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objects contemplated by recent sanitary legislation, and to have rendered
some, not unimportant, assistance, towards the promotion of the Science
of Preventive Medicine.
Local Summaries.
Viewed as retrospects of the principal sanitary events of given periods,
the quarterly reports are rendered valuable in proportion to the information
they are made to afford by which to judge of the effects of the
measures of the Board, in diminishing within the District the amount
of sickness and the rate of mortality. The amount and importance of
the sanitary work actually accomplished during the past quarter will
be best shown by arranging the information obtained from the Inspectors
of the several sub-districts, and presenting the same in a tabular
form. This done, the test furnished by the statistical data embodied
in the tables appended to this and former reports, may with greater
facility be brought to bear upon the subject, and conclusions drawn
from the suggested analysis that cannot fail to convince the most sceptical,
that the Wandsworth District is making considerable advancement
in the direction of improvement and healthfulness.
It should be observed, with reference to the following tabular summary,
that the returns from the sub-districts of Streatham, Tooting, and
Balham embrace the works, executed during the months of November
and December only, these parishes having been without an inspector
during the first month of the quarter. The Inspections enumerated in
the table are exclusive of those of slaughterhouses, which every year
form the subject of a distinct report from each of the Health Officers.