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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Part 1.— page
Population 1
Marriages 3
Births 3
Deaths 5
London mortality in the ten years 1891-1900, compared with the decennium 1881-90 7
Infant mortality 9
Deaths from several classes of disease 11
Principal zymotic diseases 12
Smallpox and vaccination 13
London vaccination returns 17
Measles 18
Scarlet fever 22
Proportion of cases and deaths in hospitals 24
Return cases 24
Age and sex distribution 24
Diphtheria 25
Diphtheria and elementary schools 28
Proportion of cases and deaths in hospitals 32
Return cases 32
Age and sex distribution 32
Whooping cough 33
Typhus 34
Enteric fever 35
Age and sex distribution 37
Diarrhoea 38
Cholera 39
Erysipelas 39
Puerperal fever 40
Influenza, bronchitis and pneumonia 41
Phthisis 41
Cancer 43
Plague 44
Notifiable diseases in the metropolitan boroughs during the ten years 1891-1900 46
Meteorology 47
Part II.—
Dairies, cowsheds and milkshops 48
Septic sore throat due to milk 49
Offensive businesses 49
Complaints to the London County Council 49
Nuisances 49
Smoke nuisances 49
Removal of offensive matter and stable manure 50
Removal of house refuse 51
Nuisance from sewers 53
Nuisance from the Regent's-canal 53
Nuisance from the river Lea 55
Housing of the working classes 55
Amendment of the Housing of the Working Classes Act 55
Administration of the Housing of the Working Classes Act 57
(1) Schemes undertaken by the Council under Part I. of the Act 57
(2) Schemes undertaken by the Council under Part II. of the Act, to the cost of which the
district authorities contributed 58
(3) Schemes undertaken by district authorities under Part II. of the Act to the cost of which the
Council contributed 58
(4) Proceedings under Part III. of the Act 58
Displacement of the working classes by private action 59
Proceedings in respect of houses represented as unfit for human habitation 61
Houses let in lodgings 62
Common lodging-houses 63
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts, 1890 and 1891 64
Underground rooms 65
Workmen's trains 65
Inspection of workshops 65
Bakehouses 65
Unwholesome food 65
Poisoning by arsenic 67
The regulation of milk and cream 67
Disinfection 68
Provision of shelter during disinfection 68
Infectious disease—Bacteriological examination 69
The Cleansing of Persons Act 69
Mortuaries 69