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Paddington 1872

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]

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The following Publications and Reports on Public Heatlh
have been received, and are acknowledged with thanks:—
Summary of a Comprehensive Measure for the improvement of the Sanitary Laws,
by W. H. Rumsey, M.D., &c., F.R.C.S., &c.
Hospital Out-Patient Reforms, No. I. Facts and Figures, by H. Nelson Hardy, Esq.,
F.R.C.S.E, &c. On Out-Patient Relief, by one of the Governors of St. George's
Hospital.
Model Houses for the Industrial Classes; Plans for adaptations of existing dwellings
for letting in Flats, by Banister Fletcher, Esq.; on the Warming of Houses, by
J. P. Seddon, Esq., M.I.B.A., &c.; Homes for the Working Classes, with
suggestions for their improvements, by James Hole, Esq., from the Author;
Domestic Sanitary Hints and Arrangements, necessary to comfort and health, by
Robert Rawlinson, Esq., C.B., C.E.
Social Economy for the Upper Classes of Primary Schools, by J. E. Thorold Rogers,
M.A., Tooke Professor of Economic Science at Oxford.
Reports of Medical Officers of Health:—on the Sanitary Condition of Whitechapel,
by John Liddle, Esq.; of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington, by Dr.T.O. Dud field;
of St. James,' Westminster, by Dr. Lankester; of the Poplar District, by
Drs. Woodforde and Ellison; of Mile End Old Town, by Dr. Corner; of the
Thames' Shipping Committee, Oct. 1872; of Islington, by W. H Corfield, M.A.,
of the Metropolitan District Asylum Board on the Small Pox Epidemic of
1871; of the Stockwell Fever and Small Pox Hospital; of the Hommerton Fever
Hospital.
Report of the Sewage Inquiry Committee of Birmingham in 1871.
Journals received:—The Dublin Magazine; Article on Juvenile Smoking; Lancet;
Medical Times & Gazette; British Medical Journal; The Medical Record; Air,
Food and Water, in relation to Public Health; the Food Journal.
Drake and Stridder's Illustrations of Sanitary and Hydraulic Articles.
Report on Gas impurities, by T. H. Adamson, Esq.; Report of T. W. Keates, F.C.S.,
and W. Odling, F.R.S., &c., on Dr. Eveleigh's Patent system of Manufacturing
Gas, and F. R. Mellor's Remarks thereon.