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points to the conclusion that the sanitary works executed since the Metropolis
Local Management Act came into operation have not been without their
benefits wherever they have been applied and properly sustained under the
regulations of the Board of Works.
Table VI., Appendix, will show at a glance the character of the efforts
that have been made during the past year to improve the sanitary aspects of
the sub-district, and when the whole of these works are taken into consideration,
it can scarcely be disputed that very many salutary influences have been
brought into operation, the good results of which, especially amongst the poor,
are daily becoming more and more manifest.
This being my opinion, I cordially join with my colleagues in recommending
a continuation of efforts to the end of bringing the working classes to a still
more profitable recognition of the laws of health, and consequently to a stricter
obedience of those laws, as well in the performance of their social duties as of
their physical labours.
WILLIAM CONNOR,
Medical Officer of Health for Battersea.