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Urban pests

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  • Sir John Simon (?) in his role as the first Medical Officer of Health for the City of London putting pressure on the Corporation of London to act upon the pestilential conditions of the graveyards in the City. Lithograph by Bolus, 1851.
  • Sir John Simon (?) in his role as the first Medical Officer of Health for the City of London putting pressure on the Corporation of London to act upon the pestilential conditions of the graveyards in the City. Lithograph by Bolus, 1851.
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    Sir John Simon (?) in his role as the first Medical Officer of Health for the City of London putting pressure on the Corporation of London to act upon the pestilential conditions of the graveyards in the City. Lithograph by Bolus, 1851.

    Bolus, active 1851. | Date: 1851 | Reference: 16130i
    • Books

    House guests, house pests : a natural history of animals in the home / Richard Jones.

    Jones, Richard, 1958 July 14- | Date: 2015
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    Verminous conditions in London / report by the county medical officer of health as to measures for improving verminous conditions in London.

    Hamer, William Heaton, 1862-1936 | Date: [1921?]
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    Pests in the city : flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats / Dawn Day Biehler.

    Biehler, Dawn. | Date: [2013]
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