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To the Board of Works of the Wandsworth District,
Gentlemen,
We have the honour to present the twonty-eighth
Annual Report on the health and sanitary condition of
the Wandsworth District, being for the year 1883.
The same arrangement in its construction has been
adopted as that hitherto employed, of separate reports
of our respective sub-districts, prefaced by a general
report on the condition of the entiie district, and illustrated
by a series of statistical tables. By these comprehensive
means which have been found best adapted for comparing
existing conditions with those of former years as well
as for furnishing the greatest amount of information
of local as well as general interest, we have the agreeable
duty of bringing to your notice the favourable state of
health that prevailed during the past year.
It would appear opportune at the present time to
draw your attention also to the great diminution in the
mortality that has taken place during the 28 years
comprising your official existence. No clearer demonstration
of the successful result of your sanitary supervision
of this extensive and populous district is required than
that afforded by the figures on page 8 of this report,
wherein the gradual but great reduction of the