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great evil connected with this subject, I pointed out in my
last report, and in some previous ones, viz.: the connection
which is permitted to exist in so many houses between
water·closets and cisterns. This is a great evil, which a
little engineering skill, I am convinced, might easily
overcome. I regret to find so little consideration given to
this subject, seeing that we have had so many warnings
from districts stricken by disease and death, traceable to
the cause I have named.
On some other subjects of sanitation I would refer
my readers to the general report applying to the entire
District, where will be found many observations in which
I fully coincide.
JOHN MAC DONOGH,
Medical Officer of Health
for Clapham.