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REPORT.
To the Board of Works for the Wandsworth District.
Gentlemen,
In conformity with the order of your Board, and
section 43 of the Metropolis Local Management Amendment
Act, we have the honour to submit our report for 1863.
We regret to have to record a less healthy condition of
the District than in our report of last year, though at the
same time some consolation is to be found in the knowledge
that this result is due to general, rather than to local causes.
It should be borne in mind that zymotic diseases, to
which the high rate of mortality can alone be attributed,
were very prevalent and very fatal, as well throughout the
kingdom as in the Metropolis during the year under review,
and that the unusual amount of sickness has given rise,
almost everywhere, to the same regrets as those we here
express.
We trust, however, to be able to exchange these regrets
for congratulations, upon the operation of far more favourable
influences in our next Report.
We have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your very obedient Servants,
THE MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH
for the wandsworth district.
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