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an appliance (Disinfecting Oven), for the disinfection of
the clothing of those suffering from infectious diseases.
These now universally acknowledged sanitary requirements
affecting especially the houses of the poor, urgently need
fulfilment, for as the great bulk of epidemic sickness, with
its fatal results, as annually indicated in these reports,
occurs in the houses of the labouring classes, it is there
only that contagion can be attacked with any probability
of success. And it is not foreign to the subject to add,
that whatever measures are successfully projected against
contagion in the places which form its stronghold will be
successful not only in the diminution and alleviation of
human suffering, but also in lessening the burden of the
ratepayer, insomuch as is represented by the great expense
attendant on pauperism, pauper sickness, and their
inevitable results.
GEORGE EDWARD NICHOLAS, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth.