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REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
Clattern House,
Kingston-upon-Thames,
January, 1896.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my third
annual report, and trust that with one exception
you will find it satisfactory, as I have neither great
epidemics to record nor controversial matters to
discuss and criticise. It has now been definitely
settled that the parish of Kingston is to be three
sanitary districts instead of one, and I feel sure that
in endeavouring to make it a sanatory district the
Medical Officers of the other two districts will unite
with me in cordial assistance to one another in all
those cases in which our duties come in contact.
The most important event of the year was the
great frost, and this brought home to all members
of the community the disabilities under which we
suffer in being without control over our supply of