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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 1860
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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2. That during the past year it was remarkably healthy. The mortality
from epidemic disease was greatly diminished, bearing to the total deaths a
ratio less by nearly half than the average of the past five years ; the
intensity of disease was considerably reduced ; and the death-rate was about
1 per 1000 only greater than that of the healthiest districts of England.
GEORGE EDWARD NICHOLAS,
Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth.