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THE SANITARY EVOLUTION OF LONDON
by
HENRY JEPHSON, L.C.C.
Author of "The Platform: Its Rise and Progress"
"The discovery of the laws of public health, the determination
of the conditions of cleanliness, manners, water supply, food,
exercise, isolation, medicine, most favourable to life in one
city, in one country, is a boon to every city, to every country,
for all can profit by the experience of one."
G. GRAHAM, Registrar-General, 1871.
A. Wessels Company
Publishers
Brooklyn, N. Y.
MCMVII
DEDICATED
TO
THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL
BY ONE OF ITS MEMBERS
THE AUTHOR
4, CORNWALL GARDENS,
S.W.
CONTENTS
MAP _Facing page_ 1
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CHAPTER I 1