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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 1876
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PAGE
Marriages 3
Births 4
Deaths 7
Conclusion of Report on Small-Pox Epidemic, 1876-1878. 8
(As found in Appendix.)
Water Supply and Analysis 14
River and Spring Water and their relative purity 19
The " Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875," and Analyses made 22
The Mortuary 24
Sanitary Work 25, 32
Summonses 26, 32
Slaughter Houses and Cow Houses 28, 33
Dusting of the Parish 28, 34
Conclusion 35
Tables 40-47
APPENDIX, CONTAINING —
Report of Medical Officer of Health, and of
Sanitary Committee upon the Small-Pox
Epidemic, 1876-7, with Tables and Diagram 48-71