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To the Board of Works for the Wandsworth District.
Gentlemen,
In accordance with your instructions, we have the
honour to present our First Annual Report upon the Sanitary
condition of the Wandsworth Distiict, during the year 1856.
The report will be found to consist of separate communications
from the Medical Officers of Health of the several "Registration"
Sub-districts; together with an Appendix of Statistical Tables of
general and local information.
This plan of compilation has been adopted in order that while
affording ample materials upon which to base measures of general
improvement, it may furnish each member of your Board with
special information of the parish which he represents, and in which
he may be assumed to be most interested.
The statistics of mortality for the year present considerable
cause for congratulation for the past, as well as hope for the future.
In the first table in the Appendix it is shewn that in the entire
Wandsworth District (allowance being made for increase of population)
less deaths took place in the year 1856, by the large number
of 115, than in the year 1855; and by 116 than would have been
registered had the average rate of mortality of the previous ten
years continued—a circumstance which will doubtless prove as
gratifying to your Board, as it has been to ourselves.
We have the honour to remain,
Gentlemen,
Your very obedient Servants,
THE MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH.