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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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interest of capital and working expenses, at an annual charge
of £150,000. Also, the chalk strata could yield large
supplies. If this be true, surely the days of the Thames
Water Companies are numbered.
ALEXANDER WALKER, M.D.,
Medical Officer for Putney
and Roehampton.