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for thirty-two years as Medical Officer of Health of the Borough,
during which long period he has uniformly displayed high
professional and organising ability, combined with indefatigable
zeal in promoting the health and welfare of the Borough—
services which have placed it in the forefront of the large
Boroughs with regard to efficiency in sanitation and the lessening
of the mortality rates.
Further, that in also thanking Dr. Priestley for his constant
courtesy to the Members of the Council and others with whom
he has been brought into contact, the Members desire individually
to assure him of their regard for his personal qualities,
and to express the hope that he will carry into his retirement
those pleasing recollections of past relations with them which
they will ever feel towards him.
Given under the Seal of the Council this 13th day of
October, 1927."
The above Resolution was unanimously adopted by the
Council, inscribed on vellum and forwarded to Dr. Priestley by the
Town Clerk.