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report will be found from him. I would recommend
that an Assistant Sanitary Inspector be appointed at
Dunbar, to act only on emergencies, and to assist him
when required. For more detailed information as to
the work of the year, I have to refer you to the Medical
and Sanitary Reports of the various District Officers.
As the improvement in the standard of Public
Health of a community largely depends on the individual
efforts of its members, so it is to be hoped that the
exertions of the Sanitary Department will be aided in
every possible way. The publicity which the printing
of the various Medical and Sanitary reports must give
the whole subject, will awaken general interest, and as
the importance of the work becomes more recognised,
every assistance will, it is hoped, be given in carrying
out such needful and judicious improvements as the
advance of the Science of Public Health may demand.

I have the honour to be,

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

Your most obedient Servant,

THOS. F. S. CAVERHILL.

EDINBURGH, 30th March 1892.


REPORTS
BY
MEDICAL OFFICERS
TO
THE COUNTY COUNCIL OF HADDINGTONSHIRE
FOR YEAR 1891.

WESTERN DISTRICT.

PARISH OF YESTER.
I beg to report for the information of the County
Council that, so far as personally known to me, only one
case of Scarlatina has occurred in the Parish during the
year ending 31st December 1891.
Isolation and disinfection were strictly carried out, and
subsequent disinfection of the apartments was duly attended
to. No other cases have occurred in the house nor in any
part of the Parish. There was one case of Hooping Cough.
In the Spring of last year, complaints were made about
bad smells coming from the gratings into the street and
road drains in the Village of Gifford, and on 13th March I
reported to your Committee on the subject, condemning the
use of such drains for conveying sewage - such being a
Nuisance and injurious to health. Nothing has as yet been
done towards remedying or removing this Nuisance, but I
believe the subject is under the consideration of the
Proprietors of Property in the Village and others, with
the view of adopting a complete system of Sewerage.
I have visited and examined the Bakehouses in the
Village of Gifford occupied by Mr William Ogilvie, Mr
Robert Macadam, and Mr George Guy, all of which I
found cleanly and in good order, and that they had been
limewashed during the year.