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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
Hanover Square 1863
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hanover Square, The Vestry of the Parish of Saint George]
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Complaints were made in January by the inhabitants
of the Belgrave sub-district, and were communicated from
the Committee to the Chelsea Company, respecting the
water supplied to that district. It was milky in appearance,
and contained, on January 14th, total impurity,
19.8, organic ditto, 3.33. The organic matter had increased,
whilst the inorganic had diminished.
C. J. B. A.