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Plumstead 1893

Annual report 1893-94

Published
1894
Author
Burton, Herbert Campbell., Davies, Sidney., Moore, Thomas., Bernays, Herbert Leopold.
Pages
166
Tables
57

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  • Page 5
    LIST OF MEMBERS. Note.—The Names of Members printed in italics have retired or resigned.
    CHARLTON.
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    LIST OF MEMBERS—(continued).
    Kidbook
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    LIST OF MEMBERS—Continued.
    PLUMSTEAD.
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    LIST OF MEMBERS—Contiuued. GENERAL PURPOSES COMMITTEE.
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    THE BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE PLUMSTEAD DISTRICT. Return, shewing the number of Attendances of Members at the Board and Committee Meetings for the year ended 25th March, 1894.
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    \ LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL. ELECTION—MARCH, 1892.
    The Boroughs, including Parishes Comprised in the Plumstead District.Candidates. Those elected are marked*Votes.
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    Continued from previous page...
    Pakish.Population.Rateable Value.Inhabited Houses.Area Acres.No. of Members of District Board.
    1881.1891.1893.1894.1881.1891.
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    Further particulars were in each case duly reported to the Board when the cases were respectively heard by the Police Magistrates.
    Summonses.Convictions or Orders.Paid before Hearing.Withdrawn, Dismissed, Not Served, or otherwise disposed of.Work done before Hearing.Hearing Adjourned.
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    TABLE I. Articles submitted with General Results of Analysis.
    No. of SamplesArticles submitted for Analysis.Result of Analysis.
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    TABLE T.—Continued.
    No. of SamplesArticles submitted for Analysis.Result of Analysis.
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    TABLE II. Shewing the Samples Adulterated or of Inferior Quality.
    No.Substance.Result.
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    TABLE II.—Continued.
    No.Substance.Result.
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    TABLE II.—Continued.
    No.Substance.Result.
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    8. The Table of Deaths now in use does not show all the causes of Death so I give the numbers of some of the more important ones as follows:-
  • Page 39
    (A.) Table of DEATHS during the Year 1893, in the Charlton Sanitary District of Phunstead, classified according to D iseases , A ges , and L ocalities.
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities. (Columns for Population and Births are in Table B.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 55 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 65.65 and upwards(i)12345678910111213141516171819202122
    Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fivers.Cholera.ErysipelasMeasles.Whooping Cough.Diarrhoea and Dysentery.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.PhthisisBronchitis, Pneumonia and PleurisyHeart Disease.Injuries.All Other Diseases.Total.
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.ContinuedRelapsingPuerperal
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)(g)(h)
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    The subjoined numbers have also to be taken into account in judging of the above records of mortality.
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    K 2 11. Table of POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of (B.) the Medical Officer of Health, during the Year 1893, in the Charlton Sanitary District of Plumstead District, classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.
    Population at all Ages.New Cases of 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.
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities.Census 1891.Estimated to middle of 1893.Registered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.12345678910111234567891011
    Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.ErysipelasSmallpox.Scarlatina.DiphtheriaMembranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.ContinuedRelapsingPuerperalTyphus.Enteric or TyphoidContinuedRelapsingPuerperal
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
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    BAKE-HOUSES.
    Name.Address.
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    COW-HOUSES.
    Name.Address.
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    PURVEYORS OF MILK.
    Name.Address.
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    BIRTHS, 1893.
    Male.Female.Total.
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    DEATHS, 1893.
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    DEATHS from Zymotic disease during 1893. First Three Quarters.
    No.Date.Residence.Age.Sex.Disease.
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    Fourth Quarter.
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    "DEATHS occurring outside the district among persons belonging thereto," (in "Outlying Institutions.") First Three Quarters.
    No.Date,Place.Age.Sex.Disease.
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    Fourth Quarter.
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    B ake-houses. 30. In October I inspected the following bake-houses, and found them in a fairly satisfactory condition:—
    Name.Address.
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    K 2 3. Table of DEATHS dining the last Quarter of the Year 18U-3, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Eltham, classified according to D iseases , A ges, (A.) and L ocalities.
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities. (Columns for Population and Births are in Table B.Mortality from all causes, at subjoined ages.Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age.
    12345 078910111213141516171819202122
    At all ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 55 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 05.05 and upwardsSmallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Fevers.Whooping Cough.Diarrhœa and Dysentery.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.PhthisisBronchitis, Pneumonia and PleurisyHeart Disease.Injuries.All Other Diseases.Total.
    ContinuedRelapsingPuerperalCholera.ErysipelasMeasles.
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)(g)(h)(1)
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    K 2 11. Table of POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of (B.) the Medical Officer of Health, during the last quarter of the Year 1893, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Eltham, classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities.
    Population at all Ages.New Cases of 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.
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities.Census 1891.Estimated to middle of 1893Registered Births.Aged uuder 5 or over 5.1234561 78910111234567891011
    Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.FeversFevers.
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.ContinuedRelapsingPuerperalCholera.ErysipelasSmallpox.Scarlatina.DiphtheriaMembranous Croup.Typhus.Enteric or TyphoidContinuedRelapsingPuerperalCholera.Erysipelas.
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
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    Gentlemen, 1. I beg to report upon the following matters for the year ending 25th March. 1894:—
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    4. The following is a list of the same, also of Cow and Slaughter-houses:—
    BAKEHOUSES.
    Situation.Occupier.
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    Continued from previous page...
    COW-HOUSES.
    Situation.Occupier.
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    K 2 3. Table Of DEATHS during the Year 1893, in the Lee and Kidbrook Sanitary District of Plumstead Board of Works, classified according to Diseases, (A.) Ages, and Localities.
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities. (Columns for Population and Births are in Table B.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 55 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 65.65 and upwards12 1345678910111213141516, 171819202122
    Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.ErysipelasMeasles.Whooping Cough.Diarrhœa and Dysentery.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.PhthisisBronchitis,Pneumonia and PleurisyHeart Disease.Injuries.All Other Diseases.Total.
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.ContinuedRelapsingPuerperal
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)(g)(h)(i)
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    K2 11. Table of POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of (B.) the Medical Officer of Health, during the Year 1893, in the Lee and Kidbrook Sanitary District of Plumstead Board of Works, 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 of 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.
    Census 1891.Estimated to middle of 1893.12345678910111234567891011
    Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.ErysipelasSmallpox.Scarlatina.DiphtheriaMembranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.ContinuedRelapsingPuerperalTyphusEnteric or TyphoidContinuedRelapsingPuerperal
    (a)(b)(c)(d)(e)
  • Page 82
    5. New pipe sewers have been laid down in the following new streets, upon the Firs Estate, together with a proper system of manhole ventilators and surface water gullies, to the satisfaction and under the supervision of the Board's officials: —
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    Continued from previous page...
    Names.Total length.Size.Material.
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    9. About 18500 square yards of asphalte paving have been reinstated by the Brunwick Rock Asphalte Paving Co. in various parts of the Parish, in a satisfactory manner, as follows
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    Continued from previous page...
    Serial No.Locality.Yards.
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    LIST OF SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.
    Owner.Occupier.Situation of Premises.
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    COW-HOUSES.
    Owner.Occupier.Situation of Premises.
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    Influenza too was more prevalent than in any year except 1891, as is shewn by the annexed table: —
    Year ending March 1889Year 1890Year 1891Year 1892Year 1893
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    Numbers living at different apes per 1000 of total populations.
    Under 55-1010-1515-2020-2525-3535-4545-5555-6565-75Over 75
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    TABLE I.—Summary of Statistics for 1893, compared, with Registration London.
    Plumstead.London.
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    ??? I. ???s for each Quarter and the whole Year.
    Rheumatic Fever.Ague.Phthisis.Bronchitis Pneumonia Pleurisy.Heart Disease.Injuries.All other Diseases.Total.Influenza.TuberculosisCancer and Neoplasms.Labour and Sequelæ.Prem. Birth and Low VitalityCongenl. Defects.Old Age.Not certified.Inquests.
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    TABLE III. (A.)Table of DEATHS during the Year 1893, in the Plumstead Parish, Sanitary District of London, classified according to D iseases, Agfs , and Localities .
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities. (Columns for Population and Births are in Table B. (a)Mortality from all causes, at subjoined Ages.(i)Mortality from subjoined causes, distinguishing Deaths of Children under Five Years of Age.
    At all ages. (b)Under 1 year. (c)1 and under 5 (d)5 and under 15. (e)15 and under 25. (f)25 and under 60. (g)60 and upwards (h)12345678910111213141516171819202122
    Smallpox.Scarlatina,Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.ErysipelasMeasles.Whooping Cough.Diarrhoea and Dysentry.Rheumatic Fever.Ague.PhthisisBronchitis, Pneumonia and PleurisyHeart Disease.Injuries.All Other Diseases.Total.
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.ContinuedRelapsingPuerperal
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    TABLE IV. Age Distribution of Population. CENSUS 1891.
    Ages.Males.Females.Persons.
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    TABLE V. (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 1893, in the Plumstead Parish Sanitary District of London, classified according to D iseases, A ges , and L ocalities.
    Names of Loc alities 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 of 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.
    Census 1891.12345678910111234567891011Total.
    Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.ErysipelasTotal.Smallpox.Scarlatina.DiphtheriaMembranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.ContinuedRelapsingPuerperalTyphus.Enteric or TyphoidContinuedRelapsingPuerperal
    (a)(b)(c)(d)
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    TABLE VI. SCARLET FEVER AND DIPHTHERIA.
    Total Cases.ages.sex.Houses with 1 CaseHouses with 2 CasesHouses with 3 CasesNo. to HospitalAncona Road.Earl Street.Vicarage Road.Plumstead Road.Pnrrett Road.Bloomfield Road.The Slade.Purrage Grove.Church Terrace.Eglinton Road.Total Cases in Schools
    Under 11 to 55 to 1010 to 20Over 20MalesFemales
    On RollOn RollOn RollOn RollOn RoilOn RollOn RollOn RollOn RollOn Roll
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    TABLE VII. Summary of the Vital Statistics of the Parish of Plumstead, 1885-1893.
    Year.Estimated Population middle of year.Births.Deaths.Annual Rate per 1000 living.Deaths from Principal Zymotic DiseasesSmall Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Typhus.Enteric Fever.Simple and Undefined Fever.Diarrhoea.Deaths of Children under 1 year of age to 1000 births.
    Births.Deaths.Principal Zymotic Diseases.
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    TABLE VIII.
    SANITARY AREAS.Estimated Population middle of 1893.Births.Deaths.Annual Rate per 1000 living.Deaths from Principal Zymotic DiseasesSmall Pox.Measles.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Whooping Cough.Typhus.Enteric FeverSimple and Undefined Fever.Diarrhoea.0Deaths of Children under 1 year of age to 1000 births.
    Births.Deaths.Principal Zymotic Diseases.
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    TABLE IX.—Abstract from Mortuary Register, for 1893.
    Date.Age.Sex.Inquest or No.Post Mortem or No.Cause of Death.
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    TABLE X. Summary of Nuisances abated, Notices served, and General Work of the Sanitary Department for 12 months, ending 31st December, 1893.
    House to House Inspection.Special in both Districts.Total.
    WestEast
    PREMISES INSPECTED.
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    TABLE X.—Continued.
    House to House Inspection.Special in both Districts.Total
    WestEast
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    TABLE XI. Return of Vaccination for the year 1892, as sent to the Local Government Board, February 7th, 1894.
    DISTRICT.No. of Births from 1st Jan. to 31st Dec. 1892.Successfully Vaccinated.Insusceptible of Vaccination.Had Small Pox.Dead Unvaccinated.Postponed by Medical Certificate.Removed to places unknown.Other causes.
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    TABLE XII. LIST OF COW HOUSES & SLAUGHTER HOUSES.
    No.Name.Address.
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    LIST OF BAKE-HOUSES—(continued).
    No.Name.Address.
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    LIST OF BAKE-HOUSES—(continued).
    No.Name.Address.