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REPORT
ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF THE SEVERAL PARISHES
COMPRISED IN THE WANDSWORTH DISTRICT. FOR THE
QUARTER THAT ENDED DECEMBER 26th, 1857.
To the Board of Works for the Wandsworth District.
Gentlemen,
The Medical Officers of Health desire, in this their general report
for the quarter that ended December 1857, to bring under the consideration
of the Board, in as concise a form as possible consistent with the
requirements of the subject, the localized statistics of disease and mortality,
together with a summary of the principal sanitary events of the
period.
Believing, that in order to furnish the means of properly comparing
the state of the public health of one period with that of another, it
would be inexpedient to depart materially from their original plan of
proceeding, it has been deemed advisable to adopt the same tables, and
to follow the same arrangement in this as in former reports; and it is
hoped, that whilst furnishing reliable data, which may serve to test the
sanitary value of the measures executed from time to time under the
authority of the Board, your Medical Officers of Health will be considered
to have contributed something towards the realization of the