Reports relating to the sanitary condition of London / By John Simon.

  • Simon, John, Sir, 1816-1904.
Date:
MDCCCLIV [1854]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Reports relating to the sanitary condition of London / By John Simon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    PREFACE. The following Reports, officially addressed to the Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London, were originally printed only for the use of the Corporation; and although, to my very great pleasure, they have been extensively circulated through the medium of the daily press, there has continued so frequent an application for separate copies that the surplus-stock at Guildhall has long been exhausted. Under these circumstances—be- lieving the Reports may have some future interest, as belonging to an important educational period in the matters to which they refer, I have requested the Commission to allow their collective reprint and publication; and this indulgence having been kindly accorded me, I have gathered into the present volume all my Annual Reports, together with a special Report suggesting arrangements for extramural burial. From the nature of the work, I have not con- sidered myself at liberty to make those extensive alterations of text which usually belong to a second edition. I have restricted myself to a few verbal