London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1861
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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which sanitation should take to henceforth ensure the most satisfactory
results.
As some set-off to this by no means encouraging circumstance, it
may be mentioned that, of 4,471 cases of sickness, accident, &c.,
treated by the District Medical Officers of the Union (vide Table V.,
Appendix) only 159 deaths, or 3.55 per cent. of the number
attended, were registered during the past year, which is saying
much for the good results of the sanitation already carried out in
some of the poorest localities.