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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 1873
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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The passages of the Courts leading out of Bedfordbury
were all limewashed in the spring. The pipe
sewers during the summer months have been regularly
flushed, and the gullies in the streets also flushed with
carbolic acid and water.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
JOHN J, SKEGG,
Medical Officer of Health.