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The facts disclosed by the statistical information
contained in this lleport, whether considered in relation to
the lowness of the death-rate, the high birth-rate, the
diminution of the fatality from epidemic diseases, the
resistance to the pressure of a severe epidemic or the
other exponents of the state of the public health, lead to
the irresistible conclusion that the "Wandsworth District
enjoyed a high sanitary status during the year 1881. It
is hoped that the same measures which have been so
successfully adopted in the repression of the outbreaks
of contagious disease that occurred, especially
those which relate to the disinfection of houses (and in
which the greatest confidence is placed by the Medical
Officers of Health) may be continued; for it is scarcely
to be expected that, in a constantly increasing population,
so low a rate of mortality as that which prevailed
last year can be maintained without a persistent employment
of such measures, together with a continuous and
persevering application of all those minor details of
preventive sanitation which, in the aggregate constitute
the real sanitary defences of the public health.