London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Bethnal Green 1889
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]
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kind I have indicated, develop cleanly habits amongst the people.
Impervious paving, substituted for mud, encourages the use of the
scrubbing brush, cleanliness takes the place of dirt and squalor,
purer air is breathed, the health and strength of the inhabitants
improves, better wages are earned, the landlord's rent is more
regularly paid, pauperism is warded off, and the rates are thus
economized by money paid for Sanitary Inspection.