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City of London 1849
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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SUGGESTED ALTERATIONS IN ACT. 107
me now, in the attempt to discharge so grave a
duty, if I had spared any pains or withholden any
conviction.
While endeavouring in this, and in my previous
Report, faithfully and in detail to depict for you the
actual condition of human life within the City, and
while seeking to deduce for you, from reason and
experience, those sanitary principles which are applicable
for its improvement, I have had no trivial
or easy task; and you will pardon me, I hope, both
if I have incompletely surmounted the difficulties
of so large a subject, and if, by the length of my
Report, I have made too great claims on your indulgence.
I have the honour to remain,
Gentlemen,
Your obedient faithful servant,
JOHN SIMON.