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Hospital provision for infectious disease 75
The Cleansing of Persons Act 75
Mortuaries 76
Water supply 77
Proceedings of the Council 78
Royal Commission on London water supply 79
Welsh scheme of water supply 79
Legislation 80
Insufficiency of water supply 80
Constant supply 80
Flooding from the Lea 80
Infant Life Protection Act, 1897 81
The London Equalization of Rates Act, 1894 81
Sanitary administration of districts 82
Medical officers of health and sanitary inspectors 83
Appendices-
I.-Report on diphtheria and elementary schools.
II.-Report on the operation of by-laws dealing with houses let in lodgings in the several London
sanitary districts.
III.-Report on the accommodation for women and children in common lodging-houses and shelters in
London.
IV.-Report on the sanitary condition of Clerkenwell.
V.-Report on the sanitary condition of St. Luke.
LIST OF DIAGRAMS.
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Diagram I.-Marriages, 1851-97 5
„ II.-Births, 1851-97 5
„ III-Deaths, 1841-97 7
„ IV.-Smallpox, 1841-97 18
„ V.-Measles, 1841-97 23
„ VI.-Scarlet fever, 1859-97 27
„ VII:-Scarlet fever; weekly notifications at certain age periods, 1897 30
„ VIII.-Scarlet fever; admissions to and deaths in hospitals of Metropolitan Asylums
Board, per cent. of total cases and deaths in London 27
„ IX.-Scarlet fever; monthly notifications and case mortality, 1891-97 32
„ X.-Diphtheria and croup, 1859-97 33
„ XI.-Diphtheria; weekly notifications at certain age periods, 1897 36
„ XII.-Diphtheria; admissions to and deaths in hospitals of Metropolitan Asylums
Board, per cent. of total cases and deaths in London 33
„ XIII.-Diphtheria; monthly notifications and case mortality, 1891-97 38
„ XIV.-Whooping cough, 1841-97 89
„ XV.-Typhus, 1869-97 40
„ XVI.-Enteric fever, 1869-97 41
„ XVII.-Enteric fever; weekly notifications, 1897, and mean weekly notifications, 1890-97 42
„ XVIII.-Diarrhoea in relation to mean temperature (summer quarter), 1841-97 41
„ XIX.-Phthisis and overcrowding 49