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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wandsworth 1857
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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not only exercise with diligence themselves, but teach others to exercise,
in order that they may be the better able to obey its laws, to grapple
with its difficulties, to understand its advantages, and to make it subservient
to their best and highest interests.
I am, Gentlemen,
Most obediently yours,
R. HARLAND WHITEMAN.
Chairman of the Associated Medical Officers of Health of the
Wandsworth District.
Putney, 15th, April. 1857.