Preliminary report on the object and duties of the medical officer of health / by F.W. Pavy.

  • Pavy, F. W. (Frederick William), 1829-1911.
Date:
[1856]
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Credit: Preliminary report on the object and duties of the medical officer of health / by F.W. Pavy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    TO THE VESTRY OF THE PARISH OF ST. LUKE, MIDDLESEX. Gentlbhex, The first act of my official connexion with your Parish that I have to discharge, is to lay before you (through the medium of your Sanitary Committee), a professional statement of the principal duties I shall have to perform, and to point out to you the objects it is de- sired by system to attain; for your new Medical Officer of Health will have to pursue a path, as yet unfamiliar to you,—because upon ground that has been hitherto un- trodden by others. In framing this Report, I have carefully con- sidered the clause in the Act under which the appointment of Health Officer has been made, and the other Acts that give him powers to move; I have attentively perused the Instructional Minutes issued by the General Board of Health, and have placed myself in communication with the Medical Officers of Parishes, who have had time from their more early election, to get the machinery appertain- ing to the duties of the office, into working operation. And, after the most careful consideration, I feel convinced I cannot do better than recommend as a guide, the course that has been for some Years past so successfully adopted by Mr. Simon, the recent able Officer for the City of