London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of London 1850
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
This page requires JavaScript
the
SANITARY CONDITION
OF THE
CITY OF LONDON.
Mr. SIMON'S THIRD ANNUAL REPORT.
To the Hon. the Commissioners of Sewers of
the City of London.
Lancaster Place, November 25th, 1851.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour of laying before you, in the
various subjoined tables, such information as will
enable you to measure the present sanitary condition
of the City of London.
1. The first table (Appendix, No. I.) contains a
statement of the present population of the City, as
derived from the Registrar-General's recent census;
and it compares the existing numbers in each
division of the City with those given at the last
enumeration in 1841.
In examining this table you will observe that,
during these ten years, the general population of