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REPORT.
1864.
To the Board of Works for the Wandsworth District.
Gentlemen,
The ninth year of the operation of the Metropolis
Local Management Act having expired, it again necessitates,
at our hands, the presentation of the usual annual report on
the health and sanitary condition of the several parishes
within the jurisdiction of your Board.
In the last report we had the honour of submitting, we
expressed our regret that the District had not then presented
so healthy a condition as in some previous years, and
referred to the fact of such result being evidently due to
general rather than to local causes.
It is found that similar general influences continued to
operate in the production and propagation of disease in the
District throughout the greater part of 1864. It is however
satisfactory to note that it is not to zymotic maladies
that the excess of mortality during the past year is to be
attributed, but rather to the prevalence of that class of
affections over which sanitation can exercise but little
control, but which are mainly influenced, in respect to
their fatality, by unfavourable atmospheric conditions—
conditions, which we may reasonably hope will not be
persistent.
We have the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Your very obedient Servants,
THE MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH
FOR THE WANDSWORTH DISTRICT.
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