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Wandsworth 1896

Report on the health and sanitary condition of the several parishes comprised in the Wandsworth District during the year 1896

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98
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
Disinfection. Forty-four infected premises were subjected
to disinfection during the year, the bedding being stoved
in each instance.
sanitary Eighty-one premises were inspected, and in
operations, seventy-nine cases it was found necessary
to serve notices to remedy sanitary defects. Nine
houses were ordered to be closed as unfit for human
habitation. Further details of the sanitary operations
of the year are set out in Table XIII. of the combined
Report.
C. de LISLE BROCK,
Medical Officer of Health for Tooting.