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Unsound food 76
Poisoning by arsenic 77
Disinfection 77
Shelters 78
Bacteriological examination 78
The cleansing of persons 79
Mortuaries 79
Water supply 80
The London Equalization of Rates Act, 1894 80
Sanitary officers 81
Medical officers of health of metropolitan boroughs in 1901 83
Appendices—
I.—London Life Table.
II.—Report as to certain recent local prevalences of scarlet fever in London.
III.—Experiments on disinfection. .
IV.—Report on the sanitary staffs of the metropolitan boroughs.
LIST OF DIAGRAMS.
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Diagram I.—Marriages, 1851-1901 7
II.—Births, 1851-1901 7
III.—Deaths, 1841-1901 9
IV.—Smallpox, 1841-1901 ]7
V.—Measles, 1841-1901 24
„ VI.—Scarlet fever,. 1859-1901 28
„ VII.—Scarlet fever.; admissions to and deaths in hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, per cent, of the total cases and deaths in London 28
„ VIII.—Scarlet fever; monthly notifications and case mortality, 1891-1901 29
„ IX.—Diphtheria and croup, 1859-1901 33
,, X.—Diphtheria; admissions to and deaths in hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board, per cent, of the total cases and deaths in London 33
,, XI.—Diphtheria ; monthly notifications and case mortality, 1891-1901 34
„ XII.—Whooping cough, 1841-1901 37
XIII.—Typhus, 1869-1901 38
„ XIV.—Enteric fever, 1869-1901 39
„ XV.—Diarrhoea in relation to mean temperature (summer quarter), 1841-1901 39
„ XVI.—Enteric fever ; monthly notifications and case mortality, 1891-1901 40
„ XVII.—Enteric fever; weekly notifications, 1901, and mean weekly notifications,
1890-1901 41
Chart B.—Smallpox; death rates for a series of years in London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna and
St. Petersburg 18