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St Giles (Camden) 1898

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

Published
1899
Pages
156
Tables
79

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  • Page 4
    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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    COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF INCOME AND EXPENDITURE For the years ending 25th March, 1898, and 25th March, 1899.
    INCOME.Year ending 25th MarchYear ending 25th March, 1899.
    £s.d.£s.d.
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    Comparative Statement of Income and Expenditure—continued.
    EXPENDITURE.Year ending 25th March, 1898.Year ending 25th March, 1899,
    Expenditure of this Board:£s.d.£s.d.
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    Abstract of Receipts and Payments of the Board for General
    RECEIPTS.Ledger folio.£s.d.£s.d.
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    Purposes from 25th March, 1898, to 25th March, 1899.
    PAYMENTS.Ledger folio.£s.d.£a.d.
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    Abstract of Receipts and Payments
    ledger folio.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page -
    for General Purposes—continued.
    Ledger Folio£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 32 33
    Abstract of Receipts and Payments
    Ledger Folio.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page -
    for General Purposes—continued.
    Ledger folio£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 34 35
    Abstract of Receipts and Payments
    Ledger folio.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page -
    for General Purposes—continued.
    Ledger Folio.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 36 37
    Foundling Estate
    RECEIPTS.Ledger Folio.£s.d.£s.d.
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    Brunswick Square Garden
    RECEIPTS.Ledger Folio.£s.d.£s.d.
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    Rate Account.
    PAYMENTS.Ledger Folio.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page -
    Rate Account.
    PAYMENTS.Ledger Folio.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 38 39
    Sewer
    RECEIPTS.Ledger Folio.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 40 41
    Sewer Rate Account—continued.
    Ledger folio.£s.d.£s.d.Ledger folio.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 42 43
    Sewer Rate Account—continued.
    Ledger folio.£s.d.£s.d.Ledger Folio.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 44 45
    Summary showing the Total Receipts and Payments of the Board for the year ending 25th March, 1899.
    RECEIPTS.£s.d.£s.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, 1899—continued.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 48 49
    Statement of the Assets and Moneys owing to the Board and the Debts and Liabilities of the Board on the 25th March, 1899.
    DEBTS AND LIABILITIES.Ledger Folio.£s.d.£s.d.ASSETS AND MONEYS OWING TO THE BOARD.
    General Purposes Rate Account:Ledger folio.£s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 50
    Statement of Loans Outstanding.
    Purpose of Loan.Date of Original Borrowing.Period of Repayment.Original Amount Borrowed.Balance Outstanding.Mode of Repayment.
  • Page 52
    Pavings. Carriage-ways.
    Situation.Description of Paving.Net cost.
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    Footways.
    Situation.Description of Paving.Net cost.
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    During the year, contracts were entered into between your Board and the several Contractors who laid the pavements, for a further maintenance of the following streets for the periods and at the prices named:—
    Period.Per yard superficial perannum.
    s.d.
  • Page 56
    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 Yard450gallons.Automatic self-acting syphon.
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    Continued from previous page...
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    Table shewing the number of persons using the underground lavatories in the District from observations taken from the 11th to 17th July, 1898.
    Men's Lavatories.Total number using convenience in one week.Number using water closets.Number using urinals.Average per day of total.
  • Page 62
    In the women's conveniences, payment is required from all persons using them whether the w.c.'s or the lavatory basins, and the number of people is ascertained from the actual money receipts.
    Women's Lavatories.Total number using convenience in one week.Number using water closets.Number using lavatory-basins.Average per day of Total.
  • Page 67
    The Board, after giving full consideration to the matter, resolved to permit these cul-de-sac to be stopped, and accordingly the following mews were closed on the dates named:—
    Owners of surrounding property.Date of closing cul-de-sac.
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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.
  • Page 75
    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.1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.Total.Grand Total.
    Gen.Adult.Gen.Adult.Gen.Adult.Gen.Adult.Gen.Adult.
  • Page 75
    The percentage for the six 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 were as follows:—
    No. of Sample.Nature and Amount of Adulteration.
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    109 samples of butter were examined, seven of which proved to be adulterated (6.86 per cent.), the amount of foreign fat (fat other than the fat of butter) varying from 65 to 80 per cent.
    No. of Samples.Nature and Amount of Adulteration.
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    Four of the 27 samples of coffee (14.8 per cent.) were found to contain chicory, the quantity of the latter varying from 40 to 60 per cent.
    No. of Sample.Nature and Amount of Adulteration.
  • Page 83
    Marriages and Marriage-rate.
    1898.Population (Census 1896).Number of Marriages.Marriage- rate per 1,000.
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    Continued from previous page...
    Name of Building.Denomination.Number of Marriages.
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    Births and Birth-rates.
    Registration Sub-Districts.Population (Census 1896).Number of Births.Ratio of Births to PopulationBirth - rate per 1,000.
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    The different corrections will be found in the following table.
    Registration Sub-Districts.Population (Census 1896).Registered Deaths.Deaths (corrected).Ratio of Deaths to PopulationDeath-rate per 1,000.
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    The deaths occurred in the following hospitals, &c.:—
    Institution.N umber of Deaths.Institution.Number of Deaths.
  • Page 92
    The vital statistics are shown in the following table.
    Great Wild Street Block.1898.Decennial average 1888-97.Above Decennial Average.Below Decennial Average.
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    The vital Statistics are shown in the following table:—
    Little Coram Street Block.1898.Decennial Average 1888-97.Above Decennial Average.Below Decennial Average.
  • Page 94
    The birth, death, and zymotic death-rates for 1898, and the decennial average for 1888-97, are shown in the following table:—
    Model Buildings, Streatham Street.1898.Average for 10 years, 1888-97.Above Decennial Average.Below Decennial Average.
  • Page 95
    and the decennial average for 1888-97 are shown in the following table:—
    Thurstan and Holland Buildings.1898.Average for 10 years 1888-97.Above Decennial Average.Below Decennial Average.
  • Page 95
    The birth, death, and zymotic death-rates for the years 1897 and 1898 are shown in the following table:—
    Shelton and Macklin Streets Buildings.1897.1898.
  • Page 97
    MIASMATIC ORDER. 1.—Small-Pox (decennial average, 0.6).
    Year.No. of Notifications Received.Removals to Hospitals.No. of Deaths in Hospitals.No. of Deaths at Home.Total No. of Deaths.
  • Page 99
    3.—Scarlet Fever (decennial average 5.2)
    Year.No. of Notifications received.Removals to Hospitals.No. of Deaths in Hospitals.No. of Deaths at Home.Total No. of Deaths.
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    6. —D iphtheria (decennial average 12.4).
    Year.No. of Notifications received.Removals to Hospitals.No. of Deaths in Hospitals.No. of Deaths at Home.Total No. of Deaths.
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    (Annual report of the Statistical Committee of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.)
    189218931894189518961897
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    7.—Continued Fevers (decennial average 7.4).
    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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    They are duly scheduled under their several diseases in the following tables.
    Small-pox.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Enteric Fever.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.Total.
  • Page 105
    The number of patients suffering from infectious diseases removed from this District to the several institutions of the Asylums Board and the general public hospitals is shown in the following table:—
    Diseases.Asylums Board Hospitals.General Hospitals.Total.
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    IV.—Sudden and Violent Deaths. Inquests. Coroner : Dr. T. G. Danford Thomas. Office : 87, Euston Road, N.W. Inquiry Officer : Mr. John Beyant, 7, Cobden Buildings, King's Cross Road, N.W.
    Causes of Death.St. George, Blooms-bury.St. Giles-in-the-Fields.Total.
  • Page 112
    In this district the following 618 houses are registered under the Regulations made by your Board and confirmed by the Local Government Board in 1897.
    Locality.No. of Houses.Locality.No. of Houses.
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    The following is a return of the Registered Common Lodging-Houses in this District.
    Locality.Name of Keeper.Residence of Keeper.Authorised Number of Lodgers.
  • Page 126
    At the same meeting the Committee of the London County Council, the license was renewed for the undermentioned Cow-shed:—
    Locality.Licensee.Dimensions of Shed.No. of Cows Allowed.No. of Cows now in Shed.
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    The following articles were brought to the Stone Yard and disinfected in the Washington Lyon's Steam apparatus:
    Articles.NumberArticles.N umberArticles.Number
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    TABLE I. Showing the Population, Inhabited Houses, Marriages, Births and Deaths for the Year 1898, and Ten Tears Preceding. GROSS NUMBERS.
    The Year.Census 1896.Mar riages.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.
  • Page 133
    Showing the Annual Birth-rate, Death-rate, Death-rates of Children, and Proportion of Deaths in Public Institutions in a Thousand Deaths for the Year 1898 and Ten Years Preceding.
    In Year.Birth-rate per 1,000 of the Population.Death-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.
  • Page 134
    TABLE III.—Deaths Registered from all Causes in the Year 1898 (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 5.6 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 65.65 and upwards.St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles, South.St. Giles, North.
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    Continued from previous page...
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    TABLE III.— continued.
    CAUSES OF DEATH.AGES.Total under Five Years of Age.Grand Total all Ages.SUB-DISTRICTS.
    0 to 1.1 to 6.6 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 65.65 and upwards.St. George, BloomsburySt. Giles, North.St. Giles, North.
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    SUMMARY OF TABLE III.
    I.— Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases—Number of Deaths.
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    TABLE IV. Showing the number of Deaths at all ages in 1898 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 V. Showing the Number of Deaths in the Ten Years, 1888 to 1897, from the Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases, and the Number in 1898, etc.
    Disease.1888188918901891189218931894189518961897Annual average of ten years 1888 to 1897.Propor- tion of deaths to 1,000 deaths 1888 to 1897.1898Proportion of deaths to 1,000 deaths in 1898.
  • Page 140
    TABLE VI. Report of Sanitary Works, &c., in 1898, carried out under the: Superintendence of Sanitary Inspectors Bond and Robinson.
    Nature of Works.Sub-Districts.Total.
    St. George, Bloomsbury.St. Giles, SouthSt. Giles, North
  • Page 141
    TABLE VII. (A.)—Table of Deaths during the Year 1898, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of St. Giles, Classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities.Mortality from all Causes, at subjoined ages.Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of 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)(f)(g)(h)(i)
  • Page 142
    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 1898, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of St. Giles, classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.
    Names of 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, coming to the knowledge of the medical officer of health.Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.
    Last Census.Estimated to middle of 1898.1234567891011121312345678910111213
    Small-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous CroupFevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.--Small-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.--
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
  • Page 143
    TABLE IX. The Marriage-rate per 1,000 in St. Giles District from 1888 to 1897.
    Sub-Districts.1888.1889.1890.1891.1892.1893.1894.1895.1896.1897.Average rate per 1,000 for 10 years, 1888-1897.
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    TABLE X. Registered Births in 52 Weeks of 1898. 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, 1898, 52 weeks.
    M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.Total Children.
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    Registered Deaths in 52 Weeks of 1898. 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, 1898, 52 weeks.
    M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.M.F.Both Sexes.
  • Page 145
    TABLE XI. Showing the localities in which fatal cases of the principal Zymotic Diseases occurred in 1898:—
    Locality.Smallpox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Whooping Cough.DiphtheriaFever.Diarrhœa.Total.
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    TABLE XI.— Continued.
    Locality.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Whooping Cough.Diphtheria.Fever.Diarrhœa.Total.
  • Page 147
    TABLE XII. Comparative Analysis of the Vital Statistics in Registration London and in St. Giles District, for 1898.
    Population, 1898.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 1,000 Births.
    Births. _Deaths.Principal Zymotic Diseases.Small-Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Fever.Diarrhoea.
  • Page 148
    TABLE XIII. Return Respecting the Vaccination of Children whose Births were Registered in 1897.
    Date.Registration Sub-Districts, comprised in Vaccination Officer's District.Number of Births returned 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 Unvac-cinated.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 Vaccination.Had Smallpox.
  • Page 149
    Based on observations at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and at various other stations, by Mr. James Glaisher, F.R.S., the Astronomer Royal.
    1st Quarter.2nd Quarter.3rd Quarter.4th Quarter.