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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
Paddington 1865
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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SANITARY REPORT
FOR THE YEAR
18 6 5-66.
BY
J. BURDON-SANDERSON, M.D.,
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians,
Assistant Physician to Middlesex Hospital, and to the
Hospital for Consumption.
medical officer of health.
The following Rates have been levied:—
| Date. | Poor. | Lighting. | General. | Sewers. | Metropol Main Drainage. | Cliurch. | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| d. | d. | d. | d. | d. | d. | s. | d. | |
| April Rate, 1865 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 2 | — | ½ | 1 | 5 |
| October Rate, 1865. | 9 | 1½ | 5 | 4 | 3 | - | 1 | 7 |
| la. 5d. | 3d. | 10d | 2½d. | 2d. | ½d. | 3 | 0 | |