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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Introductory Remarks 1
PART I.
A. Statistics.
Population 7
Births 10
Report of Health Visitors 11
Deaths 17
Infantile Mortality 18
Deaths in Block Dwellings 23
Deaths in Common Lodging-Houses 23
Tables 25-35
B. Communicable Diseases.
(1) Compulsorilv Notifiable—
Smallpox 36
Vaccination 36
Statistical Tables 36-41
Scarlet Fever 41
Diphtheria 43
Typhoid Fever 45
Puerperal Fever 46
Cerebro-spinal meningitis 46
Cholera 46
Glanders 46
(2) Voluntarily Notifiable Diseases—
Tuberculosis 49
(3) Non-notifiable Diseases—
Measles 56
Whooping Cough 57
Diarrhceal Diseases 58
Influenza 59
Schools and Infectious Disease 59
Medical Inspection of School Children 60
Bacteriological Laboratory 63
Disinfection 63
Cleansing of Persons 64
Mortuaries 66
Removal of Human Remains 67
PART II.
C. House Inspection, &c.
Defects Remedied 68
Legal Proceedings 69
Removal of House Refuse 71
Removal of Offensive Refuse 72
Drainage, &c., Plans 72
Drain Testing 72
Offensive Smells from Sewer Ventilators
73
Interceptors on House Drains 73
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Water Supply 74
Houses Let in Lodgings 74
Revenue Act 75
Smoke Prevention—Special Report.. 75
D. Workshops.
Number on Register 81
Defects 82
Ventilation—Gas Stoves 83
Outworkers 85
Infectious Disease 88
Home Workers—Special Report 88
Florists 91
Railway Waiting Rooms 91
Women Clerks 91
E. Food Supply.
Food and Market Inspection 92
Restaurants, &c. 92
Maps showing Distribution in City 94-5
New Requirements 94
Certification of Food for Export 95
Bakehouses 95
Bakehouses in Hotels—Legal Decision 96
Slaughter-house 97
Cow-sheds 97
Milk shops 98
Tuberculous Milk 99
Ice Cream Premises 100
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts—
Samples Taken, Result of Analysis
and Proceedings 100
Milk 101
Cream 102
Appeal re Boric Acid 102
B utter and Margarine 103
Cream Cheese 103
Sausages and Meat Pies 103
Circular re Preservatives 103-4
Prosecution 106-7
Chocolate 107
Preserved Fruits 108
Cider 108
Drugs (Saffron, Oxymel of Squills,
Quinine Wine, Fluid Magnesia) 108
Details of Prosecutions 109-16
Appendix.
Report on the Sanitary condition of
St. John's Ward 117-38
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