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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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To the Board of Works for the Wandsworth District.
Gentlemen,
We have the honour to present our Report for the
year 1889, on the vital statistics and sanitary condition
of the Wandsworth District.
The same plan has been followed in framing the
report, as that which we have adopted in former years.
The report for the year is highly satisfactory from
a Sanitary point of view
We have had no great epidemic waves of infectious
disease to encounter, and the result has been that we
have greatly reduced death-rates, especially the deathrate
resulting from Zymotic diseases. The Sanitary
work of the district goes on smoothly, and with an increasing
degree of efficiency.
We have the honour to remain,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servants,
The Medical Officers of Health for the
Wandsworth District.