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Wandsworth 1889
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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merits of the sub-district; and I have much pleasure in
testifying to tlie satisfactory manner in which the Sanitary
Inspectors have fulfilled their respective duties.
The remarkably low death-rate, high birth-rate and
low rate of infant mortality, with the other statistics
exponent of the public health recorded in the foregoing
pages, furnish most conclusive and reliable evidence of
the unprecedentedly high status of the health of the
sub district during the year 1889.
GEORGE EDWARD NICHOLAS, M.D.,
Medical Officer o) Health for Wandsworth
May, 20tli 1890.