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REPORT,
1865.
TO THE BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE
WANDSWORTH DISTRICT.
Gentelmen,
We have the honor to submit our Annual Report for
the tenth year since the Act for the Local Management of
the Metropolis was put in operation in this District.
The carefully collected statistics of this decennial period,
and the adoption each year of the same forms of tables,
can scarcely fail to afford a ready means both of comparing
and of averaging results, and we have much pleasure in
continuing them.
We regret to have to bring under your notice the
circumstance of the year 1865, presenting a death-rate
for the entire district above the average, but it will be
satisfactory to know that the causes of this have been
in operation in portions only of the District, and that
the majority of the parishes composing it are enabled
to present favourable accounts of both sanitary progress
and decreasing mortality.
We have the honor to be,
Gentlemen,
Your very obedient Servants,
The Medical Officers of Health of the
Wandsworth District.