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lawful orders and directions of the Sanitary Authority applicable
to his office.
(19.) Whenever We shall make regulations for all or any of the
purposes specified in Section 134 of the Public Health Act,
1875, as extended to London by Section 113 of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, and shall declare the regulations
so made to be in force within his District or any part thereof,
he shall observe such regulations, so far as the same relate to
or concern his office.
The two new tables prescribed by Section 15 of Article 18
of the Order of the Local Government Board will be found
(marked A. and B.) at pages 38 to 41.
In filling up these new tables, I have given my best attention
to the annotations endorsed upon the model forms.
In Table A the nineteenth column is left blank as to its
heading in the model form, in order that each Medical Officer
of Health may, at his discretion, insert any cases which he may
think should be added. I have exercised the discretion thus
vested in me, by inserting the deaths from " Cancer" which have
occurred in my district. Further particulars which I should have
desired to add are shown in other tables which continue, as to
matter and form, the series of Reports hitherto published for
St. James's. Two extra columns might well be devoted to the
tabulation of "Malignant Growths" and "Tuberculous Diseases,"
but for this a greater precision than obtains at present is needed
in the certificates as to the causes of death.
The area and population, to which this Report relates, have
been shown each year in my previous Reports. These data are
now summarized in the following table:—
Area in Acres 162
Population.
Mean
Density of
Population
per Acre.
Census, 1831
37,053
229
,, 1841
37,398
231
,, 1851
36.406
225
,, 1861
35,326
218
,, 1871
33,619
214
,, 1881
29,865
184
,, 1891
24,995
154
,, 1896
23,050
142