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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wandsworth 1887
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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crease the number of private slaughter-houses. What is
much needed is the erection of a public abattoir for the
entire district, to take the place of these private slaughterhouses,
which are year by year becoming fewer in
number.
Wm. Y. ORR, M.B.,
Medical Officer of Health for Putney and Roehampton.