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St. Panonas, London.
THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL. OFFICER OF HEALTH,
Being the Report for the Year 1892.
TO THE YESTRY OF ST. PANCRAS.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you the Thirty-seventh Annual
Report upon the vital and sanitary condition of St. Pancras
I.—Introduction.
Various causes have successively delayed, during 1893, the issue of this
Report. The Enquiry at the beginning of the year into the Insanitary Areas
made large demands upon the time of the Department for statistical and other
information. The changes in the staff of the Department, and especially in
the office of First Assistant Clerk, upon whom the duties of extracting statistical
records, etc. fall, and to which duties the present officer was quite new.
The increase of work thrown upon the Department by the scarlet fever
epidemic, which has prevailed for several months, also prevented progress.
Falling at this period of the year, some consideration must be shown by the
Department to the printers, who from the middle of July to the end of August
have in hand the Borough List, an elaborate and bulky compilation.
A few of the points of interest in the Report to which attention may he
directed, are: —
The successful working of the new system of dust collection from house to
house.
An account of the Disinfecting Station, and especially of the Family
Shelter, accompanied by plans.
The precautions necessary to prevent the advent of Cholera, and the preparations
organised to meet an outbreak should it occur.
Some account of the powers for controlling domestic water supply and for
preventing its pollution.
A brief recapitulation of the condition of the Regent's Canal, and the
remedies recommended.
The order of the Home Secretary under the Factory and Workshops Act,
in reference to outworkers Some notice of the bakehouses in the district, and
the proportions situated above and below ground, and in the Appendix details
as to the distance of the floors of underground bakehouses from the surface.
The following table is a statement of the meteorological conditions in
London during the four quarters, and the year 1892.