Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]
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tion, and on looking further into details it will be found
due to comparative neglect of systematic house-to-house
inspection. This is, in our opinion, very unfortunate,
as we have always regarded it as a particularly important
part of the sanitary work of the district, and we are
certain that the system of finding out nuisances and
unhealthy conditions, without waiting for people to come
and complain of them, has been the great means in the
past of bringing this district into so satisfactory a state.
It cannot be maintained in such a condition, however, if
any relaxation in systematic inspection is allowed.