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Parish of Wandsworth.
can only be enumerated. All authorities agree that early
marriages among the poor, employment of married women
in workshops and the consequent boarding out of the
children, tend to increase this mortality. These factors
are at work to some extent in this sub-district, and it is
difficult even to suggest a remedy.
The general death-rate of the sub-district, after all
the corrections are made, compares favourably with that
of the Metropolis. In this district the death-rate was
15.76, while in the Metropolis the rate was 19.5 per 1000.
Sanitation.
A summary of the sanitary operations in the
sub-district during the year is given in Table XIII. of the
combined Report.
The number of houses and premises inspected during
the year was 2871, a decrease of 372, as compared with
1894. This decrease was caused by the fact that the
sanitary inspectors do not devote the whole of their time
to the work of the sanitary department, but have to
supervise the laying of all new drains as well, and as a
large number of new houses were erected during the year,
more time could not be devoted to carrying out Section I.
of the Public Health (London) Act. Each of the four
inspectors has now a district allotted to him, and as they
attend to all nuisances and cases of infectious disease also,
it is not surpising that the house to house inspection shows
a slight decrease. The number of unclassified nuisances
show a large increase—620, as compared with 455 in
1894, and these necessitated in most cases more than one
visit from the sanitary inspectors. The number of preliminary
notices also show a decided increase—1170, as
compared with 857 in 1894, and these also caused increase
of work to the inspectors.
Taking all these facts into consideration, the inspectors