London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
City of London 1894
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1894
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way abrogates their powers as the Local
Sanitary Authority for the City of London.
As a matter of fact your own Inspectors of
Slaughter-houses and Meat never fail to seize
and destroy any putrid or unsound fish discovered
by them in the shops of retail fishmongers,
or at the Fish Market at Farringdon
Road during the absence of the Special
Inspector of the Fishmongers Company.
The fish seized by your inspectors is
included in my weekly report of their proceedings.
I am indebted to the official reports of the
Corporation, and the Fishmongers Company
for some of the statistics contained in the
foregoing pages.