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MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT,
1869.
Annual Report on the Health of the Parish of St. Martin-in-theFields
for the Year 1869.
In the Year 1869 there have been 576 births and 594
deaths. Reckoning the number of inhabitants in the
parish at about 20,000, this gives the most approximate
death-rate to be 25 per thousand.
A complaint was lately made that Bedfordbury and
the neighbouring courts were in a very bad state in relation
to dirt and want of whitewashing, &c. I have
been in the habit of reporting such houses as require
cleansing and whitewashing as soon in the year as the
weather is mild enough for workmen to perform these
operations without danger to the inhabitants, more
especially the children. A large number of the houses
have been cleansed and repaired, for I am happy to say I
find little or no difficulty in getting many landlords to do
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