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City of Westminster 1903

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Introductory Remarks 1
PART I.
A. Vital Statistics.
Population 4
Births 6
Deaths—
Infants 9
Various Ages 10
Old Persons 10
Causes of—
Statistical Tables 18
B. Communicable Diseases.
Notifiable—
Smallpox 22
Vaccination 30
Scarlet Fever 31
Diphtheria 32
Bacteriological Diagnosis 32
Typhoid Fever 35
Non-notifiable 39
Diarrhoeal Diseases 9, 18
Measles 39
Whooping Cough 41
Schools and Infectious Disease 41
Disinfection 43
Shelters 44
Cleansing of Persons 44
PART II.
C. jHouse Inspection, fyc.
Inspection of Houses 45
Legal Proceedings 45
By-laws under Public Health Act 48, 49
Infringements 48
Proposed Amendments 48
Supervision of House Drainage 49
Underground Dwellings 50
Houses Let in Lodgings 51
Revenue Act 61
Housing of the Working Classes—
Regency Street Buildings 51
Standard of Occupation of Tenements
51
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Housing Act, 1903 57
Vital Statistics of Block Dwellings 59
Common Lodging Houses 58
D. Workshops, fyc.
Number on Register 62
Inspection of Workplaces .. 46, 47, 63
Use of Gas and Oil Stores 63
Temperature 63
Women's Workplaces 64
Outworkers 65
Causes of Death, and Occupations.. 65
E. Food Supply.
Bakehouses 68
List of Certified, &c. 68
Order as to Cubic Space 69
Restaurants 70
Proposed Legislation 70
Milk 75
Legal Powers sought 78
IceCreams 71
Aerated Water Manufactories 71
Slaughterhouses 72
Tripe Boilers 72
Food and Market Inspection 72
Prosecutions 73
Unsound Pies 74
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 74
The Adulteration of Milk 75
Tinned Peas—Circular on 78
Prosecutions 81
Water Supply 85
F. General,
Smoke Prevention 86
Prosecutions 87
Locomotives on Railways 88
,, Highways 89
Mortuaries 89
Gr. Special Report.
Distribution of Tubercular Disease
in the City during the years 1901,
1902, and 1903, with two Maps
showing Population and number
of Deaths from Consumption in
Census Enumeration Areas 90