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CONTENTS.
I.—PUBLIC HEALTH.
PAGES.
General Report for the year 1898 5-35
Area and Population—Deaths, Gross and Net Mortality, Death RateUse
of Public Mortuary — Outlying Deaths in Persons removed
from St. James's—Cases of Infectious Disease and their Removal
- Births in St. James's—Epidemics—Visitation and Registration of
Tenement Houses.
Water Supplies—Examination of Samples - Cleansing of CisternsAmendment
of Regulations suggested—An Improved Air-tight Cistern.
Tubercular Disease—The Tuberculin Test on Cattle—Extermination
of Tuberculous Cattle—Maintenance of Resisting Power in the Community
— Sterilization of Milk and other Dairy Products by Heat—Cowhouses
and Slaughterhouses in St. James's.
Disinfection—Dustbins in Tenement Houses - Disinfection and
Cleansing of Apartments in Houses after Infectious Disease—Removal
and Disinfection of Bedding and Portable Articles by High-Pressure
Steam in Public Disinfector—Incineration of certain articles—Corrosive
Chemicals, their misapplication as Disinfectants to Closet and Sanitary
Appliances.
Ventilation-Currents of Air produced by Fires and by Mechanical
Force—Volume of Air carried out of House by each Fire-Counterpart
Supplies of incoming Air—Provision of General Inlet in Basement—
Apartments or Workshops best ventilated by Inlet over Doorway, conveying
clean, warm Air from Staircase into upper part of Apartment in
order to supply up draught of Chimney—Difference between Ventilation
and Draught—Detailed Provisions for the Ventilation of Workshops and
Apartments—Cause of Smoky Chimneys—Ventilation by Electric VaneVentilation
must be continuous—In-draughts must be so directed as not
to strike the Persons of Inmates.
Permanent Improvements- The Carlton Hotel—Outside or Inside
Soil-Pipes—Abrogation of the Bye-Law of London County Council as to
always placing Soil-Pipes outside in New Buildings—Discussion of the
Question—Difference of Treatment required as between large and complicated
Buildings and ordinary Dwelling Houses—Legal Proceedings—
The Water Seal of Closet Pans—The Sloping Arms of Soil-Pipes—The
Vertical Lines of Soil-Pipe—Objections to horizontal stretches of SoilPipe;
Obstruction; Imperfect Ventilation of Dead-ends; Perforations
in Upper Segment of Horizontal or Sloping Soil-Pipes—Corrosion by
Chemical Disinfectants—Destruction of Outside Soil-Pipes by Diurnal
Contraction and Expansion due to large ranges cf Temperature and
rigidly soldered Seams—Obstruction by Frost in loftv Buildings—Outside
Soil-Pipes in cold weather becoming Downcast Shafts for Soil-Pipe Air
—The Jointing of Lead Work—Desirability of welding together Lead
Work so as to eliminate solder, and thereby to get rid of the galvanic
corrosion arising from the contact of two dissimilar metals ; and to set
rid also of the deforming expansion and contraction caused by the hard
seams of solder.