HH62/2/ROXBUR/3

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To the Right Hon. the Convener and Members of the
County Council of Roxburgh.

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, -
In compliance with the regulations of the
Board of Supervision, I have prepared, and have the honour
to submit for your consideration, the following report on
the health and sanitation of the County and Districts of
Roxburgh during the year 1891. The report is necessarily
incomplete, owing to the short time I have been in office
and the absence of records of the work of former sanitary
officials; but I have endeavoured to give some information
about each of the subjects upon which it is my duty to
report.
The mortality tables and death-rates refer only to the last
five months of the year, and are therefore not so reliable as
if they were compiled from returns for the whole year.
Many important matters must be left over for consideration
in future reports; and if in many respects this report appears
to be meagre, it must be remembered that there is only one
sanitary inspector in the County, and every department of
public health cannot therefore be dealt with at one time.

I am,
My Lords and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
M. J. OLIVER.

NEWTOWN, ST. BOSWELLS,
30TH April, 1892.