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The deaths from the chief zymotic diseases were from
measles, scarlet fever, enteric fever, and diarrhoea, each one.
From diseases of the respiratory organs there were 18
deaths, of which 7 were from bronchitis and 9 from pneumonia.
Diseases of the tubercular order caused 9 deaths,
including 5 from phthisis.
One death was recorded from influenza and bronchitis.
The number of deaths of children under one year of age
was 19, and of persons aged 60 years and upwards 12.
The notification of cases of infectious diseases numbered
32. There were for scarlet fever 16, small-pox 5, diphtheria
5, erysipelas 4, puerperal fever 1, and membranous croup 1.
The Thames at Hampton was, in the early part of last
month, in very bad condition, both chemically and bacterially.
Contrasted with the raw river water the supply of the
Southwark Company showed an improvement of 28 per
cent, chemically and 97 per cent, bacterially. The total
solid matter was 23½ grains per gallon. The water was
efficiently filtered before delivery.
I have inspected Ship and Mermaid Court, Camperdown,
part of Snowsfields, Garden Row, Kirby Street, Ferguson's
Rents, Webb's Court and Suffolk Place. Half of the
houses are empty and in a ruinous condition. The rest of
the houses are generally old, rotten, and worn out; many
of them are small and badly constructed ; some of the
rooms are very low pitched and inadequately lighted and
ventilated. Too many houses are crowded on a limited
area. I am of opinion that the sanitary defects in this
area cannot be effectually remedied otherwise than by an
improvement scheme for the re-arrangement and re-construction
of the streets and houses within this area, and I
have therefore prepared an official representation respecting
the same to be dealt with by the London County Council
under the provisions of Part I. of the Housing of the
Working Classes' Act, 1890.
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