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Pontefract. - Has offered services to Royal Commission to enquire into cattle plague; previous successes in treatment of dysentery; names supporters; seeks testimonial from Houghton.

Pontefract. - Encloses report of the Royal Sanitary Commission from today's Leeds Mercury.

Pontefract. - Has developed household distillers to purify drinking water; attempts to reduce tax upon them; possible Army use; describes manufacture; they are under review by the British Medical Association; will also send the BMA 'a new Rectal bougie & an Oro-Nasal Respirator' of his own design. Offers Houghton a water-distiller.

Pontefract. - Decrease in professional income owing to misrepresentation of views of sanitary matters; they simply echo those of Dr Trench; supported entirely by younger son during recent illness; local opposition to sanitary measures as injurious to medical business; 'On one occasion a Medical man here said to me- 'for God's sake do not you deodorise Pontefract, for God Knows we are poor Enough & need all we can get'. Solicits mark of favour to re-establish himself before the public.

Pontefract. - Proposed appointment of medical officers for sanitary supervision; seeks Houghton's recommendation to obtain such a position. Postscript: is only a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons at present, but is preparing for Fellowship Examination.