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STREATHAM,
INCLUDING
TOOTING AND BALHAM.
For the eleventh time since the Local Management Act
came into operation, a brief summary of the sanitary proceedings
of this Sub-district, and of its hygienic condition,
is submitted.
The Mortuary Table accompanying each contribution
to the Health Officer's annual report is so constructed as
to afford an amount of information that renders any very
lengthened comments upon it wholly unnecessary. It is
fit, however, I should remark, that 1866, to a detail of
the principal sanitary events in which year this report
will be confined, was marked by a less satisfactory condition
of the public health than has been noted as its
average state for the previous ten years, a higher rate of
mortality and an increased amount of sickness having
characterised the entire period.
In my last report I had the satisfaction of noting a
much lower death-rate, one indeed below that of the
preceding year by as many as 27 deaths. In the present
report the table of mortality exhibits an increased rate
over that of 1865 by 18 deaths.
It is, however, in the number of deaths due to Zymotic
diseases that this increase is most marked. There were in
1865 but 29 deaths registered from epidemic maladies.
In the present table they are found to amount to 38, and
this is far higher, if we except the year 1859 (when the
number was also 38) than has been observed in any year
since 1856, the year in which the Medical Officers of
Health of the Wandsworth District commenced their
duties.
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