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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Marylebone 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone]
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24 SANITARY CHRONICLES, 1898.
dead ends. It appears from a recent report of Dr.
Orme Dudfield that a sample taken from a dead end in
the Parish of Kensington showed signs of pollution,
and Dr. Edward Frankland has also proved that the
water in the sluggish part of a main may exhibit considerable
difference of composition to the general supply.
In 1899, therefore, the writer may have an opportunity
of, from time to time, investigating this matter.