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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 Westminster 1902

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]

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together with proper disinfectants or vegetable charcoal, as required.
Remove such cases of human remains, in conveyance duly screened
from public view, to the Necropolis Private Station, 121, Westminster
Bridge lioad, and then per funeral train to Brookwood cemetery. The
whole work to be carried out in a proper and reverential manner, under
my personal supervision. "
The remains removed are estimated to be those of about 6,500
persons. In only one instance was the inscription on the coffin plate
legible, viz., that of Mrs. Martha Ibbott, who died on the 9th February,
1818, aged 76 years.
HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY, ST. MARTIN'S LANE.