A plain statement of facts / addressed by Dr. Griffiths, to his fellow townsmen, of Sheffield. July 1878.

  • Griffiths, F., Dr.
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[1878]
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Credit: A plain statement of facts / addressed by Dr. Griffiths, to his fellow townsmen, of Sheffield. July 1878. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Town Clerk. It has never been my practice to take any Copy of Resolutions passed by this General Committee. It is only the Resolution of the Sub- Committees (which I may have attended) that I have been accustomed to enter in the minute books. As no date is given as to when the resolution was passed or order given, I cannot trace the alleged circum- stance with accuracy. On the 13th March, 1878, the Superintendent at Woodside wrote tome, ‘We are nearly out of disinfecting powder, will you kindly order some?’ I therefore ordered a supply of it as before, and from the maker who has supplied it for years past. “ (2.) So far as I know the answer to this question is ‘ yes.’ The Superintendent at Woodside Lane was requested by me to obtain samples ot the powder from three or four different bags, and to send it to my office ; this he did on the 3rd of May; as far as I know he sent the sample from the powder last supplied, i.e. that which he received in March. A portion of this sample was forwarded to the Borough Analyst. “(3.) I have been misunderstood here. I did not intend any- one to suppose ‘that the Analyst had not had time to analyse it.’ I believe I said, ‘the analysis would take a little time.’ When the powder was referred to, I said, ‘that it had been sent for;’ meaning that I had sent to the Superintendent for it, for analysis; not that it had been already sent to the Analyst. “ (4.) The question here referred to was put very early at the meeting, and I gave the correct answer—‘ that I had not received the report.’ I can probably recall to the Committee’s mind the fact that the question was put thus early, by stating that immediately after the names of the Committee were called, and before pro- ceeding with the general routine business, Mr. Dobb spoke as to whether 4 tons or 2 tons of disinfecting
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