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[Illustration: THE CENTRE OF LONDON IN 1658, REPRODUCED FROM NEWCOURT’S
MAP.
[_Frontispiece._
]
LONDON
(Ancient and Modern)
_From the Sanitary and Medical
Point of View._
BY
G. V. POORE, M.D., F.R.C.P.
CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED:
_London, Paris, New York & Melbourne_.
1889.
PREFACE.
This little book is an expansion of two addresses delivered in January,
1889.
One of these addresses, which deals with the Sanitary Aspects of
Ancient and Modern London, was given in the Parkes Museum of the
Sanitary Institute, and was written for a mixed audience. The other
formed the subject of the annual address to the Students’ Medical
Society at University College, London, and was written for an audience
which might be expected to have a special interest in the History of
Medicine in London.
Both have already appeared in print; the first in _Public Health_, the
journal of the Society of Medical Officers of Health; and the second
in the _Lancet_. For the loan of most of the woodcuts the author is
indebted to the Publishers of the _Lancet_, who kindly undertook, when
the lecture was appearing in their columns, to illustrate it with
five illustrations, which were made especially for the purpose. One
illustration has been supplied by the proprietors of _Public Health_,
and four have been borrowed from “Cassell’s Old and New London.”
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
LONDON FROM THE SANITARY POINT OF VIEW.
PAGE
SITUATION 7
WATER SUPPLY 10
MEDIÆVAL LONDON 16
GARDENS AND PLEASURE GROUNDS 18
HEALTH OF OLD LONDON 24
THE LONDON “DEATH RATE” 31
IMPROVED CONDITION OF MODERN LONDON 34
WHAT IS THE OUTLOOK? 36
ANNUAL DEATH-RATE PER 100,000 LIVING OF CHILDREN UNDER 5 YEARS
OF AGE FROM WHOOPING-COUGH AND MEASLES DURING THE 10 YEARS
1871-80 41
THE LOOSE END OF OUR SANITATION 44