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 1897
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1897
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forth into the atmosphere of volumes of dense
smoke to the annoyance of their neighbours,
the obstruction of daylight, and injury to
property.
In apportioning the amount of responsibility
attaching to persons contributing to
the smoke nuisance, we should, in fairness to
traders, consider the effect produced by the
enormous number of coal fires existing in the
City in the thousands of offices therein where
soft coal only is consumed. These must
very largely outnumber the fireplaces used by
restaurant keepers.
The assistance of the Police has also been
invoked and courteously accorded by the
Commissioner (in the forms shewn in A
and B attached hereto).