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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Part I.— page
Population
Overcrowding, etc., in tenements of less than five rooms 5
Marriages 5
Births 11
Deaths 12
Rates of mortality in the several metropolitan boroughs 13
London mortality in 1902 compared with the mortality in the decennium 1891-1900 15
Short life-tables for two selected metropolitan districts 16
Infant mortality 21
Deaths from certain diseases and groups of diseases 22
Principal epidemic diseases 24
Smallpox and vaccination . 25
Administrative measures adopted for the limitation of the spread of smallpox 29
(a) The diagnosis of smallpox. 29
(b) Removal to hospital 29
(c) The supervision of persons exposed to infection 30
(d) Vaccination or re-vaccination of persons exposed to infection 31
(e.) Measures adopted for the prevention of smallpox in children 33
(f) Measures adopted for the prevention of the spread of smallpox in common lodging-houses 34
(g) General administrative measures 36
Social condition of persons attacked by smallpox . 38
Age and sex incidence of smallpox 39
Analysis of London cases of smallpox in respect of age and vaccination 40
Chicken-pox 4 2
M easles 46
Scarlet fever 48
Scarlet fever and elementary schools 50
Age and sex distribution 50
Diphtheria 51
Proportion of cases removed to hospital 55
Age and sex distribution 55
Whooping cough . 56
Typhus 57
Enteric fever
Age and sex distribution . 61
Diarrhoea 62
I^rysipelas. 63
Puerperal fever . 64
Influenza, bronchitis and pneumonia . 64
Phthisis 65
Cancer . 68
Bubonic plaguo . 70
Meteorology . 70
Part II.—
Dairies, cowsliedi! and milkshops 71
Offensive businesses 72
Removal of trade refuse 73
Complaints to the London County Council 74
Nuisances 74
Smoke nuisances 74
Nuisance from stable manure 74
Removal and disposal of house refuse . 75
Nuisance from sewers 75
The Regent s C anal . . 75
The River Lee 76
Housing of the Working Classes 76
Representations under Part I. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act. 76
Schemes undertaken by the County Council under Part I. of the Act 76
Schemes undertaken by the County Council under Part II. of the Act 77
Schemes undertaken by district authorities under Part II. of the Act, the County Council contributing
to the cost . 77
Proceedings of the County Council under Part III. of the Act . 78
Rehousing of persons displaced by street improvements 78
Displacement of persons of the working class 78
Proceedings in respect of houses represented under Part IT. of the Act as unfit for human
habitation 80
Houses let in lodgings 81
Common lodgmg-houses . 83
Seamen s lodgmg~housos 80
Customs and Inland Revenue Acts, 1890 and 1891 85
Underground rooms.. 85