Report of the Medical Officer of Health of the City of London, upon the New River water, and the church yard of St. Andrew's, Holborn / presented to the Commissioners of Sewers, Tuesday, 11th December, 1855.

  • City of London (England). Commissioners of Sewers.
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1855
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Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health of the City of London, upon the New River water, and the church yard of St. Andrew's, Holborn / presented to the Commissioners of Sewers, Tuesday, 11th December, 1855. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT Of the Medical Officer of Health of the City of London, referred to in the jpreceding Report. To THE Honorable Commissioners of Sewers OF THE City of London acting as the Burial Board for the said City. As the Medical Officer of Health to the City of London, I have been requested to express my opinion of certain statements recently made by the Venerable Archdeacon Hale in his Charge to the Clergy of London, and also to the churchwardens of this city, at the parish church of St. Sepulchre's, Snow Hill. These statements are to the effect that, Intramural burial in England is not in- jurious to the pubhc health. Experience, says the Archdeacon, proves that within certain locahties certain diseases are engendered, and that the traveller who remains there for a certain time is sure to contract the disease; but no such effects have been known to follow from temporary or constant residence near or upon any church-yard in England. Neither has it been proved that church- yards send forth emanations which are deleterious.''