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
St James's 1861
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]
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health every effort must be continued, or the parish
may again sink into the condition in which it became
the prey of pestilence, and had to pay in the death
of its community, the penalty of disregard of those
laws by which the Creator governs the life of the
world.
I am,
Rev. Sir, My Lords, and Gentlemen,
Your most devoted Servant,
EDWIN LANKESTER.