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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
Willesden 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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But it would be a dangerous error to assume that a fortunate
accident will justify an indefinite postponement of action which the
permanent probabilities call for. To hazard security because good
fortune has chanced to attend a compromise with the unknown is an
indifferent return for the favour upon which occasional reliance is
haply entitled to be placed.