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unheeded. It is a source of satisfaction to note that
by its operation the houses of all classes, but especially
of the working classes, have been rendered better adapted
for the maintenance of health and the prevention of
disease, that occupiers have acquired a better knowledge
of what is right and wrong in the structural arrangements
relating to the sanitary requirements of their
houses; and that as a consequence, the visit of the
inspector, instead of as formerly being resented as an intrusion,
is now welcomed and often invited as a
benefaction.
GEORGE EDWARD NICHOLAS, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth.