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VII.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
A.—Vital Statistics.
Page.
Population 3
Births 4
Deaths 5
„ from Zymotic Diseases 7
„ of Infants 8
Infantile Mortality, Causes of 9
Children Act, 1908 13
B.-Prevalence of Disease.
Infectious Diseases 17
Small Pox 17
Diphtheria 17
Scarlet Fever 18
Enteric Fever 19
Puerperal Fever 20
Measles 20
Whooping Cough 21
Influenza 21
Epidemic Diarrhœa 21
Consumption or Phthisis 24
Other Tuberculous Diseases 28
Causes of Disablement 28
Alcoholism 28
Cancer 28
C.—Food Supply.
Recent Legislation 33
Milk Shops 34
Ice Cream Vendors 34
Restaurants 34
Underground Bakehouses 35
Slaughter Houses 35
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 35
Margarine 36
Water Supply 37
D.—Housing.
Inhabited Houses 41
Council's Lodging Houses 41
Houses Let in Lodgings 41
Furnished Rooms 42
House to House Inspection 42
Overcrowding 42
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts 42
D.—Housing—continued.
Page.
Common Lodging Houses 42
Housing, etc., Act, 1909 43
London (General Powers) Acts 44
E.—Factories and Workshops.
Women's Workshops 47
Basement Workrooms 48
Home Work 48
Men's Workshops 51
Home Office Tables 52
F.-Sanitation.
Dust Removal 57
Drainage Work 57
Public Lavatories 57
Nuisance from Smoke 57
Legal Proceedings 57
Sanitary Inspection 57
Disinfection 58
Verminous Persons 58
Public Mortuary 60
Vaccination 61
G.—Appendix.
Local Government Board Tables.
Table I.—Vital Statistics, 1909 and
Previous Years 65
Table II.—Statistics for Separate
Localities 66
Table III.—Infectious Diseases 67
Table IV.—Causes of Death 68
Table V.—Infantile Mortality 69
London County Council Summary.
Table VI.—Proceedings during 1909 70
Other Statistical Tables
Table VII.—Work of Sanitary Inspectors
71
Table VIII.—Deaths, Sex, Age and
Cause 72
Table IX.—Births and Deaths in
Quinquennial Periods 80
Table X.—Zymotic Deaths in Quinquennial
Periods 81
Table XI.—Zymotic Death Rates in
Quinquennial Periods 81
Table XII.—Vaccination Returns, 1908 82