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well support those which the Health Officer of Putney has
ventured to make on the importance of all children in
schools being systematically instructed in elementary
physiology, and the laws which govern their own organizations
in both health and disease. Upon this subject it
may be further remarked that even School Board Officials
would be rendered none the worse agents of such Boards
if they understood a little more than some of them appear
to do at present concerning the laws of health, and of the
delicate organizations of those they are, by virtue of their
offices, so often called upon to deal with.*
There are also, in all the contributions to this Report,
remarks and suggestions which it is hoped may sufficiently
attract the attention of everyone residing in, or having any
interest in the sanitary welfare of the locality, as to lead
to a general acquiescence in all sound and desirable
measures that may be projected with the view to improve
the neighbourhood, to lower the death-rates of the several
parishes which comprise the District, and to sustain the
efficiency of those works already carried out.
Attention likewise may here be invited to the
suggestions to be found in the Summary of West Battersea
as to the establishment of a mortuary in that locality,
and of a disinfecting station for the accommodation of the
entire District.
In the Summaries of Wandsworth, Clapham,
Streatham, and Putney, there are also scattered remarks
upon several of the same questions as those already noticed
in the Battersea Reports, and, like them, they contain
many allusions to the reforms which appear to be necessitated
in Coroners' Courts, the evils of suffering the
registration of deaths without medical certificates or other
inquiry, the defective water supply, the success, as well as
the failure, of endeavours to remove or abate certain
* See Wandsworth Local Summary.