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TABLE OF CONTENTS—Continued.
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Common lodging houses 65
Common lodging-house population and vagrancy 67
Vacant accommodation in common lodging-houses on night of 17th February, 1905 67
Death rates among inmates of common lodging-houses 69
Accommodation of aliens newly arriving in or passing through London 70
Seamen's lodging houses
Revenue Act, 1903 70
Underground rooms 71
Overcrowding 71
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 72
Table showing proceedings of London sanitary authorities under the Factory and Workshop Act 74
Inspection of food 76
Sale of ice cream 78
Disinfection 79
Shelters 79
Mortuaries 80
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 80
London water supply 84
Water supply to tenement houses 85
Report of the Inter-departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration 86
London Equalisation of Rates Act, 1894 86
Midwives Act, 1902 87
Medical Officers of Health of London sanitary areas 91
Appendices—
I.— Variations in the age incidence of certain of the principal epidemic diseases.
II.— Report of the Medical Officer (Education) for the year ended 31st March, 1906.
III.— Report on fried-fish shops, fish curers' and marine store dealers' premises.
IV.— Report on certain recommendations of the Inter-departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration.
LIST OF DIAGRAMS.
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Diagram I.— Marriages, 1851-1905 5
„ II.— Births, 1851-1905 5
„ III.— Deaths ("all causes")1841-1905 9
„ IV.— Infant mortality, 1858-1905 13
,, V.— Smallpox (deaths) 1841-1905 22
,, VI.— Measles (deaths) 1841-1905 27
,, VII.— Measles und Whooping cough (monthly deaths) 1891-1905 30
„ VIII.— Scarlet fever (deaths') 1859-1905 31
,, IX.— Scarlet fever (admissions to hospitals of Metropolitan Asylums Board, per cent. of
total notified cases in London) 1890-1905 31
,, X.— Scarlet fever (monthly notified cases and case-mortality) 1891-1905 32
„ XI.— Diphtheria and croup (deaths) 1859-1905 35
,, XII.— Diphtheria (admission to hospitals of Metropolitan Asylums Board per cent. of total
notified cases in London) 1890-1905 35
,, XIII.—Diphtheria (monthly notified cases and case-mortality) 1891-1905 36
,, XIV.—Whooping cough (deaths) 1841-1905 39
„ XV.—Typhus (deaths) 1869-1905 41
„ XVI.—Enteric fever (deaths) 1869-1905 42
,, XVII.—Enteric fever (weekly notified cases, 1905, and mean weekly notified cases, 1890-1905) 42
„ XVIII.—Enteric fever (monthly notified cases and case-mortality) 1891-1905 43
„ XIX.—Diarrhoea, dysentery and cholera (deaths) 1841-1905 44