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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 Martin-in-the-Fields 1869

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]

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rate, for there may be much sickness without any
increase of the average number of deaths; or the epidemic
and prevailing diseases may be of a more or less
fatal nature. We may have an increase of deaths
without any increase of cases of sickness from the more
fatal nature of the diseases which have most generally
prevailed.
LIONEL J. BEALE, M.R.C.S.,
Medical Officer of Health.