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  REPORTS
  RELATING TO
  THE SANITARY CONDITION
  OF THE
  CITY OF LONDON.

  BY
  JOHN SIMON, F.R.S.
  SURGEON TO ST. THOMAS’S HOSPITAL, AND
  OFFICER OF HEALTH TO THE CITY.

  LONDON:
  JOHN W. PARKER AND SON, WEST STRAND.
  MDCCCLIV.


  LONDON:
  SAVILL AND EDWARDS, PRINTERS, CHANDOS STREET,
  COVENT GARDEN.


  TO
  LOUIS MICHAEL SIMON,
  OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE, LONDON, AND OF
  THE PARAGON, BLACKHEATH,
  I DEDICATE THIS REPRINT OF MY REPORTS:
  LOOKING
  LESS TO WHAT LITTLE INTRINSIC MERIT THEY MAY HAVE,
  THAN TO THE YEARS OF ANXIOUS LABOUR THEY REPRESENT:
  DEEMING IT FIT TO ASSOCIATE
  MY FATHER’S NAME
  WITH A RECORD OF ENDEAVOURS TO DO MY DUTY:
  BECAUSE IN THIS HE HAS BEEN MY BEST EXAMPLE;
  AND
  BECAUSE I COUNT IT THE HAPPIEST INFLUENCE IN MY LOT,
  THAT, BOUND TO HIM BY EVERY TIE OF GRATEFUL AFFECTION,
  I