Report on the health and sanitary condition of the several parishes comprised in the Wandsworth District during the year 1893.

  • Wandsworth (London, England). Board of Works.
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[1894]
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Credit: Report on the health and sanitary condition of the several parishes comprised in the Wandsworth District during the year 1893. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    39 conference adopted a resolution in favour of an extension of the definition of the word drain in the Metropolis Management Acts, and decided to present a memorial to the London County Council asking the Council to insert in one of its Bills for the amendment of* those Acts a pro vision carrying into effect the suggested extended defini tion. This memorial is now under the consideration of the Council. Death of a Member and Officers. The Board regret to have to record the death of Mr. S. F. Sloper, one of the Members for the parish of Wandsworth; also of Dr. G. E. Nicholas, after the long service of 38 years as Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, his appointment dating from the establishment of the Board in January, 1856, by the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855; and of Mr. G. Phimister, who had been engaged as a Sanitary Inspector for Streatham for 13 years.
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