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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
Islington 1862
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]
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the uncorrected mean of Augugt for six years being 34; the mean weekly
temperature, having been from 1 to 2-8 degrees below the average. The
number of cases of diarrhoea entered in the books of the parish surgeon
were only 115, the average of past six years being 229.
EDWARD BALLARD, M.D.,
Medical Officer of Health.
Vestry Offices,
Stptember 2nd, 1862.