London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wandsworth 1871
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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as is to be found in its prevention rather than its cure.
This could be effected, as I have submitted in previous
reports, to as practical an extent and as economically as
possible, by the employment of an abundant and continuous
flow of water for the distinct service of the sewers,
so as to ensure a rapid removal of their contents, and
consequently prevent the decomposition and resulting
gases which otherwise ensue.
GEORGE EDWARD NICHOLAS, M.D.
Medical Officer of Health fur Wandsworth.