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Wandsworth 1867
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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REPORT,
1867.
To the Board of Works for the Wandsworth District.
Gentlemen,
We have the honor to present for your consideration
our 12th annual report.
The past year was happily not marked by any of those
exceptional circumstances which characterized the previous
one, but notwithstanding there was less necessity for the
adoption of such extraordinary measures of precaution as
were taken on the appearance of cholera in 1866, the ordinary
sanitary requirements of the several sub-districts
received, it is shewn, during 1867, more than their usual
attention, and the consequence, we are pleased to report,
has been a considerable fall in the death-rate, and an
improved condition of the public health of the entire
District.
We have the honor to be,
Gentlemen,
Your very obedient Servants,
The Medical Officers of Health of the
Wandsworth District.