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Water supply 70
Proceedings of the Council as to London water supply 72
Insufficiency of water supply 73
Constant water supply 73
River pollution 73
Disinfection 73
Provision and use of shelters 73
Hospital provision for infectious disease 74
Mortuaries 74
The London Equalization of Rates Act, 1894 75
Sanitary administration of districts 77
Medical officers of health and sanitary inspectors 77
Appendices—
I.—Memorandum by the medical officer of health on a local prevalence of diphtheria in Camberwell.
II.—Report on an outbreak of diphtheria in Lewisham.
III.—Observations of the medical officer of health on the report of the medical officer of the
London School Board on an outbreak of diphtheria in Lewisham.
IV.—Report as to the operation of by-laws dealing with houses let in lodgings in London.
V.—Report on shelters in the County of London.
VI.—Report on the sanitary condition of Eltham.
VII.—Report on the sanitary condition of Holborn.
LIST OF DIAGRAMS.
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Diagram I.—Marriages, 1851-96 5
II.—Births, 1851-96 5
„ III.—Deaths, 1841-96 7
„ IV.—Smallpox, 1841-96 14
„ V.—Measles, 1841-96 23
„ VI.—Scarlet fever, 1859-96 29
„ VII.—Scarlet fever; weekly notifications at certain age periods, 1896 31
„ VIII.—Scarlet fever; monthly notifications and case mortality, 1891-96 33
„ IX.—Scarlet fever; admissions to and deaths in hospitals of Metropolitan Asylums
Board, per cent. of total cases and deaths in London 29
„ X.—Diphtheria and croup, 1859-96 34
„ XI.—Diphtheria; weekly notifications at certain age periods, 1896 38
„ XII.—Diphtheria; monthly notifications and case mortality, 1891-96 40
„ XIII.—Diphtheria; admissions to and deaths in hospitals of Metropolitan Asylums
Board, per cent. of total cases and deaths in London 34
„ XIV.—Whooping cough, 1841-96 42
„ XV.—Typhus, 1869-96 42
„ XVI.—Enteric fever, 1869-96 44
„ XVII.—Enteric fever; weekly notifications, 1896, and mean weekly notifications, 1890-96 44
,, XVIII.—Diarrhoea in relation to mean temperature (summer quarter), 1841-96 44