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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
ON THE
Sanitary Condition of the District
FOR THE YEAR 1911.
To the Chairman and Members of the Urban
District Council of Hampton Wick.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my Third
Annual Report on the Sanitary Circumstance, the Sanitary
Administration and the Vital Statistics of the
Urban District of Hampton Wick for the year 1911.
The chief features of interest in this Report include
a description of the outbreak of Epidemic Diarrhoea in
the summer which caused a high Infantile Mortality,
also of the Housing Accommodation and the Water
Supply, and the fact that your Council have acquired
a Formalin Sprayer for disinfecting purposes.
SITE, AREA, PHYSICAL FEATURES AND
GENERAL CHARACTER OF THE DISTRICT.
The District is situated in the southern part of the
County of Middlesex, and is bordered on its southern
and eastern aspects for a distance of over three miles
by the River Thames. A towpath extends along two
and two thirds miles of this distance.