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THE Annual Reports of the Medical Officer of the Local Government Board constitute in many respects the best treatise on practical hygiene we possess. Their diligent perusal by the embryo health officer would equip him as no ordinary text-book can do for the intelligent discharge of his duties. It would be well if candidates for Public Health degrees were examined upon the salient features of these reports. The volume for 1895–96, which has just been issued, contains certain features of interest. There is the usual admirable summary of the year's work by Sir Richard Thorne; statistics with regard to vaccination, and a compilation of returns of notified infectious diseases in urban districts and in the county of London. Valuable reports are also contributed by Dr. Copeman and Dr. Buchanan upon outbreaks of enteric fever, and by Dr. Sweeting upon an outbreak of diphtheria. The able report by the late Mr. R. W. Thomson upon the sewerage and drainage arrangements of certain valleys in the counties of Monmouth and Glamorgan, leads one to join in the regret expressed at the loss of this talented official. It is, however, the auxiliary scientific investigations which call for more special notice in these columns.
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Cornish, C. Scientific Investigations of the Local Government Board. Nature 57, 131–132 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/057131a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/057131a0