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Stl Pancras, London.
THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
Being the Report for the Year 1801.
TO THE VESTRY OF ST. PANCRAS.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present herewith the Thirty-sixth Annual
Report upon the vital and sanitary condition of St. Pancras.
I.—Introduction.
The delay in the issue of the report has arisen from the additional and
somewhat exceptional work thrown upon your Health Department due to
three causes, namely, the several changes that have taken place in the staff of
the Department, the variations in procedure, and the additional powers
and functions conferred by the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and the
hurried preparations to resist the threatened invasion of Cholera.
The principal points of interest in this Report may be briefly enumerated
as:—
Statistics of the epidemics of Influenza in the three consecutive years.
A brief summary of the outbreak of Enteric Fever at the Foundling
Hospital.
A short account of the origin and development of the representations
made under Part I. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, as to the
Insanitary Areas within the parish. In this connection it will be observed in
the statistics that the mortality of Somers Town, compared with other subdistricts,
as in previous years, stands highest.
Some accounts of the method of dealing with nuisances arising from
smoke, and also from sunken manure and ash-pits.
The powers and duties of your Vestry in reference to Workshops and
Factories.
The sampling of milk in transit is discussed in its various bearings.
Your attention is also again drawn to the necessity for a temporary
shelter for single-room families during disinfection.
The table of the meteorology of London during the four quarters and the
year 1891 set out below, is followed by the several sections of the Report,
enumerated in the contents.