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Kensington 1912

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]

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vii.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
A.—Vital Statistics.
Page
Population 3
Births 4
Deaths 5
„ from Zymotic Diseases 7
„ of Infants 7
Infantile Mortality, Causes of 8
B.- Prevalence of Disease.
Infectious Diseases 15
Small Pox 15
Diphtheria 15
Scarlet Fever 16
Enteric Fever 17
Puerperal Fever 17
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 18
Poliomyelitis 18
Measles 20
Whooping Cough 20
Epidemic Diarrhoea 21
Consumption or Phthisis 21
Other Tuberculous Diseases 34
Cancer 34
C.—Food Supply.
Milk Shops 37
Ice Cream Vendors 38
Places where Food is Sold 38
Bakehouses 39
Slaughter Houses 39
Unsound Food 39
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 40
Cream Regulations, 1912 41
Margarine 41
Water Supply 42
D. —Housing.
Inhabited Houses 45
Council's Lodging Houses 45
Houses Let in Lodgings 46
Furnished Rooms 46
Common Lodging Houses 50
Housing (Inspection of District) Regulations
1910 50
House-to-House Inspection 53
D.—Housing—continued.
Page
Underground Rooms 53
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts 53
E.—Factories and Workshops.
Women's Workshops 57
Home Work 58
Men's Workshops 61
Home Office Tables 61
F.—Sanitation.
Dust Removal 67
Drainage Work 67
Nuisance from Smoke 67
Public Lavatories 67
Sanitary Inspection 67
Legal Proceedings 68
Disinfection 69
Verminous Persons and Rooms 70
Rag Flock Act, 1911 71
Public Baths and Washhouses 71
Public Mortuary 72
Vaccination 72
G.—Appendix.
Local Government Board Tables
Table I.—Vital Statistics, 1912 and
Previous Years 75
Table II.—Infectious Diseases 76
Table III.—Causes of Death 77
Table IV.—Infantile Mortality 78
London County Council Summary
Table IX.—Proceedings during 1912 87
Other Statistical Tables
Table V.—Births and Deaths in
Quinquennial Periods 79
Table VI.—Zymotic Deaths in Quinquennial
Periods 80
Table VII.—Zymotic Death Rates in
Quinquennial Periods 80
Table VIII.—Deaths, Sex, Age and
Cause 81
Table X.--Work of Sanitary Inspectors
88
Table XI.—Vaccination Returns, 1911 89
Table XII.—Houses let in Furnished
Lodgings 90