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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 1868

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St James's, Westminster]

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Average death rate in 10 years, from 1846 to 1856775
Average death rate from 1857 to 1860717
Average death rate from 1861 to 1864768
Average death rate from 1864 to 1868707

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I would here call your attention to the Sanitary
Inspectors' Report for 1868, which you will find
in the Appendix to this Report, and from which
you will see the nature of the nuisances removed.
This removal is not always the mere superficial
removal of dirt, and the sources of dangerous and
contagious effluvia, but permanent works are
executed which are beneficial to the population for