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REPORT,
1881.
To the Board of Works of the Wandsworth District.
Gentlemen,
In submitting to your notice this our twentysixth
Annual Report, containing a review of the health
and sanitary condition of the Wandsworth District, we
have the very gratifying duty of recording the occurrence
during the year 1881 of the lowest rate of mortality
which has obtained since your Board first assumed
jurisdiction of this extensive and important suburb.
Such a satisfactory result is matter for unmixed congratulation,
inasmuch as it has been attained in the presence
of an epidemic of general prevalence and great severity,
and in face of the sanitary disadvantages arising from a
more condensed population. Trustworthy evidence of
this successful issue of your sanitary supervision is herein
presented, for the most part, in the form of statistics
which are, as usual, tabulated as far as possible for the
purpose of ensuring facility of reference and of comparison
with those of former years.
We have the honour to remain,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servants,
The Medical Officers of Health of the
Wandsworth District.
June, 1882.