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City of London 1854
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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THE
SANITARY CONDITION
of the
CITY OF LONDON.
SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT.
To the Honorable the Commissioners of
Sewers of the City of London.
Upper Grosvenor Street,
October 9th, 1855.
Gentlemen,
To-day, as the last act of my
official connexion with your Hon. Court, I have
to lay before you the various mortuary tables,
prepared, according to my annual practice, to illustrate
the sanitary condition of the City during the
twelve-month terminating at Michaelmas.
You will see that in the fifty-three weeks for
which these tables account, there have died out of