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(3) MEDICAL OFFICERSHIP.
On the 9th day of June, 1891, Mr. Henry Gawen Sutton, M.D., F.R.C.S.,
who had occupied the position of Medical Officer of Health to the Vestry since the
year 1865, died after a short illness at his residence at Sevenoaks, Kent, of
pneumonia, following an attack of influenza.
At the following meeting of the Vestry a sincere vote of condolence with the
late Dr. Sutton's widow and family was passed by the Vestry, and the officials of
the Vestry joined in a consolatory address to them, and at the funeral gave
expression to the loss they had incurred in a Medical Officer whose kindness and
friendship to the officials were conspicuous.
Dr. Sutton was a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Medicine of the London
University, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Examiner of that body,
Fellow of the Royal Medical Chirugical Society, Member of the Pathological and
Clinical Societies, of the Medical Pyschological Association, and a Member of the
Association of Medical Officers of Health, Physician and Lecturer on Pathology to
the London Hospital, Consulting Physician to the Poplar Hospital, and Physician
to the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. He was the author of
several works, including:—"Lectures on Medical Pathology," "Fibroid degeneration
of the Lungs," "Natural History of Rheumatic Fever," "Clinical Report on
Cholera," "Abscesses on the Brain," "Report on the Morbid Anatomy of Cholera,"
"Mitral and Tricuspid Bruits," "Rheumatic Fever," "Chronic Brights Disease,"
"Morbid changes in the Spinal Cord in cases of Arterio Capillary Fibrosis,"
'• Relations of disturbances in general circulation of Kidney Diseases." He was
also a contributor to the Medical Times, Gazette, British Medical Journal, and the
British and Foreign Medical and Chirurgical Review.
He was an eminent authority on pathology. He did important work in
connection with the public health during his service under the Vestry, especially
in connection with an outbreak of cholera, and in obtaining the constant watersupply
from the East London Water Company, and the abolition of storage cisterns.
The Vestry referred it to the General Purposes and Officers' Committees,
conjointly, to bring up a report of the salary and duties of the Medical Officer, and
as to the election of Dr. Sutton's successor. The joint Committees were of opinion
that the Medical Officer should be appointed and paid wholly by the Vestry, and it
was resolved on the 7th July, 1891, on their recommendation:—That a duly
qualified Medical Officer be advertised for at a salary of £200 per annum.
The Vestry also resolved that Dr. Bate, the Medical Officer of Health of
Bethnal Green, be requested to act for the Vestry in cases of necessity, and it was
left in the hands of the Vestry Clerk to call him when required, and to arrange
with him as to payment of his fees,