London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
City of London 1848
Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1848-9
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HOUSES PERMANENTLY UNFIT FOR HABITATION. 53
with immediate rapidity. It is my great hope,
however, that the principle may be distinctly recognized;
and that the City will not tolerate
within its municipal jurisdiction the continuance
of houses absolutely incompatible with healthy
habitation. This principle being once established,
and a certain annual expenditure devoted to enforce
it, I feel assured that within a few years
opportunities will have arisen for that outlay to
have been made in the most judicious manner, and
for its results amply to have demonstrated the
advantages of the system which I recommend.