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Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health,—1893. 89
CONTENTS.
SECTION I.—STATISTICAL:-
Facts concerning the Sanitary District 3
Houses 4
Number of Occupants of Tenements 4
Population 5
Births and Birth Rate for 1893 6
Death Rate per 1000 for 1893 6
Deaths and Death Rate for 1893 7
Deaths in Public Institutions 8
Death Rate of Sub-Districts 8
Density of Population 8
Poverty 9
Zymotic or Preventable Death Rate 11
Zymotic Disease Mortality 12
Cases admitted to Hospital Ships 18
Vaccination of Children 21
Cholera 24
Respiratory Diseases 28
Alcoholic Excess 29
Mortality of Infants and Children 29
Table of Deaths during 1893 32
Table of Population, Births, and New Cases of Infectious Sickness, 1893 33
SECTION II.—GENEBAL:—
Water Supply of the Parish 34
Salvation Army Shelter and Small-pox 37
Increase of Sanitary Inspectors 39
Prevention of the Spread of the Communicable Disease through the Agency of Schools 42
Sewage flooding in Basements 43
Metropolitan Ambulance Service 43
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts, 1890 45
Factory and Workshops Act, 1891 45
Mortuary and Coroner's Court 46
Notification of Infectious Diseases 46