Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report for the year ending 25th March 1897
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Notification of Infections Diseases 96
Do. Weekly Chart of Infectious Cases notified 96
Removals to Hospitals 96
Disinfection of Infected Premises 97
Disinfection of Bedding, Clothing, &c 97
Disinfectants 98
II.—Constitutional Diseases:— 99
III.—Local Diseases 100
IV.—Sudden and Violent Deaths—Inquests 101
The Public Mortuary, Goldsmith Street 102
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 103
Regulations for Houses let in Lodgings 103
Common Lodging-Houses Acts, 1851-1853 104
Sanitary Congress 106
Sanitary Work 107
Inspections and Orders 108
Proceedings at Bow Street Police Court 108
Overcrowding 108
Underground Sleeping Rooms 108
Factories, Workshops, and Workplaces 109
Animals Improperly Kept 109
Unsound Food 109
Bakehouses 109
Slaughter-Houses 1ll
Cow-Houses Ill
Marine Stores Ill
APPENDIX.
Table 1.—Population 1896, number of Houses, Births, Deaths, Marriages, &c. 114
Table 2.—Birth and Death Rates of Population, and of Children and Deaths
in Public Institutions 115
Table 3.—Deaths Registered from all Causes in 1896 116
Summary of ditto 120
Table 4.—Showing Mortality of certain groups of Diseases 121
Table 5.—Showing Deaths in the ten years from the Seven Principal Zymotic
Diseases 122
Table 6.—Report of Sanitary Work 123
Table 7.—Table of Deaths in St. Giles, 1896, classified according to Disease,
Ages, and Localities (Table A, Local Government Board) 124