (be
inhabitante of the said parish, humbly to approach your Majesty with the exprenssion
of our loyal and hearty congratulation upon the attainment of the Sixtieth year of your
Majesty's reign, a reign more prolonged than that of any pervious British Sovereign.
We feel deeply sensible of the wise and beneficent manner in which your Majesty has
always presided over the affairs of your Empire, and the general prosperity enjoyed by all
classes of your Majesty's subjects since your Majosty's accession to the Throne
We ??? pray that your Majesty may long be spared to rale over your loyal
Subjected and that Almighty God may still vouchsafe a continuance of those Heavenly
??? which have to long and abundantly been granted to your Majesty.
In token whereof the Common Seal of the vestry of Rotherhithe was hereto affixed by
order this 20th day of October,
EDWARE JOSSELYN BECK, Chairman
FRANCIS J. BISLEY, Vice Chairman
JAMES J. STOKES, Clerks