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City of London 1852
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THE
SANITARY CONDITION
OF THE
CITY OF LONDON.
Mr. SIMON'S FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT.
To the Hon. the Commissioners of Sewers of
the City of London.
Upper Grosvenor Street,
Nov. 29th, 1853.
Gentlemen,
According to the practice of previous years, I
lay before you, in the annexed tables, a brief digest
of your death-register for the fifty-two weeks which
terminated at Michaelmas last.
The deaths there enumerated amount to 3040—
being 24 fewer than in the last-preceding similar
period.
Beyond these statistics of the past year, there are
other facts which I have thought it well to tabulate
for your information. They relate to the entire
term of five years, during which I have kept record
of your mortality. Midway in this quinquennial