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TABLE OF CONTENTS—continued.
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Offensive Businesses 73
Nuisances 74
Smoke nuisance 74
Nuisance from stable manure 75
Removal of refuse 76
Nuisance from flies 76
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 76
Proceedings under Part III. of the Act 76
Death-rates among persons resident in the County Council's dwellings 77
Proceedings in respect of houses represented under Part II. of the Act as unfit for human habitation 77
Sousing and Town Planning Act, 1909 78
Common Lodging-houses 78
Death-rates of inmates of common lodging-houses 79
Homeless persons 80
Seamen's lodging-houses 80
Houses let in Lodgings 81
Furnished rooms 82
Water supply to tenement houses 83
Storage and cooking of food in tenement houses 84
Houses infested with Vermin 85
Revenue Act, 1903 85
Underground Rooms 86
Overcrowding 87
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 87
Table showing proceedings of sanitary authorities under the Factory and Workshop Act 88
Places where Food is Prepared for Sale 90
Sale of Ice Cream
Inspection of Food 92
Disinfection 93
Shelters 93
Mortuaries 94
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 94
London Equalisation of Rates Act, 1894 95
Water Supply 96
Health Visitors 96
Sanitary Inspectors 96
Midwives Act, 1902 97
Infectious diseases in schools—closure of, and exclusion from school 106
Medical Officers of Health of London Sanitary Areas 108
Appendices—
I.—Report on an outbreak of Scarlet Fever in London and Surrey in June, 1909.
II.—Report on Pulmorary Tuberculosis.
III.—Report on Cerebro-spinal Fever.
IV.—Report on Nuisance from Flies and Vermin.
V.—Report on Homeless Persons in London.
VI.—Report on the Sanitary Staffs of the Metropolitan Sanitary Authorities.
LIST OF DIAGRAMS.
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Diagram I.—Marriages, 1851-1909 7
„ II.—Births, 1851-1909 7
,, III.—Deaths (all causes) 1841-1909 11
„ IV.—Mortality- and Birth-rates in relation to social condition 17
„ V.—Infantile Mortality, 1858-l909 18
VI.—Smallpox (mortality) 1841-1909 29
„ VII.—Measles (mortality) 1841-1909 32
n VIII.—Measles and Whooping-cough (monthly deaths) 1891-1909 33
IX.—Scarlet Fever (mortality) 1859-1909 36
X.—Scarlet Fever (admissions to hospitals of Metropolitan Asylums Board, per cent, of
total notified cases in london) 1890-1909 36
,, XI.—Scarlet Fever (monthly no titled cases and case-mortality) 1891-1909 37
„ XII.—Diphtheria and Croup {mortality) 1859-1909 40
,, XIII.—Diphtheria (admissions to hospitals of Metropolitan Asylums Board, per cent, of total
notified cases in london) 1890-1909 40
,, XIV.—Diphtheria (monthly notified eases and case-mortality) 1891-1909 41
,, XV.—Whooping-cough (mortality) 1841-1909 45
„ XVI.—Typhus (mortality) 1869-1909 48
„ XVII.—Enteric Fever (mortality) 1869-1909 48
„ XVIII.—Enteric Fever (weekly notified casts, 1909, and mean weekly notified cases, 1890-1909) 48
,, XIX.—Enteric Fever (monthly notified cases and case-mortality) 1891-1909 49
„ XX.—DiarrhoBa, Dysentery and Cholera (mortality) 1841-1909 51
XXI.—Phthisis (mortality—males and females) 1851-1909 56
, XXII.—Phthisis (mortality at ages in relation to social condition, 1906-8, and in successive
decemia since 1861) 58