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City of London 1904

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the City of London for the year 1904

Published
1905
Author
Collingridge, William.
Pages
181
Tables
84

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  • Page 11
    TABLE A.
    Area. Statute Acres.Inhabited Houses.Population.
    1891.1901.1891.1901.
  • Page 11
    TABLE B. CENSUS RETURNS.
    Year.Imperial Census. Night Population.City Census. Day Population.
  • Page 13
    Vaccination Statistics in the City of London.
    Year.Number of Births.Successfully Vaccinated.Insusceptible.Had Small pox.Died before Vaccination.Vaccination Postponed.Removed or unaccounted for at the end of the year.Conscientious Objections.
    per cent.per cent.per cent.per cent.per cent.per cent.per cent.
  • Page 13
    Death Rates, per 1,000 per Annum.
    Year.City of London.Great Towns of England and Wales.Metropolis.
  • Page 14
    Percentage of Deaths occurring in Workhouses, Workhouse Infirmaries and Lunatic Asylums to total Deaths in the City of London and the Metropolis respectively, for 1904, compared with the previous five years:—
    Year.City of London.Metropolis.
    Per cent.Per cent.
  • Page 15
    PERCENTAGE OF REGISTERED DEATHS FROM VIOLENCE.
    Year.City of London.Metropolis.
    Per cent.Per cent.
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    VITAL STATISTICS, 1904. City of London compared with, the Metropolis, previous five years.
    City of London.Birth Rate.Death Rate.Deaths of Children under 1 year to 1,000 Births.Violent Deaths, per cent, of Deaths Registered.Deaths from principal Zymotic Disease per 1,000 of the Population.
    Estimated Night Population (Imperial Census).Estimated Day Population(Oorporation Census).City.Metropolis.City.Metropolis.City.Metropolis.City.Metropolis.City.Metropolis.
  • Page 16
    Table I. (This Table is prepared in accordance with the requisitions of the Local Government Board.) Vital Statistics of Whole District during 1904 and Previous Years. Name of District: CITY OF LONDON.
    Year 1Population estimated to Middle of each Year. 2Births.Total Deaths Registered in the District.Total Deaths in Public Institutions in the District. 9Deaths of Nonresidents registered in Public Institutions in the District. 10Deaths of Residents registered in Public Institutions beyond the District. 11Nett Deaths at all Ages belonging to the District.
    Under 1 Year of Age.At all Ages.
    Number 3Rate.1 4Number. 5Rate per 1,000 Births registered. 6Number. 7Rate.18Number. 12Rate.* 13
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    Causes of, and Ages at, Death during Year 1904.
    Deaths in or belonging to whole District at subjoined ages.deaths in or belonging to local ities (at all AGES).Total Deaths in Public Institutions in the district
    At all ages.Under 1 year1 and under 5.5 and under 16.15 and under 25.25 and under 65.65 and upwardsSt. Botolph.St. Sepulchre.*
    I.2.3.4.5.0.7.8.9.10.11.
  • Page 18
    METEOROLOGY at Greenwich, andDEATH RATES recorded in London and the City respectively for each year from 1894 to 1904.
    Year18941895189618971898189919001901190219031904
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    NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE. In the following Tables will be found particulars of the cases of infectious disease notified under Sections 55 and 56 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, during 1904, and information as to the removal of patients to hospitals, &c.:—
    NATURE OF DISEASE.Number of Certificates received.Treated at Home.Removed to the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals.Removed to the London Fever Hospital.Treated at other Hospitals and Infirmaries.Duplicate Certificates received.Diagnosis incorrect.
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    The percentage of cases removed to hospital and treated at home during the year was as under:—
    Removed to Hospital.Treated at Home.
    Per cent.Per cent.
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    TABLE C. Return of infectious disease, exclusive of Chicken-pox and Phthisis, occurring in the City of London, with the percentage of such cases removed to hospital or treated at home during 1904, compared with the previous five years:—
    Year.Number of cases reported.Per cent, of cases reported.
    Removed to Hospital.Treated at Home.
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    The mortality per cent, of those attacked with Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever and Enteric Fever was
    Recovered.Died.Total.Case mortality per cent.
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    Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1904.
    Disease.Cases notified in Whole District.Total Cases notified in each Locality.No. of Cases removed to Hospital from each Locality.
    At all Ages.At Ages—Years.St. Botolph.St. Sepulchre.St. Botolph.St. Sepulchre.
    Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 65.65 and upwards.
  • Page 29
    In the appended Tables the results are described in their proper sequence:—
    County.Sample.Guinea Pigs.Inoculated.Died.Killed.Result.
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    County.Sample.Guinea Pigs.Inoculated.Died.Killed.Result.
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    Continued from previous page...
    County.Sample.Guinea Pigs.inoculated.Died.Killed.Result.
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    Continued from previous page...
    County.Sample.Guinea Pigs.Inoculated.Died.Killed.Result.
  • Page 33
    Summary of Results. Table A.
    Character of Milk.Number of Samples.Percentage.
  • Page 53
    Table of Births and Deaths occurring at the Artizans' Dwellings, Stoney Lane, Houndsditch, during the year 1904.
    Name of Block.Births.Mortality from all Causes at subjoined Ages.
    At all ages.Under 1 year.l and under 55 and under 1615 and under 2525 and under 6060 and upwards.
    Male.Female.
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    tde following is a record of tde attendances from tdat date to tde end of tde year:—
    Montd.Sex.Total.
    Males.Females.
  • Page 54
    Number of Articles disinfected, Bodies received at the Mortuary, and Inquests held at the Coroner's Court in the City during 1904, compared with the previous five years.
    Year.Articles of Bedding, &c., disinfected.Bodies received at the Mortuary.Inquests held on bodies.Inquests held on Fires.
  • Page 55
    The amounts spent during the past twelve months under these several headings were:—
    £s.d.
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    WEST DISTRICT. (Inspector F. J. Robbins.)
    Date of Report.Premises inspected.Orders issued.Notices served.Works completed.
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    MIDDLE DISTRICT. (Inspector E. J. Simmons.)
    Date of Report.Premises inspected.Orders issued.Notices served.Works completed.
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    EAST DISTRICT. (Inspector - W. H. Ralph.)
    Date of Report.Premises inspected.Orders issued.Notices served.Works completed.
  • Page 57
    The foregoing are summarised as under :—
    District.Number of inspections made.Orders issued.Notices served.Improvements effected.
  • Page 58
    Sanitary Inspections During 1904, compared with previous five years.
    Year.Inspections made.Sanitary Improvements effected.Notices served.
  • Page 65
    The following shows the number of stables and horses stalled therein in the three sanitary districts:—
    District.No. of Stables.No. of Horses.
  • Page 70
    Refuse Dealt with during 1904 and previous Five Years.
    Year.Street Sweepings and Slop.House and Trade Refuse.Total.No. of Loads Cremated in Destructor.Per Cent. Cremated.
  • Page 70
    Those now on the Register are:—
    District.No. of Houses on Register.No of Lodgers.No. of Tenements.Average No. of Persons per Tenement.Sanitary Notices Served.
  • Page 71
    Tn addition to the foregoing there are eleven Blocks of dwellings let out in tenements, but not placed on the Register for the reason that each holding is "self-contained," it having been decided in a Court of Law that under these circumstances they are not subject to the Bye-laws for houses let in lodgings, or occupied by members of more than one family:—
    Situation.No. of Tenements.No. of Inhabitants.
  • Page 84
    A comparison of the number of such notifications received in past years with the year under review shows as follows:—
    Year.No. of Complaints received.
  • Page 85
    The following is a list of those registered:—
    Premises.Trade.Workers.Total Workers.
    M.F.
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    1—INSPECTION. Inspections made by Sanitary Inspectors.
    Premises.Number of
    Inspections.Written Notices.Prosecutions.
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    2.—DEFECTS FOUND.
    Particulars.Number of Defects.Number of Prosecution).
    Found.Remedied.Referred to H.M. Inspector.
  • Page 89
    3—OTHER MATTERS.
    Class.Number.
  • Page 112
    Table showing the annual deliveries and other details during the past 31 years:— MEAT SUPPLIES, 1874 TO 1904.
    Year.General Supply,Seizures by Inspectors.% of Bad Meat.
    Tonscwts.qrs.Tonscwts.qrs.
  • Page 113
    Monthly Deliveries at the Corporation Markets, Smithfield.
    MONTH.1902.1903.1904.
    Tonscwts.qrs.Tonscwts.qrs.Tonscwts.qrs.
  • Page 113
    The sources of origin during the past nine years are here expressed in terms per cent. of total annual deliveries.
    Country Killed.Town Killed.*Foreign Killed.American.Australian and New Zealand.
    Home Killed.American Killed.
    Per cent.Per cent.Per cent.Per cent.Per cent.Per cent.
  • Page 114
    Some idea of the magnitude of the work of your Inspectors of Slaughterhouses and Meat may be obtained from the following figures supplied by the Superintendent of the Market:—
    1902.1903.1904.
    Tons.Tons.Tons.
  • Page 114
    MEAT INSPECTION. The seizures of diseased and unsound meat amounted to 1,156 tons 2 cwts. 1 qr., including 440 tons 10 cwts. 3 qrs. 10 lbs. of imported frozen and chilled meat.
    Month.1902.1903.1904.
    Tonscwts.qrs.Tonscwts.qrs.Tonscwts.qrs.
  • Page 115
    UNSOUND MEAT, 1904. The meat seized by your Inspectors as unfit for the food of man is classified as under:—
    1904.Diseased.Putrid.Unwholesome.Poultry.Offal.Fish.Total.
    tons.cwts.qrslbs.tons.cwts.qrs.lbs.tons.CWt8.qrs.lbs.tons.cwts.qrslbs.tons.cwts.qrs.lbs.tons.cwtsqrslbs.tons.cwts.qrslbs.
  • Page 115
    The percentages of Meat seized under a summary of the various headings of the above Table and for the preceding five years, were as follows:—
    Year.Diseased.Putrid*Unwholesome.
    Per Cent.Per Cent.Per Cent.
  • Page 116
    CENTRAL MARKETS, SMITHFIELD. Table showing Weight of Meat delivered, seized as unsound, and proportion condemned to that delivered during each Month of the Year 1904.
    Month.Meat delivered at the Market.Meat seized by the Inspectors.Ratio of Meat condemned to that delivered.
    Tonscwts.qrs.Tonscwts.qrs.
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    DISEASED MEAT PROSECUTIONS, 1904.
    Date of Hearing.Where Heard.Before whom.Occupation of Person Summoned.Defendant's Place of Business.Result.
  • Page 118
    Of the above, 175,487 tons were consigned to Billingsgate Market, the remainder, viz., 68,319, being delivered at the salesmen's shops in the neighbourhood of the Market.
    Year.Fish Delivered at Billingsgate Market.Fish Delivered in the neighbourhood of Billingsgate Market.Total Deliveries.
    Tons.Tons.Tons.
  • Page 118
    MONTHLY FISH RETURNS, 1904. Table showing Weight of Fish Delivered, Fish seized as Unsound, and percentage of Fish Condemned to that Delivered, at or near Billingsgate Market, and on board boats lying off that place, during each month of the year 1904.
    Month.Weight of Fish Delivered.*Total.Weight of Fish Condemned.Ratio of Fish Condemned to that Delivered.
    By Land.By Water.
    Tons.Tons.Tons.Tons.cwt.qrs.
  • Page 119
    Weight of Fish Delivered, Fish seized as Unsound, and percentage of Fish Condemned to that Delivered, at or near Billingsgate Market during 1904 and the five years 1899-1903.
    Year.Weight of Fish Delivered.Total.Weight of Fish Condemned.Ratio of Fish Condemned to that Delivered.
    By Land.By Water.
    Tons.Tons.Tons.Tonscwtsqrs.
  • Page 119
    The material so disposed of comprised:—
    Tons.Cwts.Qrs.
  • Page 120
    The figures for 1904 and the three preceding years were as follows:—
    Year1901.1902.1903.1904.
  • Page 120
    For the purpose of comparison the following Table is given showing the percentage of adulteration in England and Wales since 1877:—
    Per cent.
  • Page 121
    The accompanying Table has been partly compiled from the Annual Reports of the Local Government Board, to which are added some figures for the City of London, and London as a whole:—
    Year.Total Number of Samples Examined in England and Wales.Number Examined in the City of London.Percentage of Total Number Examined in City of London.Number of Persons to each Sample examined.
    England and Wales.*City of London.London.
  • Page 121
    MILK. It is satisfactory to note that the decrease in the number of cases of milk adulteration is maintained, as shown by the following figures:—
    Year1901.1902.1903.1904.
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    Analysis of Milk Consigned to City Dealers taken on Delivery in Railway Stations.
    Date.Number of SAMPLE.From what County.Result of Analysis.
    Fat.Solids (not fat).Total Solids.
  • Page 124
    The accompanying figures are those for 1904 and the three preceding years:—
    Years1901.1902.1903.1904.
  • Page 129
    The number of samples of butter, cheese, milk and cream taken at ports of entry during 1903, and two preceding years, were as under:—
    Year.No. of samples.Found adulterated.Percentage of adulteration.
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    SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS, 1875-1899. Articles examined during each Quarter of the year 1904.
    Articles submitted for Analysis.Quarter ending 31st March.Quarter ending 30th June.Quarter ending 30th September.Quarter ending 31st December.Total for 1904.
    No. of Samples taken.No. Genuine.No. Adulterated.Percentage of adulteration.No. of Samples taken.No. Genuine.No. Adulterated.Percentage of adulteration.No. of Samples taken.No. Genuine.No. Adulterated.Percentage of adulteration.No. of Samples taken.No. Genuine.No. Adulterated.Percentage of adulteration.No. of Samples taken.No. Genuine.No. Adulterated.Percentage of adulteration.
  • Page 132
    RESULTS OF PROSECUTIONS. First Quarter.
  • Page 133
    Fourth Quarter.
    Sample.Nature and Extent of Adulteration.Result.
  • Page 133
    SUMMARY.
    £s.d.£s.d.
  • Page 137
    STREET LISTS, Compiled from "Weekly Returns of Registrars of Sub-Districts.
    STREET OR PLACE.No. of House.Sex.Age.Date of Death.Certified Cause of Death.Remarks.
  • Page 138
    CITY OF LONDON MORTALITY—continued.
    STREET OR PLACE.No. of House.Sex.Age.Date of Death.Certified Cause of Death.Remarks.
  • Page 139
    CITY OF LONDON MORTALITY—continued.
    STREET OR PLACE.No. of House.Sex.Age.Date of Death.Certified Cause of Death.Remarks.
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    ARTIZANS' DWELLINGS—STONEY LANE, HOUNDSDITCH.
    STREET OR PLACE.No. of House.Sex.Age.Date of Death.Certified Cause of Death.Remarks.
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    STREET LISTS. Compiled from Notifications received.
    Street or Place.No. of House.Sex.Age.Disease.
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    Street or Place.No. of House.Sex.Age.Disease.
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    Continued from previous page...
    Street ok Place.No. of House.Sex.Age.Disease.
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    TENEMENT HOUSES. WEST DISTRICT.
    Situation of Premises.Name and Address of Owner.Tenements.Lodgers.
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    WEST DISTRICT—continued.
    Situation of Premises.Name and Address of Owner.Tenements.Lodgers.
  • Page 145
    WEST DISTRICT— continued.
    Situation of Premises.Name and Address of Owner.Tenements.Lodgers.
  • Page 146
    WEST DISTRICT—continued.
    Situation of Premises.Name and Address of Owner.Tenements.Lodgers.
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    MIDDLE DISTRICT.
    Situation of Premises.Name and Address of Owner.Tenements.Lodgers.
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    EAST DISTRICT.
    Situation of Premises.Name and Address of Owner.Tenements.Lodgers.
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    EAST DISTRICT—continued.
    Situation of Premises.Name and Address of Owner.Tenements.Lodgers
  • Page 150
    EAST DISTRICT—continued.
    Situation of Premises.Name and Address of Owner.Tenements.Lodgers.
  • Page 151
    EAST DISTRICT—continued.
    Situation of Premises.Name and Address of Owner.Tenements.Lodgers.
  • Page 152
    List of Persons registered under the Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Order. 1st January, 1905.
    Premises.Person Registered.Premises.Person Registered.
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    Premises.Person Registered.Premises.Person Registered.
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    Continued from previous page...
    Premises.Person Registered.Premises.Person Registered.
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    Continued from previous page...
    Premises.Person Registered.Premises.Person Registered.
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    Continued from previous page...
    Premises.Person Registered.Premises.Person Registered.
  • Page 160
    (2) He shall construct such soil pipe, whetder inside or outside tde building, so tdat its weight, if tde pipe be of lead, and its tdickness and weight, if tde pipe be of iron, in proportion to its lengtd and internal diameter, shall be: —
    Diameter.Lead. Weight per 10 feet lengtd, not less tdanIron.