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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 1908

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

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Existing Electoral division and proposed new divisions.Population Census 1901.Electorate 1908.Contents and boundaries of proposed new electoral divisions.
CLAPHAM —120,76127,805
East Clapham54,32512,812The ancient parish of Clapham.
West Clapham66,43614,993The part of the ancient parish of Battersea situated within the existing Clapham Division.
WANDSWORTH—179,76945,083
Putney58,01913,995Polling Districts Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, comprising approximately Putney and Southfield Wards and the part of Fairfield Ward living to the north of East Hill and St. John's Hill. The boundary of the new division runs along St. John's Hill, East Hill, High Street, Wandsworth, and the River Wandle.
Tooting57,49714,880Polling Districts Nos. 6, 7, 8 and 9, and that part of No. 10 lying to the west of Trinity Road and Tooling Bee Road, comprising approximately the remainder of Fairfield Ward, the Springfield and Tooting Wards and the south-western part of Balham Ward. It would consist of the middle portion of the existing Wandsworth di-vision, the boundary on the south-east being Trinity Road, Tooting Bee Road and the old parish boundary of Tooting Graveney.
Streatham64,25316,208The remainder of Polling District No. 13 and the whole of Polling Districts Nos. 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15. It comprises-approximately the whole ot Streatham Ward and the larger part of Balham Ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth, together with Streatham detached, now part of the Metropolitan Borough of Lambeth.