[Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City.

  • Nottingham (England). City Council.
Date:
1897
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Credit: [Report 1897] / Medical Officer of Health, Nottingham City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE HEALTH COMMITTEE. Gentlemen,— The following is my eighth Annual Report as Medical Officer of Health for Nottingham, and my first since it acquired the title of a city. There was a peculiar fitness in the bestowal of this dignity by Her Majesty the Queen upon Nottingham at this juncture, apart altogether from the joyful occasion of Her Majesty’s Jubilee, for there can be no doubt that Nottingham has quite recently made, and is still making, more rapid strides in actual and apparent prosperity and importance than almost any other town of its class in the three kingdoms. A large responsibility rests at all times with the Health Com¬ mittee of a corporation, but more especially is this the case at a time when their town is undergoing rapid development. It devolves upon them then more particularly to see that the depart¬ ment and work under their control are not left behind upon the path of progress. By the exercise of forethought and judgment provision can often be made for further developments with infinitely more economy and convenience than by simply living, so to speak, from hand to mouth. It is quite possible for a Municipal Corporation to interpret the text ^‘take no thought for the morrow” in too absolute a sense. To give only one example:—enormous expenditure and untold trouble are often avoided by securing the early possession of plenty of land in suitable situations for the various purposes of municipal management and government.