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and 13.05 respectively). Respiratory deaths were four (3.48),
tubercular three (2.6), measles one (0.87), and infantile deaths two
(57 per 1,000 births).
London County Council Buildings, Millbank.— Four of this group
of dwellings were open during the whole of the year 1901, with a
population of 836 ; there were seven deaths (8.3 per 1,000) in all, one
each from respiratory and tubercular disease (1.2 per 1,000), and two
from diarrhoea (2.38 per 1,000). The number of births during the
year is not available.
Common Lodging-Houses.
There are 16 common lodging-houses in the City, accommodating
1,825 men : three for women, with accommodation for 133 ; and one
for women and married couples, accommodating 86 persons. Nine of
these are in St. John's Ward, and six in the Strand, and their
influence adds to the highness of the death-rates of these Wards;
the others are distributed among Covent Garden, 2 ; St. Anne, 1;
St. Margaret, 1; and Regent. 1. There were 37 deaths of men
and four of women of consumption; assuming that the lodgers
were regular users of these houses, the rate would be three times
that for males, and twice that for females. A considerable portion
of the lodgers in some houses have lived in them continually for
many years.
There is room for much impiovement in most of the houses
devoted to this purpose.
The improvement in progress in the Strand Ward will remove
all the six lodging-houses (accommodating 362 men and 115 women)
now situated in it, but the London County Council have plans ready
for a new one, to be erected at the corner of Kemble Street and
Drury Lane, for 673 men.
Workshops.
During 1901, Parliament was engaged in amending and codifying
the numerous Acts dealing with factories and workshops. The
Public Health Committee made certain suggestions (Council Minutes,
pp. 538 and 539), and eventually clauses embodying these requirements
were added to the Bill. These were that a higher amount of
cubic space per head should be required in the case of a room which
is used both as a workroom and as a living or sleeping room, where
the workers are not members of the same family (Section 3 (3) of the
Act), and that London sanitary authorities should have the same
right of entry as is possessed by factory inspectors (Sections 125
and 119).
The Act was passed on the 17th August, and came into force on
1st January, 1902, with the exception of Section 101 (1), relating to