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Bethnal Green 1913

Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1913 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector

Published
1914
Author
Bate, George Paddock.
Pages
210
Tables
99

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    LONDON and the METROPOLITAN BOROUGHS.—Births and Deaths of Persons belonging to London and the Metropolitan Boroughs during the 53 Weeks ended 3rd January, 1914.
    Boroughs.Population estimated to the middle of 1913.*Births.Deaths fromDeaths under 1 year of Age.
    All Causes.Enteric Fever.Small-pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Whooping cough..Diphtheria.Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years)PulmonaryTuberculosis.
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    LONDON and the METROPOLITAN BOROUGHS—Birth-rates and Death-rates of Persons belonging to London and the Metropolitan Boroughs daring the 53 Weeks ended 3rd January, 1914.
    Boroughs.Per 1000 Persons Living.Rate per 1000 Births.
    Births.Deaths from
    All Causes.Enteric Fever.Small-pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Whooping cough.Diphtheria.PulmonaryTuberculosis.Diarrhœa and Enteritis (under 2 years).Total deaths under 1 year.
    Crude.Standardized.
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    SUMMARY.
    1912.1913.
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    TABLE A.
    1912.1913.
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    CENSUS RETURNS—1911. Nationality of Population.—Aliens.
    Area.Population. (Census, 1911.)Born British Subjects.Naturalised British Subjects.Foreigners. (Aliens.)Percentage of Naturalised British Subjects.Percentage of Foreigners. (Aliens.)
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    PRIVATE FAMILIES AND DOMESTIC SERVANTS EMPLOYED IN BETHNAL GREEN AND ADJOINING BOROUGHS.
    Borough,Number of private families.Number of Domestic Servants employed.Percentages on total population (Males and Females)Percentages on number of private families (Males and Females)
    Males.Females.
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    Area, Families or Separate Occupiers, 1901 and 1911; Population 1901 and 1911; and Increase or Decrease per cent. in Population 1901-1911.
    Metropolitan BoroughsArea in Statute AcresFamilies or Separate OccupiersPopulation.Increase (+) or Decrease ( —) per cent. in Population 1901 to 1911
    19011911
    19011911PersonsMalesFemalesPersonsMalesFemales
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    Aggregate Numbers of Marriages, Births and Deaths Registered in each Registration District during the Interoensal Period, 1901-11.
    Registration Counties and Districts.Population.Registered from 1st April, 1901, to 31st March, 1911.Increase ( +) or Decrease(-) of Population.Excess of Births over Deaths (+) or of Deathsover Births (—)Gain ( + ) or Loss (—) by Migration.
    1901.1911.Marriages.Births.Deaths.
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    Families on Separate Occupiers, and Population, 1901 and 1911; and Population enumerated in Institutions, Large Establishments, and on Vessels, Etc., 1911 (Sub-Districts).
    Metropolitan Borough.Registration Districts and Sub-Districts.Area in Statute Acres.Families or Separate Occupiers.Population.Institutions, LargeEstablishments,
    1901.1911.&c.
    1901.1911.Persons.Persons.Males.Females.No.Population.
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    CLASSIFICATION OF BUILDINGS, BETHNAL GREEN.
    Total.Total (cols. 4-11).Ordinary Dwelling Houses.Blocksof Plats.Shops.Hotels, Inns, and Public Houses.Offices. Warehouses, Workshops, Factories.Institutions.Others.Vessels, Sheds,Vagrants, etc.Separate Flats (included in col. 5).Buildings not used as Dwellings,
    Kind of Building.No.
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    Families or Separate Occupiers, and Population, 1901 and 1911; and Population enumerated in institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, etc., 1911. (Wards.)
    Area in Statute Acres.Families orSeparate Occupiers.Population.Institutions, Large Establishments, Etc.
    1901.1911.
    1901.1911.Persons.Persons.Males.Females.No.Population.
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    Tenements of Five Rooms and upwards with more than Two Persons per Room.
    No of Rooms per Tenement.No. of Persons per Tenement.Nunaber of Children under 10 years of age in Private Families (or Tenements).Total Number ofPrivate Families (or Tenements)Population.
    012345678910
    All ages .Under 10.
    Number of Private Families (or Tenements).
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    TENEMENTS IN THE OCCUPATION OF PRIVATE FAMILIES.
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    Continued from previous page...
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    CENSUS RETURN, 1911. Population in Single Room Tenements in London and in certain Eastern Districts.
    Area.Population (1911).Occupants of single room tenements.Percentage on total population.
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    Bethnal Green forms a portion of the Petty Sessional Division of the Tower, which contains
    Area in Statute Acres.Families or Separate Occupiers.Population.
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    INSTITUTIONS. Persons Enumerated in Workhouse Establishments, in Hospitals and in Lunatic Asylums.
    Registration District and Sub-District.Civil Parish.Institution.Special Inmates (Patients, Paupers, Lunatics, Ac.).Officials and their Families.
    Persons.Males.Females.PersonsMales.Females.
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    The details of these trans ferable births are as follows :—
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    TABLE B. Public institutions, situated outside the Borough, into which Bethnal Green residents have been received, and where they have subsequently died:—
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    TABLE C. Public Institutions in Betiinal Green.
    Institution.Beds Available.In-patients Treated.Deaths— Bethnal Green Residents.Deaths— Bethnal Green Non-Residents.Out-patients Treated.
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    SUMMARY.
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    TABLE D.
    District.Deaths.Population.
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    TABLE E.
    Month.London Death Rate.Bethnal Green Death Rate.Mean Temperature (Degrees.)Rainfall (Inches).
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    Table F compares the death rates for London and for Bethnal Green by quarters:— TABLE F.
    Quarter Ending.London.Bethnal Green.
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    TABLE G. Marriages, 1914.
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    TABLE H.
    Special Causes of Infantile Deaths.Totals.Rate per thousand births.
    1913191219131912
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    TABLE I. Quarterly Mortality for the Borough of Bethnal Green.
    1913.Estimated Population in the middle of 1913.Births.All Causes.Enteric Fever.Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Whooping Cough.Diphtheria.Diarrhcea and Enteritis (under 2 years).Pulmonary Tuberculosis.Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age.All Causes.Enteric Fever.Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Whooping Cough.Diphtheria.Pulmonary Tuberoulosis.Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years) to 1000 Births registeredTotal deaths under 1 1 year to 1000 Births registered.
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    TABLE J. Quarterly Mortality tor the County of London.
    1913.Estimated Population in the middle of 1913.Births.All Causes.Enteric Fever.Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Whooping Cough.Diphtheria.Diarrhœa and Enteritis under 2 years).Pulmonary Tuberculosis.Deaths of Infants under 1 year of age.All Causes.Enteric Fever.Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Whooping Cough.Diphtheria.Pulmonary Tuberculosis.Diarrhœa and Enteritis (under 2 years) per 1000 Births registeredDeaths under 1 year to 1000 Births registered/
    County of Loudon12343678910111213141516171819202122
    March 29th4,519,19128,94519,69529—845523001132981747335317.50.03-0.750.050.270.101.5510.30116
    June 28th4,518,19128,34214,90020—549412641072731428228513.30.02-0.490.040.230.091.279.6381
    September 27th4,518,19127,76913,30128—1244612073150C1204291c11.80.02—0.110.040.110.061.0754.02105
    January 3rd, 19144,518,19128,70617,07037-624911613810271600331514.10.03—0.040.040.100111.3235.70115
    4,518,191113,82265,026114-1570188800431309859791186914.20.02—0.350.040.180.091.3027.41104
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    TABLE K.
    Disease.Deaths at Home.Deaths in Hospitals.Total.
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    TABLE L.
    Disease.1913.1912./
    Small Pox--
    Measles--
    Small Pox5990
    Scarlet Fever32
    Diphtheria1115
    Whooping Cough3028
    Enteric Fever43
    Diarrhoea14548
    Totals252186
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    TABLE M.
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    TABLE N.
    Nature of DiseaseNo. of Certificates ReceivedDuplicate Certificates ReceivedActual Number ofCases ReportedTreatedat HomeRemoved to M.A.B. HospitalsTreated at other Hospitals and InfirmaryDiagnosis Incorrect
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    TABLE O. Condition of Premises where Cases of Infectious Disease have occurred during 1913.
    Scarlet FeverDiphtheria.Enteric Fever.
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    Occupations of Persons Notified during 1913.
    Occupation.Males.Females.Total.
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    Public Health (Tuberculosis)—continued.
    Occupation.Males.Females.Total.
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    ANNUAL EXPENDITURE.
    £
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    The total number of births notified was 3,662; the notifications being received from:
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    TABLE I. Vital Statistics of Whole District during 1913 and Previous Years.
    Year.Population estimated to Middle of each year.Births.Total deaths Registered inthe district.Transferable Deaths.Nett Deaths belonging to the District
    Under 1 Year of Age.At all Ages.
    Uncorrected Number.Nett.Number.Rate.of Nonresidentsregistered inthe District.Of Residents not registered in the District.Number.Rate per 1,000 Nett Births.Number.Rate.
    Number.Rate.
    12345678910111213
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    TABLE II. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1913.
    Notifiable Disease.Number of cases Notified.Total Cases Notified in each Locality.(e.g., parish or Ward) of the District.Total Cases removed to hospital.
    At all Ages.At Ages—Years.
    Under 1.1 and under 5 years.5 and under 15 years.15 and under 25 years.25 and under 45years.45 and under 65 years.65 and upwards.
    1Northeast.2Southwest.Northeast.Southwest.
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    TABLE 11A. Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912. Summary of Notifications during the Period from 1st February, 1913, to the end of the week ending on the 3rd January, 1914.
    Age Periods.Number of Notifications on Form A.Number of Notifications on Form B.Number of Notications on Form C
    Primary Notifications.Total Notifications (i.e., including cases previouisly notified by other doctors).Primary Notifications.Total Notifications (i.e. including notifications by other doctors).Poor Law Institutions.Sanatoria.
    0 t011to 55 to 1010to1515 to 2020to 2525 to 3535 to 4545 to5555 to 6565andupwardsTotalUnder55t0 1010 to15Total
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    TABLE III. Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1913.
    Causes of Death.Nett Deaths at the subjoined ages of "Residents" whether occurring within or without the district.Total Deaths whether of Re-side its or Non-residents n Infetitutions in the District
    All Ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 2.2 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 45.45 and under 65.65 and upwards.
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    TABLE IIIa. Deaths in Sub-Districts.
    Causes of Death.North-East.South west.No Home.Totals.
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    TABLE IV. (a) Whole District. Infantile Mortality during the Year 1913. Nett Deaths from stated Causes at various Ages under One Year of Age.
    Cause of Death.Under 1 week.1-2 weeks.2-3 weeks.3-4 weeks.Total under 4 weeks.4 weeks & under 3 months.3 months & under 6 months.6 months & under 9 months.9 months & under 12 months.Total Deaths under 1 year.
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    TABLE IV. (b). North-East Bethnal Green. Infantile Mortality during the Year 1913. Nett Deaths from stated Causes at various Ages under One Year of Age.
    Causes of Death.Under 1 week1-2 weeks.2-3 weeks.3-4 weeks.Total under 4 weeks.4 weeks and under 3 months.3 months and under 6 months.6 months and under 9 months.9 months and under 12 months.Total Deaths under 1 year.
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    TABLE IV. South-West Bethnal Green. Infantile Mortality during the Year 1913. Nett Deaths from stated Causes at various Ages under One Year of Age.
    Causes of Death.Under 1 week.1-2 weeks.2-3 weeks.3-4 weeks.Total under 4 weeks.4 weeks & under 3 months.3 months & under 6 months.6 months & under 9 months.9 months & under 12 months.Total Deaths under 1 year.
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    TABLE V. Showing the number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases, inclusive of Hospital Deaths in the 10 years 1903 to 1912 and in the year 1913.
    Disease.1903.1904.1905.1906.1907.1908.1909.1910.1911.1912.Annual Average of 10 yrs. 1903-1912.1913.
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    1—inspection of Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
    Premises.Number of
    Inspections.Written Notices.Prosecutions.
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    2. Defects found in Factories, Workshops and Workplaces.
    Particulars.Number of Defects.Number of Prosecutions.
    Found.Remedied.Referred toH.M. Inspctor.
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    3.—HOME WORK
    NATURE OF WORK.Outworkers' Lists, Section 107,Outwork in un-wholesome premises, section 108.Outwork in infected premises, sections 109, 110.
    Lists received from Employers.Prosecutions.Instances.Notices served.Prosecutions.Instances.Orders made (Section 110).Prosecutions (Sections 109, 110).
    Twice in the year.Once in the year.Failing to keep or permit inspection of lists.Failing to send lists.
    Lists.Out-work-ers.Lists.Out-Work-ers.
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    4. - Registered Workshops.
    Workshops on the Register (s. 131) at the end of the year.Number.
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    5.—Other Matters.
    Class.Number.
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    A.—Pathological Work apart from such work at Isolation Hospitals.
    Arrangements made for examination ofYes or No.At what Institution or Laboratory.Charge per examination.Number of specimens examined during 1913.
    (a)to the Council if the exami-nation is made in a Laboratory not staffed by the Co???s own officers.(b) to the Practitioner if any charge is made.
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    Continued from previous page...
    Arrangements made for examination ofYes or No.At what Institution or Laboratory.Charge per examination.N umber of specimens examined during 1913.
    (a)to the Council if the exam-nation is made in a Laboratory not staffed by the Co???s own officers.(b) to the Practitioner if any charge is made.
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    METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF BETHNAL GREEN. STREET LIST.
    Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.TubercularDiseasesRespiratory Diseases.General Diseases.Total.Name of Street.Zymotic DiseasesTubeicular Disesses.Respiratory Diseases.General Diseases.Total.
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    STREET LIST—continued.
    Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.TubercularDiseases.Respiratory Diseases.General Diseases.Total.Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.Tubercular Diseases.Respiratory DiseasesGeneral Diseases.Total.
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    STRE ET LIST—continued.
    Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.TubercularDiseases.Respiratory DiseasesGeneral DiseasesTotal.Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.Tubercular Diseases.Respiratory DiseasesGeneral Diseases.Total.
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    street list—continued.
    Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases,Tubercular Diseases.Respiratory Diseases.General Diseases.Total.Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.TubercularDiseases.Respiratory Diseases.General DiseasesTotal.
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    STREET LIST continued.
    Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.Tubercular Diseases.Respiratory Diseases.GeneralDiseases.Total.Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.Tubercular Diseases.RespiratoryDiseases.General Diseases.Total.
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    STREET LIST - continued.
    Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.Tubercular Diseases.Respiratory Diseases.General Diseases.Total.Name of Street.Zvmotic Diseases.Tubercular Diseases.Respiratory Diseases.General Diseases.Total.
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    street list—continued.
    Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.Tubercular Diseases.Respiratory Diseases.General Diseases.Total.Name of Street.Zymotic Diseases.Tubercular Diseases.Respiratory Diseases.General Diseases.Total.
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    APPENDIX A. Total Number of Inspections and Particulars of Cases in Hand
    District.Infectious Cases.Complaints.House to House Inspections.Trade InspectionsRe-inspections.Milkshop Inspections.Factory and Work-shop InspectionsOutworkers' Homes Inspections.Tenement House Inspections.New Buildings Inspections.Ice Cream Shop Inspections.
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    for the Year ended 31 st December, 1913.
    Combined Drainage Inspections.Smoke Nuisances— Observations made.Other Inspectionsor work of Special Character.Number of Calls.Unsound Food Seizures.Samples of Food and Drugs and Rag Flock taken.Police Court Attendances.Nuisances Abated.Number of Cases in HandTotal Visits for the Year.Inspector.
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    APPENDIX B. Total number of Defects discovered during 1913.
    Month.Dirty Premises.Defective Drains.Defective and Dirty W.C.'s.Defective Water Supply.Smoke Nuisances.Other Matters.Total.
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    APPENDIX D. (1.) Police Court Proceedings, 1913—Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
    Date of hearing.Defendant.Offence.Inspector.Magistrate.Result.
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    Police Court Proceedings, 1913—Public Health (London) Act, 1891—continued.
    Date of hearing.Defendant.Offence.Inspector.Magistrate.Result.
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    Police Court Proceedings, 1913—Public Health (London) Act, 1891—continued.
    Date of hearing.Defendant.Offence.Inspector.Magistrate.Result.
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    Police Court Proceedings, 1913—Public Health (London) Act, 1891—continued.
    Date of hearing.DefendantOffence.Inspector.Magistrate.Result.
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    APPENDIX D (2). Police Court Proceedings, 1913. Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops Orders, 1885 and 1886.
    Date of hearing.Defendant.Offence.Inspector.Magistrate.Result
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    APPENDIX D (3). Police Court Proceedings, 1913. London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908.
    Date of hearing.Defendant.OffenceInspector.Magistrate.Result.
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    APPENDIX D (4). Police Court Proceedings, 1913. Factory and Workshop Act, 1901,
    Date of hearing.Defendant.Offence.Inspector.Magistrate.Result
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    APPENDIX D (5) Police Court Proceedings, 1913. Rag Flock Act, 1911.
    Date of hearing.Defendant.Offence.Inspector.Magistrate.Result.
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    APPENDIX E (1). Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875-1907. Samples taken officially and submitted for analysis during the year.
    Article.Total Number of Samples taken.GenuineAdulterated or deficient.Offences other than Adulteration.
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    APPENDIX E. (2). Police Court Proceedings—Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875-1907.
    Date of hearing.Defendant.Offence.Inspector.Magistrate.Result.
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    Police Court Proceedings—Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875-1907.
    Date of hearing.Defendant.Offence.Inspector.Magistrate.Result.
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    Police Court Proceedings—Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875-1907.
    Date of hearing.Defendant.Offence.Inspector.Magistrate.Result.
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    Police Court Proceedings—Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875-1907.
    Date of hearing.Defendant.Offence.Inspector.Magistrate.Result.
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    Police Court Proceedings—Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875-1907.
    Date of hearing.Defendant.Offence.Inspector.Magistrate.Result.
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    Police Court Proceedings—Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875- 1907.
    Date of hearing.Defendant.Offence.Inspector.Magistrate.Result.
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    Police Court Proceedings—Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875-1907.
    Date of hearing.Defendant.Offence.Inspector.Magistrate.Result.
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    Police Court Proceedings—Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875-1907.
    Date of hearing.Defendant.Offence.Inspector.Magistrate.Result.
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    Police Court Proceedings—Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875-1907.
    Date of hearing.Defendant.Offence.Inspector.Magistrate.Result.
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    Police Court Proceedings—Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875-1907.
    Date of hearing.Defendant.Offence.Inspector.Magistrate.Result.
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    Police Court Proceedings—Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875-1907.
    Date of hearing.Defendant.Offence.Inspector.Magistrate.Result.
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    Police Court Proceedings—Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875-1907.
    Date of hearing.Defendant.Offence.Inspector.Magistrate.Result.
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    Police Court Proceedings—Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875-1907.
    Date of hearing.Defendant.Offence.Inspector.Magistrate.Result.
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    Police Court Proceedings—Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875-1907.
    Date of hearing.Defendant.Offence.Inspector.Magistrate.Result.
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    The following is a summary of legal proceedings, etc., in connection with samples taken for analysis:
    No. ofAdulterated Samples.Other Offences.No. of SummonsesIssued and Cases Pending at 31st Dec., 1912.No of Convictions Obtained.No. ofCases Dismissed.No. of Summonses Withdrawn.No. of Cases Pending at 31st Dec., 1913.
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    Table showing percentage adulteration for Decennial period 1903-1912, compared with 1913.
    Year.No. of Samples taken.No. of Samples Adulterated.Percentage of Adulterated Samples.
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    Summary of Samples taken informally and submitted to Public Analyst and Clinical Research Association during 1913.
    Article.No. of Samples.Genuine.Adulterated or deficientin vital constituent.Other offences, e.g., margarine in unstamped wrapper.
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    Summary of samples analysed in the Laboratory at the Town Hall, Bethnal Green, during 1913.
    Article.No. of Samples.Genuine.Adulterated or deficient in vital constituent or preservatised.Of low quality.
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    1. Milk, and Cream not sold as preserved cream.
    (a)Number of samples examined for the presence of a preservative.(b)Number in which a preservative was reported to be present.
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    Particulars relating to Unsound Food for 1913. Surrendered.
    Cwts.Qrs.St.Lb.
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    Seized.
    Cwts.Qrs.St.Lb.
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    Also 114 tins of Condensed Milk, 1 quart of Liquid Eggs.
    Cwts.Qrs.St.Lb.
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    APPENDIX J. (1). Outworkers.
    Year.No. of Lists received from Employers.No. of Outworkers com-prised therein.Reported from other Boroughs.Reported toother Boroughs.
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    Verminous School Children.
    1910.1911.1912.1913.
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    APPENDIX N (1).Particulars respecting Work of Disinfectors.
    Month.NUMBER OF ROOMS DISINFECTED.Schools Disinfected.No. of Articles destroyed at StationNo. of Articles Disinfected at Station.
    Notifiable Infectious Diseases (Public Health Act.)Pulmonary Tuberculosis.Verminous Premises.Cancer.Scabies.Measles.Chicken Pox.By Request.Total Number of Rooms.
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    APPENDIX Q. Inspection of certain places subject to Special Bye-laws and Regulations.
    PREMISES.No. of Premises.No. of Inspections.No. of Notices.No. of Prosecutions.
    On Register at end of 1912.Addedin 1913.Removed in 1913.On Register at end of 1913.