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City of London 1851
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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THE
SANITARY CONDITION
of the
CITY OF LONDON.
Mr. SIMON'S FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT.
To the Hon. the Commissioners of Sewers of
the City of London.
Lancaster Place, September 28th, 1852.
Gentlemen,
I beg leave to lay before your Honourable Court
the several tables which I have prepared, to illustrate
the mortality of the City of London during
the past year. They refer to fifty-two weeks, dating
from September 28th, 1851, to September 25th,
1852.
In the first table I have distributed the 3,064
deaths of the period, according to their localities and
seasons ; showing them as they occurred, male and
female, during each quarter of the year, in the