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The figures on which the rates given in the Registrar-General's Quarterly
Reports are based are necessarily only partly corrected; the final correction
including the transference of births in institutions to the residential area of the
parents is made before the publication of the Registrar-General's Annual Report.
Deaths in Public Institutions.
Of the total number of 492 deaths, 334 died in hospitals and public institutions
either within or without the Borough.
General Provision of Health Services in the Borough.
In the Annual Report for 1930 detailed information was given as to the health
services provided in the Borough. In addition to the arrangements set out therein,
the following may be noted : —
Legislation in Force.
Further by-laws were made by the London County Council under the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Housing Act, 1925, with respect to houses
occupied by members of more than one family. The by-laws were approved by
the Minister of Health and came into operation in June, 1931.
A by-law was also made by the London County Council regulating the
emission of smoke within the County of London. The by-law was allowed by
the Minister of Health and came into force in May, 1931.
Ambulance Facilities.
During the year the Council entered into an agreement with the London
County Council for the ambulances of the County Council to be available for the
conveyance of non-urgent maternity cases between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m.
Pre-School Children.
A special clinic for pre-school children, 2 to 5 years, was opened at the
Municipal Maternity and Child Welfare Centre, No. 10, John Street, on Monday,
the 13th April, 1931.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE BOROUGH.
Scavenging.
The removal of house and trade refuse is carried out by contract. In the
main thoroughfares, and in a number of other principal streets, there is a daily
collection. In the remainder of the streets the collection is twice weekly.
The collection of house refuse from the main streets is completed by
9 a.m., the householders being required to put the bins on the kerb of the footway
in front of their premises between the hours of 6 and 8 a.m. In a few streets
(Bloomsbury Street, south of Great Russell Street, Coptic Street, and Museum
Street) the collection is completed by 10 a.m. daily; the bins in these streets have
to be placed on the kerb ready for emptying not later than 9 a.m. each morning.
This earlier daily collection works well on the whole.