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the total cases of sickness which occurred, an approximate
estimate can be formed of the amount of disease which
prevailed generally. According to such calculation the
total amount of sickness during the past year will have
corresponded exactly with that of the year preceding, viz.,
56 per cent. of the population, the average of the preceding
ten years having been 67 per cent.
Sanitary Proceedings, Removal of Nuisances, &c. —
Table VI. in the Appendix contains the usual summary of
the general sanitary proceedings which have been carried
out during the year; and, although several became the
subjects of special reports, and required the pressure of
the authority of the Board for their settlement, it is very
satisfactory to see that they were all conducted without
the necessity for any intervention of the law. All the
slaughter-houses and cow-houses in the Sub-district were,
as usual, examined and reported on prior to the annual
renewal of their owners' licenses.
In conclusion, it is hoped that the very favourable
state of health which this Sub-district obtained during the
two past years, and the existence of which has been fully
disclosed by the foregoing statistics, will continue to be
sustained by the persevering and continous employment
of all those numerous details of sanitation which may be
fairly assumed to have contributed in a very considerable
degree to the production of so desirable an attainment.
GEORGE EDWARD NICHOLAS, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth.