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CONTENTS.
Introduction 5
Death Statistics 5
Birth-rates and Death-rates 5
Changes in Administration and work of the Public Health Department 6
Lady Sanitary Inspector 6
Consumption—Voluntary Notification of 6
"The Care and Feeding of Infants" Leaflet 6
Births—details of 6
Underground Bakehouses 6
London County Council (General Powers) Act 1904 6
Estimated Population, 1904 6
Rateable Value, 1904 6
Births and Birth-rates 7
Mortality 7
„ Deaths registered in the Borough 7
„ Deaths in Public Instutitions etc., within the Borough 7
,, Deaths of Residents in Public Institutions outside the Borough 8
,, Corrected deaths and death-rates 8
Infantile Mortality 9
Ditto Deaths under one year per 1.000 births 9
Ditto Principal causes of Deaths of Children under one year 9
Senile Mortality 9
Infectious Diseases 10
Deaths from Zymotic Diseases 10
Ditto during the year 1901 and the preceding ten years 10
Notifications of Infectious Diseases in the Borough duiing 1904 and the preceding ten years 11
Small-pox 12
Chicken-pox 13
Scarlet Fever 13
Ditto Secondary Cases 13
Ditto "Return" Cases 13
Diphtheria 13
Ditto Secondary and " Return" Cases 13
Enteric and Continued Fever 14
Measles 14
Whooping Cough 15
Diarrhœa 15
Phthisis or Consumption 15
Ditto ditto Voluntary Notification of Consumption 16
Ditto ditto Sanatoria 16
Ditto ditto Spitting 16
Influenza 17
Alcoholism 17
Cancer 17
Sudden and Violent Deaths 17
Inquests 17
The Public Mortuary 17
Disinfections 18
Bacteriology 18