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REPORT,
1874.
To the Board of Works for the Wandsworth District.
Gentlemen,
The first Sanitary Report from this District was
rendered by the Medical Officers of Health in reference to
the year 1856, consequently the termination of a second
decade is near at hand, and one more Report only beyond
the present will have to be made to furnish a twenty
years' test of the efficiency of the sanitary measures carried
out under the auspices of your Board.
The present Report has been constructed on precisely
the same plan as those of former years, and although some
few suggestions have lately been made by several Health
Officers to considerably enlarge and extend the statistical
tables generally employed, we deem it inexpedient to make,
at present, any material alterations in our own mode of
proceeding ; but design to carefully consider the question
at some future time, as for instance at the commencement
of a fresh decennial period, when a change in the forms of
tables would be less likely to interfere with the facilities
for comparison now enjoyed by a continued use of those
in force.
We have the honor to be,
Gentlemen,
Your very obedient Servants,
The Medical Officers of Health of the
Wandsworth District.
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