London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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City of London 1899

Report on the sanitary condition of the City of London for the year 1899

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CONTENTS.
page.
Sanitary Staff 5
Introduction 9
Area 12
Density 14
Rateable Value 14
Population 14
Mortality—Death Rate 17
Deaths in City Institutions19
„ from Violence 21
Births—Birth Rate 22
Vaccination 25
Abtizans' Dwellings 29
Analysis of Artesian Well Water, Stoney Lane 34
Notification of Infectious Disease 36
Shelter for Temporary Accommodation, Cotton Street 39
New Shelter, Golden Lane 41
Disinfection 56
Disinfectants, and Manufacture of 57
Coroner's Court 58
Sanitary Inspections 59
Outbreak of Enteric Fever 65
House Cisterns for Water Storage 83
Unsound Food (other than Meat) 86
Ventilating Shafts, &c 88
Public Water-Closets 88
House Refuse Removal 91
Skips 92
Summer Flushing of Courts and Alleys 92
Factories and Workshops 100
Tenement Houses, Registration of 105
Tenement Houses Demolished in 1899 130
Dairies and Milk Shops 131
Bakehouses 132
Smoke Nuisances 134
Meat Supplies and its Inspection 135
Diseased Meat Prosecutions 146
Disposal of Condemned Meat 148
Importation of Rabbits 149
Fish Supplies 153
Fish Seizures 156
Public Analyst's Report 163
" Preservatives Committee "—Correspondence 175
APPENDICES.
Details of City Mortality.
General Sanitary Map of the City.