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Reports Relating to the Sanitary Condition of the City of London

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Reports Relating to the Sanitary Condition of the City of London

John Simon

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As London's first medical officer of health, John Simon reported on the city's drains, water, dangerous trades and unlivable houses year after year. His collected reports read as a running diagnosis of a great capital's sanitary ills. A cornerstone of Victorian public health from one of its architects. Follow the official who mapped London's path to cleaner streets.

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  1. 1REPORTS RELATING TO THE SANITARY CONDITION OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
  2. 2CONTENTS.
  3. 3PREFACE.
  4. 4FIRST ANNUAL REPORT.
  5. 5HOUSE-DRAINAGE.
  6. 6WATER-SUPPLY.
  7. 7OFFENSIVE AND INJURIOUS TRADES.
  8. 8INTRAMURAL BURIAL.
  9. 9HOUSES PERMANENTLY UNFIT FOR HABITATION.
  10. 10SOCIAL CONDITION OF THE POOR.
  11. 11SUGGESTIONS FOR SANITARY ORGANISATION IN THE CITY.
  12. 12FURTHER REMARKS ON WATER-SUPPLY.
  13. 13SECOND ANNUAL REPORT.
  14. 14I. Mortality of the City of London.
  15. 15II. The Causes and the Prevention of Endemic Disease.
  16. 16Sub-soil Drainage, House-Drainage, and Sewerage.
  17. 17Water-Supply.
  18. 18Offensive or injurious Trades.

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