An Act for the more speedy removal of certain nuisances, and to enable the Privy Council to make regulations for the prevention of contagious and epidemic diseases until the thirty-first day of August ... [1847].
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Credit: An Act for the more speedy removal of certain nuisances, and to enable the Privy Council to make regulations for the prevention of contagious and epidemic diseases until the thirty-first day of August ... [1847]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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