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 1878
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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works, estimates that London may be supplied with 100
million gallons of fresh water daily from Wales, at an
expenditure of £470,000 annually. The sum we now pay
for the feculent water of the Thames is computed to
amount to £1,283,548. This estimate would make an
annual saving of £813,548 in favour of those who are now
doomed to drink the water of the Thames.
JOHN MAC DONOGH,
Medical Officer of Health, Clapham.