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City of London 1900
Report on the proceedings of the Public Health (Sanitary) Department of the Corporation of London during the year 1900
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* DISINFECTANTS.
No less than 55,030 gallons of disinfectants
were manufactured at Golden Lane, 54,265 of
which were distributed for various purposes
throughout the City, 765 gallons remaining
in stock at the end of the year.
MORTALITY.
During the past year, 987 deaths were
registered in the City, including 609 of persons
dying in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, who were
not residents in the City. Deducting the 609
deaths of non-residents, and adding 146 deaths
of residents who died at City Institutions in
outside districts, a total of 524 deaths is obtained
on which the death rate has been calculated.
The death rate for 1900 was 19.4 per 1,000
per annum of the population (compared with
18.5 of the previous year), whilst that for the
whole of the Metropolis was 18.8. These
*Note.—To effect economy in cartage, on the suggestion of the Superintendent
of Cleansing, disinfectants are now manufactured in a more
concentrated form, and at a lower initial cost.—W. 0.