London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Islington 1912

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Metropolitan Borough of]

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" The Great White Plague of the North."
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
" Seed of Consumption, hence ! "
Ben Jonson.
" The application of means to ends ensures victory."
Emmerson.
"What the community has caused, the community as a
mass alone can cure."
Dr. Woods Hutchinson.
" Preventable disease is the great agent for filling our Workhouses."
Joseph Chamberlain.
"The public health is the foundation on which rests the
happiness of the people and the power of a country. The
care of the public health is the first duty of a statesman."
Beaconsfield.
"Sanitary Instruction is even more important than Sanitary
Legislation."
Earl of Derby.