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To the Board of Works for the Wandsworth District.
GENTLEMEN,
We have the honour to present our Report for
the year 1885 on the vital statistics and sanitary condition
of the Wandsworth District.
In this, the 30th Annual Report presented to your
Board, we have followed the general arrangement of
matter adopted in previous years. It is hoped, however,
that the additional matter which will be found in the
following pages will enhance the value and interest of
the report. These additional matters are, in particular,
Dr. Muter's Analytical Report, the returns of patients in
the Asylums Board Hospitals, the returns of Deaths in
outlying Institutions, and the Death.rate at various age.
groups in the census year.
We have to congratulate you on a lower rate of
mortality than in any of the ten preceding years, and
to assure you that no efforts will be lacking on the part
of the officers of the Safritary Department to ensure
a continuance of this low mortality, especially from
those diseases which are known to be most amenable to
sanitary precautions.
We have the honour to remain,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servants,
The Associated Medical Officers
of the Wandsworth District.
May 24th, 1886.