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St Giles (Camden) 1897

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]

Published
1898
Pages
148
Tables
78

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    PARISH OF ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS.
    Names.Addresses.Go out of Office in
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    PARISH OF ST. GEORGE, BLOOMSBURY.
    Names.Addresses.Go out of Office in
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    OFFICERS OF THE BOARD,
    Names.Offices.
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    For the years ending 25th March, 1897, and 25th March, 1898.
    INCOME.Year ending 25th March, 1897.Year ending 25th March, 1898.
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    Comparative Statement of Income and Expenditure—continued.
    EXPENDITURE.Year ending 25th March, 1897.Year ending 25fch March, 1898.
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    The following are the particulars:—
    Locality.Present Condition of Premised.
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    Abstract of Receipts and Payments of the Board for General Purposes from 26th March, 1897, to 25th March, 1898.
    RECEIPTS.Ledger folio.£9.d.£s.d.PAYMENTS.Ledger folio.£s.d.£s.d.
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    Abstract of Receipts and Payments for General Purposes—continued.
    Ledger folio.£ s.d.£8.d.Lodger Folio£s.d.£s.d.
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    Abstract of Receipts and Payments for General Purposes—continued.
    Ledger T^nl i n£p.d.£8.d.Ledger folio.£s.d.£s.d.
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    Abstract of Receipts and Payments for General Purposes—continued.
    Ledger folio.£s.d.£8.d.Ledger Folio.£8.d.£8.d.
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    Foundling Estate Rate Account.
    RECEIPTS.Ledger Folio.£S.d.£s.d.PAYMENTS.Ledger Folio.£s.d.£s.d.
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    Brunswick Square Garden Rate Account.
    RECEIPTS.Ledger Folio.£s.d.£s.d.PAYMENTS.Ledger£s.d.£s.d.
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    Sewer Rate Account.
    RECEIPTS.Ledger Folio.£R.d.£s.d.PAYMENTS.Ledger polio.£s.d.£s.d.
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    Sewer Rate Account—continued.
    Ledger folio.£s.d.£s.d.Ledger folio.£s.d.£s.d.
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    Sewer Rate Account—continued.
    Ledger folio.£a.d.£s.d.Ledger Folio.£s.d.£s.d.
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    Summary showing the Total Receipts and Payments of the Board for the year ending 25th March, 1898.
    RECEIPTS.£s.d.£8.d.PAYMENTS.£s.d.£s.d.
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    Summary showing the Total Receipts and Payments of the Board for the year ending 25th March, 1898—continued
    £.s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
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    Statement of the Assets and Moneys owing to the Board and the Debts and Liabilities of the Board on the 25th March, 1898.
    DEBTS AND LIABILITIES.Ledger Folio.£s.d.£s.d.ASSETS AND MONEYS OWING TO THE BOARD.
    General Purposes Rate Account:
    Contractors' and Tradesmen's Accounts dueSch.6,19670Ledger folio.£s.d.£s.d.
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    Statement of Loans Outstanding.
    Purpose of Loan.Date of Original Borrowing.Period of Repayment.Original Amount Borrowed.Balance Outstanding.Mode of Repayment.
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    Pavings. C arriage-ways.
    Situation.Description of Paving.Net cost.
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    Footways.
    Situation.Description of Paving.Net cost.
    £8.d.
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    different pavements, for a further maintenance for 15 years of the following streets, at the prices named:—
    Per yard superficial per annum.
    s.d.
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    Cleansing Sewers. Certain of the sewers in the District which have dead ends, or in which the flow of sewage is not sufficient to enable the sewer to be self-cleansing, are fitted with flushing tanks. They are as follows:—
    Chapel Yard450 gallons.Automatic self-acting syphon.
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    The total cost of street cleansing for the year, including the Sunday work, was as follows:—
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    The amount paid for water, meter hire, repairs
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    As shewing the great use of underground lavatories, it may be interesting to give the result of a census of the persons using those within the St. Giles District, taken in January and February, 1898.
    Men's Lavatories.Total number using convenience in one week.Number using water closets.Number using uriDals.Average per day of Total.Equals per annum.
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    Contracts. The following Contracts for materials and works have been entered into by the Board, and are now in force:—
    Name and address of the contractor.Nature of contract.Term of contract.
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    Contracts— continued.
    Name and address of the contractor.Nature of contract.Term of Contract.
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    In the following table will be found a summary of the articles analysed during each quarter of the year and their nature and quality.
    ARTICLE.let Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Total.Grand Total.
    Gen.Adult.Gen.Adult.Gen.Adult.Gen.Adult.Gen.Adult.
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    It will be observed that 39 of the samples have been certified to be adulterated—a little more than 10 *6 per cent. The percentage for the five previous years is given below.
    Year.No. of Samples examined.No. Adulterated.Percentage of Adulterated Samples.
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    The nature and amount of the adulteration in each case are as follows:—
    No. of Sample.Nature and Amount of Adulteration.
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    Continued from previous page...
    No. of Sample.Nature and Amount of Adulteration.
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    Butter. 114 samples of butter were examined of which 13 (11.4 per cent.) were found to be adulterated with quantities of foreign fat varying from 40 to 80 per cent.
    No. of Samples.Nature and Amount of Adulteration.
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    Marriages and Marriage-rate.
    1897.Population (Census 1896).Number of Marriages.Marriage- rate per 1,000.
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    The 440 marriages were celebrated in the following Churches, Chapels and Buildings registered for the solemnisation of marriages.
    Nameof Building.Denomination.Number of Marriages.
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    Births and Birth-rates.
    Registration Sub-Distbicts.Population (Census 1896).Number of Births.Ratio of Births to PopulationBirth-rate per 1,000.
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    Deaths and Death-rates.
    Registration Sub-Districts.Population (Census 1896).Registered Deaths.Deaths (corrected).Ratio of Deaths to PopulationDeath-rate per 1,000.
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    Giles-in-the-Fields, and St. George, Bloomsbury, died in the following outlying public Institutions:—
    Institution.Number of Deaths.Institution.Number of Deaths.
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    The vital statistics of this block of buildings in 1897 are shown as follows.
    Great Wild Street Block.1897.Average for 10 years, 1887-96.Above Decennial Average.Below Decennial Average.
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    The vital Statistics for this block are shown as under:—
    Little Coram Street Block.1897.Average for 10 years— 1887-96.Above Decennial Average.Below Decennial Average.
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    The birth, death, and zymotic death-rates for 1897, and the decennial average for 1887-96, are shown in the following table:—
    Model Buildings Streatham Street.1897.Average for 10 years, 1887-96.Above Decennial Average.Below Decennial Average.
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    The birth, death, and zymotic death-rates for 1897 and the decennial average for 1887-96 are shown in the following table:—
    Thurstan and Holland Buildings.1897.Average for 10 years 1887-96.Above Dicennial Average.Below Decennial Average.
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    The birth, death, and zymotic death-rates for the year 1897 are shown in the following table:—
    Shelton and Macklin Street Buildings.1897.
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    MIASMATIC ORDER. 1.—SMALL -Pox (decennial average, 0.7).
    Year.No. of Notifications Received.Removals to Hospital.No. of Deaths.
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    3.—S carlet Fevkr (decennial average 6.5).
    Year.No. of Notifications received.Removals to Hospital.No. of Deaths in Hospital.No of Deaths at Home.Total No. of Deaths.
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    4.—D iphtheria (decennial average 14.2).
    Year.No. of Notifications received.Removals to Hospital.No. of Deaths in Hospital.No. of Deaths at Home.Total No. of Deaths.
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    6.—Continued Feveks (decennial average 7.1).
    Year.No. of Notifications received.Removals to Hospital.No, of Deaths in Hospital.No. of Deaths at Home.Total No. of Deaths.
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    The deaths occurred as follows:—
    Date.Sex and Age.Residence.
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    In St. Giles District daring the past year 433 Certificates, including 41 duplicates, were received from Medical Practitioners under the 55th Section of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
    Small-pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Enteric Fever.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.Total.Average for the 3 yrs., 1894-5.6.
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    Asylums Board Hospitals and the general public hospitals during 1897, from the St. Giles District:—
    Diseases.Asylums Board Hospitals.General Hospitals.Total.
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    Coroner's Officer: Mr. John Bryant, 7, Cobden Buildings, King's Cross Road, N.W.
    Causes of Death.St. George, Blooms-bury.St. Giles-in-the-Fields.Total.
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    In this District the following 575 houses are registered under the regulations made by your Board, and confirmed by the Local Government Board in 1887, and which have been continuously employed with the most satisfactory results.
    Locality.No. of Houses.Locality.No. of Houses.
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    The following is the list of the Common Lodging-Houses in this District.
    Locality.Name of Keeper.Residence of Keeper.Authorised Number of Lodgers.
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    Continued from previous page...
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    During the year 1897, the following 5 properties were dealt with, making a total of 154 houses closed since the passing of the Act:—
    Locality.Condition of Premises.
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    Certificates under Section 26 of the above Acts were asked for and granted to the Owners of the following premises, which, after inspection, were found to be so constructed as to afford suitable accommodation for each of the families inhabiting them, and that due provision was made for their sanitary requirements.
    Owners.Premises.
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    At a special meeting of the Public Health and Housing Committee of the London County Council, held on the 25th October, licenses were renewed for the undermentioned premises used as slaughter-houses:—
    Locality.Licensee.
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    301 rooms were disinfected after the following infectious diseases:—
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    The following articles were brought to the Stone Yard and disinfected in the Washington Lyon's Steam apparatus:
    Articles.NumberArticles.NumberArticles.Number
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    GROSS NUMBERS.
    The Year.Census 1896.Marriages.Registered Births.Corrected Deaths.
    Population.Number of Inhabited Houses.Total all ages.Under one year.Total under five years.In Public Institutions outside the District.In Public Institutions inside the District.
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    TABLE II. S howing the A nnual Birth-rate, Death-rate, Death-rates of Children, and Proportion of Deaths in Public Institutions in a Thousand Deaths for the Year 1897 and Ten Years Preceding.
    In Year.Birth-rate per 1,000 of the PopulationDeath-rate per 1,000 of the Population.Deaths of Children under 1 year per 1,000 of Registered Births.Deaths of Children under 1 year per 1,000 of total Deaths.Deaths of Children under 5 years per 1,000 of total Deaths.Deaths in Public Institutions inside the District per 1,000 of total Deaths.
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    TABLE III.—Dkaths Registered from all Causes in the Year 1897 (inclusive of the Deaths of Parishioners at Hospitals and Public Institutions outside the District).
    CAUSES OF DEATH.AGES.Total under Five Years of Age.Grand Total all Ages.SUB-DISTRICTS.
    0 to 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 65.65 and upwards.St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles, South.St. Giles, North.
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    CAUSES OF DEATH.AGES.Total under Five Years of Age.Grand Total all Ages.SUB-DISTRICTS.
    0 to 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 65.65 and upwards.St. Giles, South.St. Giles, North.St. Giles, North.
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    SUMMARY OF TABLE III.
    I.—Specific Feiirile or Zymotic Diseases—Number of Deaths.
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    TABLE IV. Showing the number of Deaths at all ages in 1897 from certain groups of Diseases, and proportions to 1,000 of Population, and to 1,000 Deaths from all causes; also the number of Deaths of Infants under one year of age from other groups of Diseases, and proportions to 1,000 Births and to 1,000 Deaths from all causes under one year.
    Division I.Total Deaths.Deaths per 1,000 of Population at all Ages.Deaths per 1,000 of Total Deaths at all Ages.
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    TABLE Y. Showing the Number of Deaths in the Ten Years, 1887 to 1896, from the Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases, and the Number in 1897, etc.
    Disease.1887188818891890189118921893189418951896Annual average of ten years 1887 to 1896.Proportion of deaths to 1,000 deaths 1887 to 1896.1897Proportion of deaths to 1,000 deaths in 1897.
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    TABLE Vi. Report of Sanitary Works, &c., in 1897, carried out under the Superintendence of Sanitary Inspectors Bond and Robinson.
    Nature of Works.Scb-Districts.Total.
    St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles, SouthSt. Giles, North
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    TABLE VII. Table op Deaths during the Year 1897, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of St. Giles, Classified according to Diseases. Ages, and Localities.
    Names op Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being- shown as separate localities.Mortality from all Causes, at subjoined Ages.Mortality prom subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths op Children under Five Years op Age.
    At all ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 65.65 and upwards.12345678910111213141516171819202122
    Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Measles.Whooping Cough.Diarrhoea and Dysentery.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Phthisis.Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Pleurisy.Heart Disease.Injuries.All Other Diseases.Total.
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing,Puerperal.
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(/)(g)(h)(i)
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    TABLE VIII. (B.)—Table of Population, Births, and of new Cases of Infectious Sickness, coming to the Knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the Year 1897, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of St. Giles, classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.
    Names op Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all Ages.Registered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.New Cases op Sickness in each Locality, comingtothe knowledge of the medtcal officer op health.Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.
    Census, 1891.Estimated to middle of 1897.1234567891011121312345678910111213
    Small-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous 1 CroupFevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.11Small-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous 1 Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.11
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.TyphusEnteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
    (a).(b)(c)(d)(e)
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    TABLE IX. T he M arriage-rate per 1,000 in S t . G iles D istrict from 1887 to 1896, and the A verage for the T en Y ears 1887-1896.
    Sub-Districts.1887.1888.1889.1890.1891.1892.1893.1894.1895.lfc96.Average rate per 1,000 for 10 years, 1887-1896.
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    TABLE X. Registered Births in 52 Weeks of 1897. Sob-Districts of St. Giles.
    Sub-Districts.First Quarter, 13 weelss.Second Quarter, 13 weeks.Third Quarter, 13 weeks.Fourth Quarter, 13 weeks.Whole Year, 1897, 52 weeks.
    M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.Total Children.
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    Registered Deaths in 52 Weeks of 1897. Sub-Districts of St. Giles.
    Sub-Districts.First Quarter 13 Weeks.Second Quarter 13 Weeks.Third Quarter 13 Weeks.Fourth Quarter, 13 Weeks.Whole Year, 1897 52 Weeks.
    M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.Both Sexes.
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    TABLE XI. Showing the localities in which fatal cases of the principal Zymotic Diseases occurred in 1897:—
    Locality.Smallpox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Whooping Cough.DiphtheriaFever.Diarrhoea.Total.
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    TABLE XI.— Continued.
    Locality.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Whooping Cough.Diphtheria.Fever.Diarrhoea.Total.
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    TABLE XII. Comparative Analysis of the Vital Statistics in Registration London and in St. Giles District, for 1897.
    Population, 1897.Births.Deaths from all Causes.Deaths from Principal Zymotic Diseases.Annual rate per 1,000 living.Deaths.Deaths of Children under 1 year of age to 1000 Births.
    Births.Deaths.Principal Zymotic Diseases.Small Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Whooping Cough.Diphtheria.Fever.Diarrhoea.
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    TABLE XIII.
    Date.Registration SabDistricts, comprised in Vaccination Officer's District.Number of Births retained in Birth List Sheets.Number of these Births duly entered in Columns 10, 11. and 13 of the Vaccination Register (Birth List Sheets) viz.:—Number of these Births which are not entered in the Vaccination Register on account (as shown by Report Book) of—
    Column 10. Successfully Vaccinated.Column 11.Column 13. Dead Unvaccinated.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.Cases still under proceedings by summons or otherwise.
    Insusceptible of Vaccina^ tion.Had Smallpox.
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    Based on observations at the Royal Observatory, Green wich, and at various other stations, by Mr. James Glaisher, F.R.S., the Astronomer Royal.
    1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.