Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Hampstead for the year 1900.

  • Hampstead (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1901]
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Credit: Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Hampstead for the year 1900. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    14 Special Reports were issued during the year on various subjects, and a special memorandum addressed to every medical practitioner respecting Plague. A General Sanitary Notice was sent to every householder in October pointing out the necessity for the periodical inspection and cleansing of all disconnecting chambers on their system of drainage, and for seeing to the thorough flushing out of all syphon traps and drains on the premises; attention at the same time was called to the necessity for the cleansing of cisterns, and the preventing of accumulations of vegetable and animal matters, with garden refuse, &c., in dustbins. In closing my last Annual Report, I take the opportunity of bearing testimony to the valuable and efficient assistance I have received from Mr. G. A. Smith, the Senior Sanitary Assistant; to Mr. Leverton and the other three Inspectors, who have carried out their arduous and frequently unpleasant duties with judgment and success; nor should the services of the Clerical Staff be overlooked, seeing that their work has been very much increased lately by the additions to the number of the Sanitary Inspectors. Whilst thanking the various Borough Officials for the assistance and information afforded me in past years, I beg at the same time to gratefully acknowledge the valuable assistance I have received from the Chairman and Members of the Public Health Committee, and for the uniform support afforded me not only by the late Vestry, but also by the Mayor and Members of the present Borough Council. I am, Gentlemen, Your obedient Servant, EDMUND GWYNN, Acting Medical Officer of Health.
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