View report page

Of the notifiable Infectious Diseases, 133 cases came
under notice during the year 1900. Of these 133 cases, 64
were of Scarlet Fever; 39 were of Diphtheria; 16 were
of Erysipelas; and 14 were of Enteric Fever. Of the
133 cases, 100 were removed to Extra-Parochial Hospitals;
33 of the cases were not removed. Details of these 133
cases are appended in Table II (pages 36 to 45).
Tables of the causes of death and other data for the
year 1900 are appended.
The births registered in St. James's during the year
1900 were 410. Of these 410 births, 25 occurred in the
Union House.
During the year 1900, 190 houses in the poorer quarters
of St. James's have been visited and inspected—mostly
apart from any direct complaint against these particular
houses. In no case has admission been refused. Tenement
houses about which any difficulty occurs as to their
sanitary condition are registered so as to be kept under
efficient control.
Few or none of the tenement houses in St. James's fall
below £100 a year in annual value. In the south-western
part of St. James's the lodging-houses are private hotels
or houses altogether different in character to those
contemplated in the Bye-laws for the registration of
"Houses let in Lodgings, or occupied by Members of more
than one family."
I have had to condemn 1,115 tins of food, also a large
quantity of bacon, as putrid and unfit for sale as human