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

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Finsbury 1903

Report on the public health of 1903

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
A—VITAL STATISTICS. PAGE
PAGE The Milk Supply 90
Population 11 Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 120
Births 13 Water Supply 121
Deaths 13 D—HOUSE PROPERTY, &c.
„ in Public Institutions 15 Housing 125
„ in Finsbury Districts 16 Insanitary Areas 126
„ according to age 17 Dwelling Houses Closed 141
„ of Infants 17 Houses Let in Lodgings 145
„ from Senility 20 House Inspection ,49
„ from Infectious Diseases 21 Overcrowding 149
„ in relation to Tenements 21 Common Lodging-Houses 152
Model Dwellings 153
B —RECORDS OF DISEASE. Underground Rooms 156
Notification of Infectious The Housing Question 156
Disease 27
E—FACTORIES AND
Small-Pox 28
WORKSHOPS.
Vaccination 29
Introduction 165
Chicken-Pox 31
Diphtheria 32 Sanitation in Workshops 169
Enteric Fever 37 Home Work 176
Scarlet Fever 40 Outworkers 178
Measles 42 Inspection and Registration 179
Whooping Cough 45 Legal Proceedings 181
Epidemic Diarrhoea 45 Bakehouses 182
Phthisis 51 F—SANITARY ADMINIS-
„ Voluntary Notifica- TRATION, ETC.
tion of 52
The Canal and Canal Boats 199
„ Deaths from 52
Removal and Re-interment of
Other Forms of Tuberculosis 57 Human Remains 203
Cancer 10 Nuisancesarising from Accumu-
Alcoholisin 61 lation of Manure 205
Schools 214
C—FOOD SUPPLY. Disinfection 215
Mortuaries 218
Meat Supply 67 Reception Houses 219
Meat Prosecutions 68 Sanitai-y Inspection 219
Meat Confiscated 77 Legal Proceedingg 222
Slaughter-houses 78 Tables 231
Ice-Cream 78 Vaccination Returns 235
Tinned Peas 79
Cheese Poisoning 87 G—ALIKNS IN FINSBURY.
Restaurants and Eating-houses 89 Appendix.