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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wandsworth 1859
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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are being employed, not only to rid the sub-district of all nuisances known
or suspected of engendering or aggravating disease, but to gradually introduce
such sanitary reforms as cannot fail to greatly benefit the parish, if not to
place it ultimately (abounding, though it does, in manufactories of every kind)
amongst the healthiest of the metropolitan suburbs similarly circumstanced.
WILLIAM CONNOR,
Medical Officer of Health for Battersea.