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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 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: NUMBER OF VOLUMES IN STOCK on 31ST MARCH, 1907,andVOLUMES ISSUED from ist APRIL, 1906, to 3ist MARCH, 1907.

NUMBER OF VOLUMES IN STOCK on 31ST MARCH, 1907,

and

VOLUMES ISSUED from ist APRIL, 1906, to 3ist MARCH, 1907.

Vols, in Stock.Vols, issued during year.
Lending Library :—----
Theology, Philosophy, and Ecclesiastical
History605752
History, Biography, and Correspondence2,4953.975
Travel and Topography9102,627
Arts, Sciences, and Natural History1,6865.389
Poetry and the Drama457968
Prose Fiction ...3.84865.393
Miscellaneous Literature1.0492,005
Juvenile Works9833.613
>2.03394.722
Reference Library3,260*4,874
Total'5.29399,596
* Entirely exclusive of Books in " Open Cases," of the issue of which no record is taken.
Number of Borrowers enrolled in Lending Library on 31st March, 19073,644
[Days open 242. Daily average issue—412 vols.]

Table: books issued from 1889 to 1907.

books issued from 1889 to 1907.

Year.Lending Library.*Reference Library.Total.
1889—9083,1045.11988,523
1890—9184,4584,92489,382
1891—92*6,4755,11291,587
1892-93830734,21287,285
1893—9480,6154,07684,691
1894—9?87,4223.51 590,937
1895—9682,3173,35685,673
1896—9775.6762,4677,8143
1897—98£7,7592,27570,034
1898—9967,0432,14269.1:5
1899—190068,1691.94470,113
1900—c171,8172,02671,843
1901—c270.8481,90972.817
1902—c375,1712,58777.558
1903—c485,3652,82988,104
1904—c591,1304.75395,883
1505—c694,2296,S22101,051
1906—c794.7224.87499,596
* Reference library.—Entirely exclusive of Boi.ks in "Open Cases,'of the issue of which no record is taken.