Reports Relating to the Sanitary Condition of the City of London

Statistics can give you no conception of this crowding. If you refer to the results of the last census, you find the average population _per_ house, in the City of London Union...

To the application of these principles (together with a sufficient and appropriate distribution of water) far more than to chemical agents, or to the invention of mechanical tra...

First, I believe that everything which cheapens the cost of burial, will conduce to such a result; for, among the poor, one considerable cause of procrastination must often be t...

Whether the ferment, which induces this particular change in certain elements of our atmosphere, may ever be some accident of local origin, or must always be the creeping infect...

And in most of these localities, in addition to other sanitary errors, there predominates that particular one to which I am now inviting your attention--the absence, namely, of...

To provide an inoffensive outfall for the sewerage of our vast population; to render the river a source of unqualified advantage; to give wide extension and sounder principles t...

From the eminently local prevalence of the poison, it may be inferred that, for all whose circumstances allow an option in the matter, the first and most important precaution wo...

While addressing you on this subject, and while congratulating your Hon. Court on the fact, that public attention is so much directed to a matter in which your exertions are cer...

The number of slaughter-houses at present registered and tolerated within the City amounts to 138, and in 58 of these the slaughtering occurs in vaults and cellars. How overwhel...

This water was selected as exemplifying the general composition of the shallow well-water of the City of London, when the well is situated near to a burial-ground, as is frequen...

Is water thus constituted in any degree detrimental to the health of those who drink it? It is not in a single word that this question can be fairly answered. Almost insuperable...

It would be ridiculous if I should pretend to carry you into any medical consideration of this subject, or should make my present Report the vehicle of a professional argument;...

What those alterations must be, it would now be premature to decide. The experience of Aberdeen might seem to suggest, that the system of constant supply (on all other accounts...

Nor must it be lost sight of, that if the _deaths_ by typhus double in number those produced by cholera, the list of _persons attacked_ by the former disease, and thereby for a...

Before my first enlistment in the service of public health, others had fought this great cause with rare courage and devotion; establishing its main principles in a manner to re...

With respect to the ordinary arrangement of your ground for public purposes, and the distribution of burials therein, you may estimate that, taking one grave with another, and a...

In my two former Reports, I have addressed you at length on those conditions relative to the dwellings and social habits of the poor which made the enactments of this clause ind...

TO LOUIS MICHAEL SIMON, OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE, LONDON, AND OF THE PARAGON, BLACKHEATH, I DEDICATE THIS REPRINT OF MY REPORTS: LOOKING LESS TO WHAT LITTLE INTRINSIC MERIT THEY MA...

In George-street, St. Giles’s, a model lodging-house has been established, affording accommodation to 104 single men, and combining everything essential to such an establishment...

1. It forms an all-important part of these considerations for resistance to the disease, to recognise quite accurately what is its fashion of attack. Since I last addressed you...

In some respects this sort of protection is even more necessary, as well as more deficient, in regard to _the falsification of drugs_. The College of Physicians and the Apotheca...

Possibly it may occur to you that these comparisons are devoid of practical application--that it is unreasonable to suppose we can mitigate our London death-rate to the likeness...

+-------+------+---------+-------+-------+--------+-------------+ | | No. | | | | |Number | | | on |Flooring.| Fire- |Venti- | Rent. |of | | |door. | |place. |lators.| |Inmates....

+-----------------+-----------------------------------------+------+ | | CITY OF LONDON UNION. |Totals| |DEATHS in five +------+------+------+------+------+------+ for | |Autumn...

Claudius Ptolemy and the Nile; or, an Inquiry into that Geographer’s real merit and speculative errors, his knowledge of Eastern Africa, and the authenticity of the Mountains of...

These are the heads under which it has appeared to me that the most useful additions might be made to your Act of Parliament, in matters within the scope of my official observat...

X. Comparative Mortality in different seasons of the year: namely, in the Autumn-Quarters (October, November, December), in the Winter-Quarters (January, February, March), in th...

+------------------+-------------------------+-----------------------+ |DEATHS in the four| EAST LONDON UNION. | WEST LONDON UNION. | |quarterly periods,+--------+--------+-----...