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Street, are of this character, and would assuredly benefit
the parish immensely by their demolition, since one of the
principal thoroughfares and public roads would be at once
opened up, that is now so obstructed and so narrowed as
to render all vehicular passage through it, at certain times,
positively dangerous.
I cannot conclude my contribution to this Report
without expressing my thanks to the members of the
Board, and to the Local Committee, for the manner in
which they have at all times received and discussed my
reports and returns ; nor can I do otherwise than offer my
congratulations to the inhabitants and ratepayers of this
Sub-district upon the earnestness of purpose displayed by the
local authorities in having so largely contributed to bring
about the two very satisfactory results spoken of at the
commencement of this report, viz., the steady but manifest
reduction of the death-rate of this parish, and the gradual
but perceptible diminution, within its area, of both the
amount and intensity of epidemic sickness,—of that kind
of sickness which it is the great object of sanitation to
control and prevent.
R. HARLAND-WHITEMAN,
Medical Officer of Health
for Putney and Roehampton.
Chairman of the Associated Health
Officers of the Wandsworth District.