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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
Limehouse 1880
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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TO THE
BOARD OF WORKS
for the
LIMEHOUSE DISTRICT.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my Report on the
health and sanitary condition of the Limehouse District for the
year 1880.
During that period there were registered in the district
2,210 births, 1,344 deaths, and 484 marriages. From this number
of deaths, however, there must be deducted 54, which occurred
in the East London Hospital for Children, and were those of