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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 1870
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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place is no sooner cleaned than it is again made more
filthy. The population has been greatly increased by
the pulling down of houses for the new Law Courts,
many of whose inhabitants came to Bedfordbury and
neighbourhood.''
JOHN J. SKEGG,
Medical Officer of Health.