[Report 1901] / Medical Officer of Health, Herefordshire Combined District/s (Bromyard R.D.C., Dore R.D.C., Hereford R.D.C., Ledbury R.D.C., Leominster R.D.C., Bromyard U.D.C.).

  • Herefordshire Combined Districts
Date:
1901
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Credit: [Report 1901] / Medical Officer of Health, Herefordshire Combined District/s (Bromyard R.D.C., Dore R.D.C., Hereford R.D.C., Ledbury R.D.C., Leominster R.D.C., Bromyard U.D.C.). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hertford, ioth February, 1902. To the Chairmen and Members of the Rural District Councils forming the Herefordshire Combined District. Gentlemen, I beg to lay before you my Annual Report for the year 1901. The arrangement of the Report differs only slightly from those issued during the previous 27 years by my predecessors. In order, however, to save undue repetition in the pages devoted to each district, as well as to facilitate comparisons of the districts themselves I have thought it convenient to preface the separate reports by one devoted to the combined districts. 1 should like to say here how very much the usefulness of this report is increased by the practice Dr. H. V. Sandford adopted during his 25 years of office of recording statistics for a long period of years. The admirable manner, too, in which Dr. H. Cecil Moore filed and docketted the records which he dealt with for the years 1898-1900 has enabled me to give details which are of the greatest value, and which otherwise would not have been avail- able. As some of the information contained in these pages may appear to be recorded unnecessarily, and it is possible that members of the Council may consider I am telling- them some- thing which they already know a great deal better than 1 do, I should state that in a memorandum as to their Annual Reports issued to medical officers of health by the Medical Olficer of the Local Government Board, Mr. W. H. Power says:— “ It should be remembered that these Reports are for the information of the Board and of the County Council as wel] as of the Council of the district, and that a statement of the local circumstances and history ol local sanitary questions which may seem superfluous to the latter may often be needed by the former bodies.”