Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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until all other efforts have failed, it is nevertheless satisfactory
to observe, as evidencing the determination of the
Board to enforce the removal or prohibition of all nuisances
injurious to health, that there were, during the past year,
as many as 20 investigations at the Police Court, in 17 of
which compulsory orders were obtained.
The table in the Appendix, referring more particularly to
the sanitation of the past year, as well as the comments
thereon in the several local summaries, may be consulted
with advantage by those who may desire to possess further
information upon the amount and description of sanitary
work carried out in the District during the period to which
this report relates, and to these local summaries the
Health Officers must now beg to refer their readers.