[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)].

  • Wandsworth (London, England). Board of Works.
Date:
1875
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth District, The Board of Works (Clapham, Putney, Streatham, Tooting & Wandsworth)]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    16 well support those which the Health Officer of Putney has ventured to make on the importance of all children in schools being systematically instructed in elementary physiology, and the laws which govern their own organiza tions in both health and disease. Upon this subject it may be further remarked that even School Board Officials would be rendered none the worse agents of such Boards if they understood a little more than some of them appear to do at present concerning the laws of health, and of the delicate organizations of those they are, by virtue of their offices, so often called upon to deal with.* There are also, in all the contributions to this Report, remarks and suggestions which it is hoped may sufficiently attract the attention of everyone residing in, or having any interest in the sanitary welfare of the locality, as to lead to a general acquiescence in all sound and desirable measures that may be projected with the view to improve the neighbourhood, to lower the death-rates of the several parishes which comprise the District, and to sustain the efficiency of those works already carried out. Attention likewise may here be invited to the suggestions to be found in the Summary of West Battersea as to the establishment of a mortuary in that locality, and of a disinfecting station for the accommodation of the entire District. In the Summaries of Wandsworth, Clapham, Streatham, and Putney, there are also scattered remarks upon several of the same questions as those already noticed in the Battersea Reports, and, like them, they contain many allusions to the reforms which appear to be neces sitated in Coroners' Courts, the evils of suffering the registration of deaths without medical certificates or other inquiry, the defective water supply, the success, as well as the failure, of endeavours to remove or abate certain * See Wandsworth Local Summary.