As regards age distribution of infants' deaths, as a general rule, it may be said that they diminish from the first month onwards to the twelfth. The following table gives the age incidence in Finsbury for 1902.
The claims of death at the two extremes of life, and the effect of season, are shown in the following table of total deaths, intra-parochial and extra-parochial:—
The deaths from Zymotic Diseases occurring in the Borough (intra-parochial and extra-parochial) during the year numbered 337, and were caused as follows:—
The following table illustrates the channels of infection and the sanitation of the houses in all those cases where infection could be at all traced, or the sanitation of the house was in any way open to criticism:—
SCARLET FEVER, The total number of notifications received during the year for Scarlet Fever was 381 as against last year's 495. The age and sex incidence was as follows :—
The relationship between the weekly number of deaths from Epidemic Diarrhæa and the temperature, as recorded by the four-foot earth thermometer, is shown the following Table :—
1. Consumption in Families.—The following table shows the number of cases in which there has been a history of family disease pointing in most cases, in all probability, to family infection:—
The condition of affairs at this period may be seen in the following figures, which, in addition to the marked insanitation, were the chiei cause of the condemnation:—
In the Census of 1891 it was found that the total number of tenements in Clerkenwell and St. Luke together were 26,188, 22,432 of which were tenements of less than five rooms:—
The following Table shows the various trades and occupation carried on in workshop and work-places in the Borough of Finsbury which are now on the workshop register of this Department:-
It will be understood that the above Table deals with articles which have been disinfected. The actual number of occupancies disinfected during the year are as follows:—
Small-pox
Scarlet Fever
Diphtheria
Enteric Fever
Puerperal Fever
Disinfections at request of Occupiers for non-infectious Diseases
VACCINATION RETURNS. Total Return fok 1901. Return made on or before 9th February, 1903, by Mr. T. J. Garstang, Vaccination Officer of the Holborn Union, respecting the Vaccination of Children whose Births were registered in the Finsbury District, from 1st January to 31st December, 1901, inclusive. (Return made to the Board of Guardians.)
Registration Sub-Districts comprised in the Vaccination Officer's District
Number ofBirths returned in the "Birth List Sheets" as registeredfrom 1st January to 31st Dec., 1901
Number of these Births duly entered by 31st January, 1903, in Columns I. 11, IV and V of the "Vaccination Register" (Birth List Sheets), viz:
Number of these Births which on 31st January, 1903. remained unentered in the - Vaccination Register" on account (as shuwu by Report Book; of:—
Number of these Births remaining on 31st January, 190$, neither duly entered in the" Vaccination Register" (columns 3. 4, 5, 6, and 7 of this Return) nor temporarily accounted for in the " Report Book" (columns 8, 9, and 10 of this Return)
Total Number of Certificates of Successful Primary Vaccination at ALLAGES received during each of the calendar years 1901 and 1902
Col 1Successfully Vaccinated
Col II
Col IVNumber in respect of whom Certificates of Conscientious Objection have been received
Col VDead. Un vaccinated
Postponement by Medical Certificate
Removal to Districts, the Vaccination Officer of which has been duly apprised
Removal to Places unknown, or which cannot be reached ; and Cases not having been found
VACCINATION RETURNS. Return for the Period January—June, 1902. Return to be made on or before Nth of February, 1903, by Mr. T. J. Garstang, Vaccination Officer of the Holborn Union, respecting the Vaccination of Children whose Births were registered in the Finsbury District, from 1st January to 30th June, 1902, inclusive. (Return made to the Hoard of Guardians.)
Registration sub-Districts comprised in the Vaccination Officer's District
Number ofBirths returned in the "Birth List Sheets" as registeredfrom 1st January to 30th .June.1902
Number of these Births duly entered by 31st January, 1903, in Columns I. II, IV and v of the •Vaccination Register" (Birth List Sheets), viz:
Number of these Births which on 31st January. 1903. remained unentered in the • Vaccination Register" on account (as shown by Report Book; of:—
Number of these Births remaining on 3lst January, 1903. neither duly entered in the"Vaccination Register" (columns 3, 4, 6, and 7 of this Return.) nor temporarily accounted for in the •' Report Book" (columns 8, y. and 10 of this Return;
Number of Certificates of Conscientious, Objection actuallyreceived by the Vaccination Officer, irrespective of the dates of birth of the Children to which they relate, during the year 1902.
Col I
Col 11
Col IVNumber in respect of whom Certificates of Conscientious Objection have been received
Col V
Postponement by Medical Certificate
Removal to Districts, the Vaccination Officer of which has been duly apprised
Removal tc 1'laces unknown, or which cannotbe reached ; and Cases not having been lound