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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 1888, on the vital statistics and sanitary condition
of the Wandsworth District.
The usual plan of framing the report has been adopted.
A general summary of the statistics affecting the whole
district, is followed by the different local reports which
deal more in detail with different matters affecting the
sub-districts.
This is the first Sanitary Report on the Wandsworth
District since the separation of the Parish of Battersea.
This naturally affects the statistics to a great extent, and
makes it more difficult to compare the figures in this
report with those of preceding years. We have tried
to get over this difficulty as much as possible by giving
in several tables two lines of figures, one including and
the other excluding Battersea.
This reportupon the whole is very encouraging, although
we have been visited by epidemics of Measles, Scarlatina
and "Whooping Cough of a rather serious nature through
the course of the year. We can assure you, however
that no efforts on our part have been wanting to check
the spread of these infectious disorders.
We have the honour to remain,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servants,
The Medical Officers of Health of the
Wandsworth Districts