HH62/2/LANARK/7

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To the Members of the County Council and District
Committees of the County of Lanark.

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

The following Report which I have the honour to
submit to you, on the health and sanitary condition of the
County of Lanark during 1891, has been prepared in accor-
dance with the duties prescribed for County and District
Medical Officers in the Local Government Act and by the
Board of Supervision.
It was originally my intention to go fully into the vital
statistics of the whole county, for a period of, at least, ten
years back, in order to furnish a basis for future comparison,
and to show how the county, as regards hygienic conditions
- in so far as these could be deduced from mortality statis-
tics - compared with the rest of the country.
As, however, my appointment only dated from May of
the year under consideration, and as, in addition to routine
work, my time has been so fully occupied with the organising
and arranging incident to the establishment of what is
practically a new office, I was obliged to limit this report,
so far as regards birth and death returns, to the year ending
31st December, 1891.
Considering also that the full report on the last census
has not yet been published, and a complete statistical
account at present therefore impossible, it seems to me
preferable to prepare, at some future period, a supple-
mentary report dealing entirely with the statistics of the