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St George (Southwark) 1896

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, The Vestry of the Parish of St. George the Martyr]

Published
1897
Pages
218
Tables
120

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    Return of Vestrymen's Attendances, at Vestry and Committee Meetings. June 2nd, 1896, to May 4t h , 1897.
    NAME.Ward.Vestry and Committee of Whole Vestry.STANDING COMMITTEESSPECIAL COMMITTEESSUB-COMMITTEES.Total ACTUAL Attendances at Vestry and Committees.Total POSSIBLE Attendances at Vestry and Committees.NAME.
    Works.Public Health and Sewers.General Purposes and Trees and Open Spaces.Finance.Bye-Laws.City & South London Railway.Clerk's Salaries.Amalgamation Bill.M. O. H's Supplementary Report.Kent Street Trustees.Newington Butts.Paragon.Jubilee Decorations.Conference re Jubilee Decorations.Deputation to G. P. Committee.Measles.Belvidere Place.Disinfection.Frozen Mains.Bye-Laws as to Drains.Boro' Road Urinals.Lighting.Sick Pay, Scavenging, &c.Buckenham Square.Snow.Loin Cloths, &c.Newington Causeway.Re-Naming Streets.Office Alterations.Year Book.Recreation Ground.Junior Clerk.Depot.Sub-Special re Jubilee.
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    The Liabilities and Assets Account shews the following figures:—
    Liabilities:—
    £s.d.
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    Assets :—
    £s.d.
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    INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT. GENERAL, RATE. March 26th, 1896, to March 26th, 1897.
    INCOME.EXPENDITURE.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
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    Continued from previous page...
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    INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT. SEWER RATE. March 26th, 1896, to March 2Sth, 1897.
    INCOME.EXPENDITURE.
    £s.d.£s.d.£3.d.£8.d.
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    LIABILITIES AND ASSETS ACCOUNT. March 25th, 1897.
    LIABILITIES.ASSETS.
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
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    Continued from previous page...
    LIABILITIES.ASSETS.
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    CAPITAL ACCOUNT March 25th, 1897.
    £s.d.£s.d£s.d.£s. d.
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    LOANS OUTSTANDING. DETAILS OF INTEREST,
    March 26th, 1897.Accrued Due-
    £s.d.£s.d.£s.d.£s.d.
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    STATEMENT OF CONTRACTS ENTERED INTO BY THE VESTRY IN THE YEAR PRECEDING THE 25 th DAY OF MARCH, 1897. 18 & 19 Vict., cap. 120, s. 196.
    Contractor.Name of Contract.Terms and Amount.
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    Statement shewing quantities of Dust and Slop, carted to Mr. Murrell's Wharf, Blackfriars Bridge—March 26th, 1896, to March 25th, 1897.
    DUST.SLOP.
    Date.Wharf.Total Tonnage.RateCost.Total Tonnage.RateCost.
    TonCwt.Qr.£s.d.TonCwt.Qr.£s.d.
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    Statement shewing cost of Removal of Dust and Slop for the last Seven Years:-
    DUST.SLOP.TOTAL.
    Newington Vestry.
    Yenr EndingTons.Ct.Qr.£s.d.Tons.Ct.Qr.£s.d.Tons.Ct.Qr.£8.d.
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    Strand District Board.
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    Mr. Murkell's Wharf.
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    The following lengths of sewers have been cleared out by flushers:— BRICK SEWERS CLEANED OUT.
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    PIPE SEWERS OPENED AND CLEANED OUT.
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    Analysis of Wages paid in the various Departments, from March 26th, 1896, to March 25th, 1897.
    £s.d.
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    Schedule of Wood- Paved Roads in Parish.
    Name of Street.Position of Paving.Date when Paved.Date when Re-paved.Area.Total Cost.Cost per Yard.Description of Paving, and by whom laid.
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    HORSE RETURN.
    No.Name of Horse.Bought ofCost. £Date of Death or Sale.Amount Sold for. £ s. d.
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    MACADAM CARRIAGEWAYS. 1896.
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    Sundries:—
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    SETT CARRIAGEWAYS.
    1896£s.d.£s.d.
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    Sundries:—
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    WOOD BLOCK CARRIAGEWAYS.
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    ASPHALTE CARRIAGEWAYS.
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    YORK FOOTWAYS, 1896—7.
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    TAR PAVED FOOTWAYS.
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    ASPHALTE FOOTWAYS, 1896—7.
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    Sundries
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    CURBS AND CHANNELS, 1896—7.
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    GREASING CARTS AND VANS.
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    REPAIRING VANS.
    £s.d.£8..d.
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    Continued from previous page...
    £s.d.£s.d.
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    REPAIRING TOOLS.
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    Roadmen's Tools:-
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    Continued from previous page...
    £s.d.£8.d
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    Scavengers' Tools :—
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    SUNDRY REPAIRS TO PLANT.
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    Making New Plant
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    SUNDRY LABOUR.
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    Continued from previous page...
    £s.d.£s.d.
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    VESTRY HALL, DEPOTS, &c
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    REPAIRS AND RE-CONSTRUCTION OF SEWERS AND DRAINS.
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    CONSTRUCTING AND REPAIRING GULLIES,
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    Continued from previous page...
    £s.d.
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    Continued from previous page...
    £s.d.£s.d.
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    Continued from previous page...
    £s.d.£8.d.
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    PUBLIC CONVENIENCES.
    £s.d.£s.d.
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    Continued from previous page...
    £s.d.
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    Continued from previous page...
    £s.d.
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    Continued from previous page...
    £s.d.
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    WATERING ROADS
    £s.d.£s.d.
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    Continued from previous page...
    £s.d.£s.d.
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    SWAN STREET STABLES.
    £s.d.£s.d.
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    ESTABLISHMENT CHARGES. Foremen, Watchmen, Timekeeper and Yard Labourers:—
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    WILLIAM NEVILLE, THOMAS HAYNES and RICHARD RAMSDEN FULTON, Churchwardens.
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    WILLIAM NEVILLE, THOMAS HAYNES AND RICHARD RAMSDEN FULTON, Churchwardens.
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    WILLIAM NEVILLE, THOMAS HAYNES AND RICHARD RAMSDEN FULTON, Churchwardens.
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    WILLIAM NEVILLE, THOMAS HAYNES AND RICHARD RAMSDEN FULTON, Churchwardens.
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    THE DRAPER'S COMPANY IN RESPECT OF JOHN WALTER'S TRUST.
    Dr.Cr.
    1896.1896.
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    Dr. THE DRAPER'S COMPANY IN RESPECT OF SAINT GEORGE THE MARTYR, SOUTHWARK, ALMSHOUSES. Cr.
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    Dr. THE OVERSEERS AS TO THE GENERAL RATE. Collected between March 26th, 1896, and March 25th, 1897. Cr.
    RECEIPTS.PAYMENTS.
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    Dr. THE OVERSEERS AS TO THE SEWERS RATE made between March 26th, 1896, and March 25th, 1897. Cr.
    RECEIPTS.PAYMENTS.
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    Dr. THE OVERSEERS IN ACCOUNT WITH THE POOR RATE, for the Half Year ending Michaelmas, 1896. Cr.
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    Dr. THE OVERSEERS IN ACCOUNT WITH THE POOR RATE, for the Half Year ending Michaelmas, 1896. Cr.
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    An Account of the Parochial Rates and of the Collection and Balancing thereof respectively.
    RATES.COLLECTION.
    Made on the 4th day of April, 1896.POOR RATE.GENERAL RATE.SEWERS RATE.TOTALS.POOR RATE.GENERAL RATE.SEWERS RATE.totals.
    9d. in the £.8d. in the £.17d. in the £.
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    An Account of the Parochial Rates and of the Collection and Balancing thereof respectively.
    Made on the 4 th day of July, 1896.RATES.COLLECTION.
    POOR RATE.GENERAL RATE.SEWERS RATE.TOTALS.POOR RATE.GENERAL RATE.SEWERS RATE.TOTALS.
    10d in the £.7d. in the £.2d. in the £.19d. in the £.
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    An Account of the Parochial Rates and of the Collection and Balancing thereof respectively.
    Made on the 3rd day of October, 1896.RATES.COLLECTION.
    POOR RATE.GENERAL RATE (INCLUDING SEWERS RATE).SEWERS RATE. ARREARS.TOTALS.POOR RATE.GENERAL RATE.SEWERS RATE.TOTALS.
    12d. in the £10d in the £.22d in the £
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    An Account of the Parochial Rates and of the Collection and Balancing thereof respectively.
    Made on the 2nd day of January, 1897.RATES.COLLECTION.
    POOR RATE.GENERAL RATE.SEWERS RATE.TOTALS.POOR RATE.GENERAL RATE.SEWERS RATE.TOTALS.
    13d. in the £.8d. in the £.1s 9d. in the £.
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    Receipts, Expenditure, Balances and Liabilities of the Guardians of St. Saviour's Union. For the Half Year ended October 3rd, 1896.
    PARISHES.BALANCE in favour of each Parish at the commencement of this Half Year.RECEIPTS.BALANCE against each Parish at the end of this Half Year.Total.BALANCE against each Parish at the commencement of this Half-year.EXPENDITURE.BALANCE in favour of each Parish at the end of this Half-year.Total.
    Contributions paid during this Half Year.All other Receipts.Common Charges.Separate Charges.Loan and Interest RepaidCounty Rate.
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    For the Half Year ended March 27th, 1897.
    PARISHES.BALANCE in favour of each Parish at the commencement of this Half-Year.RECEIPTS.BALANCE against each Parish at the end of this Half Year.TotalBALANCE against each Parish at the commencement of this Half-year.EXPENDITURE.BALANCE in favour of each Parish at the end of this Half-year.Total.
    Contributions paid during this Half-Year.All other Receipts.Common Charges.Separate Charges.Loans and Interest RepaidCounty Rate.
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    Particulars of Common Charge of the St. Saviour's Union.
    For the Half Year ending October 3rd, 1896.For the Half Year ending March 27th, 1897.
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    Account of the Income, Expenditure and Liabilities of the School Board for London. For the Half Year ending 25th March, 1896.
    Dr.RECEIPTS.EXPENDITURE.Cr.
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    Account of the Income, Expenditure and Liabilities of the School Board for London. For the Half-Year ending 25th March, 1896— continued.
    Dr.RECEIPTS.EXPENDITURE.Cr.
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    Account of the Income, Expenditure and Liabilities of the School Board for London. For the Half-Year ending 25th March, 1896— Continued.
    Dr.RECEIPTS.EXPENDITURE.Cr.
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    Account of the Income, Expenditure, and Liabilities of the School Board for London. For the Half Year 29th September, 1896— Continued.
    Dr.RECEIPTS.EXPENDITURE.
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    Account of the Income, Expenditure and Liabilities of the School Board for London. For the Half Year ending 29 th September, 1896.
    Dr.RECEIPTS.EXPENDITURE.Cr.
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    Account of the Income, Expenditure and Liabilities of the School Board for London. For the Half-Year ending 29th September, 1896— continued.
    DrRECEIPTS.EXPENDITURE.Cr.
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    Account of the Income, Expenditure and Liabilities of the School Board for London. For the Half-Year ending '29th September, 1896— Continued.
    Dr.RECEIPTS.EXPENDITURE.Cr.
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    Account of the Income, Expenditure, and Liabilities of the School Board for London. For the Half Year 29th September, 1896— Continued.
    Dr.RECEIPTS.EXPENDITURE.Cr.
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    TABLE I. London Census, 1896.
    Name of Registration Sub-District.Area in Acres.No. of Schedules.HOUSES.POPULATION.
    Inhabited.Uninhabited.Males.Females.Total.
    Empty.Occupied in Daytime but not at Night.Building.
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    TABLE II.
    Sub.District.Birth.rate per 1,000.
    1894.1895.1896.
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    TABLE III.
    Sub-District.No. of Deaths.Death-rate per 1,000.Deaths under 1 year to 1,000 Births.
    1896.1895.1896.1895.1896.1895.
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    TABLE IV.
    Sub-District.Death-rate per 1,000.
    1892-3-4-5-61896
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    TABLE V.
    Years.St. George, Southwark.London.
    Death.rate per 1,000.Death.rate per 1,000.
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    TABLE VI.—For the Year 1896.
    Birth.rate per 1,000.Death.rate per 1,000.Zymotic death.rate.Influenza death.rate.Phthisis death.rate.Other Tubercular Diseases death.rate.Respiratory Diseases death.rate.Deaths under 1 year, to 1,000 births.Percentage of deaths under 5 to total deaths.
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    TABLE VII. Mortality in St. George's, in 1896, from the Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases.
    Disease.Actual number of Deaths in St. George's, Southwark.St. George's, Southwark, proportion to total London deaths according to its population.
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    Respiratory Diseases. TABLE VIII.
    Sub-District.No. of Deaths—1895.TotalNo. of Deaths—1896.Total
    BronchitisPneumoniaPhthisisBronchitisPneumoniaPhthisis
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    The following are the most prominent Diseases causing the Infant Mortality under one year of age:- TABLE IX.
    Deaths1892.1893.1894.1895.1896.
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    Table X. TABLE OF DEATHS during the Year 1896, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of St. George's, Southward; Classified According to Diseases, Ages, and Localities. (Prepared in accordance with the instructions of the Local Government Board.)
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics ; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.MORTALITY FROM ALL CAUSES AT SUBJOINED AGES.MORTALITY FROM SUBJOINED CAUSES, DISTINGUISHING DEATHS OF CHILDREN UNDER FIVE YEARS OF AGE.
    At all ages.Under 1 year.1 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 65.65 and upwards.Small-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera,Erysipelas.Measles.Whooping Cough.Diarrhoea and Dysentery.Rheumatic Fever.Phthisis.Bronchitis, Pneumonia, and Pleurisy.Heart Disease.Influenza.Injuries.All other Diseases.Total.
    Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
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    Table XI. TABLE OF POPULATION, BIRTHS, AND OF NEW CASES OF INFECTIOUS SICKNESS, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the year, 1896, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of St. George's, Southward ; classified according to Diseases, Ages, and Localities. (Prepared in accordance with the instructions of the Local Government Board.)
    Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all ages.Registered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.New Cases of Sickness in each Locality coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health.Number of such Cases Removed from thbir homes in the several Localities for treatment in Isolation Hospital.
    Small-pox.Scarlatina.DiphtheriaMembranous. Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Small-pox.Scarlatina.DiphtheriaMembranous Croup.Fevers.CholeraErysipelas.
    Census 1891.Esti-matedto middle of 1896.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus|Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
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    TABLE XIII.
    Premises.Date of Official Representation.Result.
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    List of Slaughter-houses licensed by the London County Council, in October, 1896.
    Name.Situation.
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    List of Horse Knackers' Yards licensed by the London County Council in October, 1896.
    Name.Situation.
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    List of Cow-houses licensed by the London County Council, in October, 1896.
    Name.Situation.No. of Cows.
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    TABLE XI V .
    YearNo. of Cows.No. of Cowhouses.
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    List of Bakehouses under Inspection in St. George the Martyr, 1896.
    No. 1 Ward.No. 2 Ward.No. 3 Ward.
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    The statistics are as follows:— No. of Infected Tenements.
    Disease.1Room.2 Rooms.3 Rooms.Total.
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    No. of Persons Occupying Infected Tenements.
    1 Room.2 Rooms.3 Rooms.Total.
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    ROOM DISINFECTION. Riplies to Queries of Vestry Clerk.
    Vestry or District Board.In cases were infections disease has occurred and the rooms have been disinfected by your Sanitary Staff, is it the practice of your Authority to subsequently serve notices on Owners of property to strip and cleanse the walls, &c., of the rooms?If this practice is followed, are the notices generally complied with, without resort to the Magistrates?
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    ROOM DISINFECTION.— Continued.
    Vestry or District Board,In cases were infectious disease has occurred and the rooms have been disinfected by your Sanitary Staff, is it the practice of your Authority to subsequently serve notices on Owners of property to strip and cleanse the walls, &c., of the rooms?If this practice is followed, are the notices generally complied with, without resort to the Magistrates?
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    Deaths at all ages.
    1892.1893.1894.1895.
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    SAMPLES SUBMITTED TO THE PUBLIC ANALYST.
    Name of Sample.MargarineAdulterated.Unadulterated.Total.
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    Table I. Corrected Return of Cause of Death in the Registration Sub-Districts during the 53 Weeks ending January 2nd, 1897.
    CAUSE OF DEATH.borough Roadlondon roadKent Road.
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    Table I. —(Continued.) Corrected Return of Cause of Death in the Registration Sub-Districts during the 53 Weeks ending January 2nd, 1897.
    CAUSE OF DEATH.Borough Road.London Road.Kent Road.
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    Table I. —(Continued). Corrected Return of Cause of Death in the Registration Sub-Districts during the 53 Weeks ending January 2nd, 1897.
    CAUSE OF DEATH.Borough Road.London Road.Kent Boad.
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    Table I. —(Continued). Corrected Return of Cause of Death in the Registration Sub-Districts during the 53 Weeks ending January 2nd, 1897.
    CAUSE OF DEATH.Borough Road.London Road.Kent Road.
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    TABLE II. Summary of Return of Cause of Death (Corrected.)
    Cause of Death.Total.
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    Table III. Corrected Return of Cause of Death of Infants under One Year in the Registration Sub-Districts during the 53 Weeks ending January 2nd, 1897.
    CAUSE OF DEATH.Borough roadLondon roadKent Road.
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    Table III. —(Continued.) Corrected Return of Cause of Death of Infants under One Year in the Registration Sub-Districts during the 53 Weeks ending January 2nd, 1897.
    CAUSE OF DEATH.Borough Road.London Road.Kent Road.
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    Table III. —(Continued). Corrected Return of Cause of Death of Infants under One year in the Registration Sub-Districts during the 53 Weeks ending January 2nd, 1897.
    CAUSE OF DEATH.Borough Road.London Road.Kent Road.
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    Table III. —(Continued). Corrected Return of Cause of Death of Infant s under One Year in the Registration Sub-Districts during the 53 Weeks ending January 2nd, 1897.
    CAUSE OF DEATH.Borough Road.London Road.Kent Road.
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    Return of Registered Common Lodging Houses in the Parish of St. George's, Southwark, within the Jurisdiction of the London County Council. (c.H.) signifies Coffee House.
    Reg. No.Date when registered.Name.Street or Place.Authorized No. of LodgersDate of Approval.