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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Part I.— page
Population 5
Marriages 5
Of minors, per cent. of total marriages 6
Births 6
Rates per 1,000 persons living and legitimate births per 100 married females (aged 15-45) in
sanitary areas 7
Deaths 7
Crude and corrected rates in Military areas 8
Crude and corrected rates in sanitary areas calculated on Equalisation of Rates' populations 9
Deaths at the sever A age-periods in sanitary areas 10
London mortality in the year 1906 compared with the mortality in the decennium 1891-1900 10
Infant mortality 12
Deaths at all ages from certain diseases and groups of diseases 19
Rates from all causes and from specified causes in sanitary areas 20
Principal Epidemic Diseases 20
Smallpox and Vaccination 22
London vaccination returns 25
Number of children for whom certificates of conscientious objection together with the number of
children not finally accounted for per cent. of births 25
Measles 26
Mortality among children at ages 0-5 in sanitary areas 27
In relation to overcrowding 28
Deaths at the several age-periods in sanitary areas 28
Scarlet Fever 30
Scarlet fever and elementary schools 31
Age and sex distribution 32
Diphtheria 33
Comparative case-rates in sanitary areas 35
Diphtheria and elementary schools 35
Age and sex distribution 37
Whooping-cough 37
Typhus 39
Enteric Fever 40
Age and sex distribution 41
Diarrhoea 44
Erysipelas 45
Puerperal Fever 47
Influenza, Bronchitis and Pneumonia 48
Phthisis 48
Crude and corrected death-rates in sanitary areas 49
Deaths at the several age-periods in sanitary areas 49
In relation to overcrowding 50
Cancer 53
Crude and corrected death-rates in sanitary areas 54
Deaths from sarcoma, carcinoma, and cancer {otherwise undefined) at the several age-periods in
sanitary areas 54
In relation to overcrowding 56
Cerebro-spinal Fever 56
Anthrax 56
Meteorology 56
Part II.—
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops 57
Tuberculosis of the udder in cows 57
Offensive Businesses 59
Nuisances 61
Smoke nuisance 61
Nuisance from stable manure 62
Removal of house refuse 62
Removal of offensive matter 63
Nuisance from sewers 63
Nuisance from rivers and canals 63
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 63
Proceedings under Part I. of the Act 63
Proceedings under Part II. of the Act 64
Proceedings under Part III. of the Act 64
Provision for persons displaced by street improvements 64
Proceedings by district councils 64
Proceedings in respect of houses represented under Part II. of the Act as unfit for human habitation 65
Death-rates among persons resident in County Council buildings 65
Common Lodging Houses 66
Death-rates among inmates of common lodging-houses 67
Seamen's lodging-houses 68
Aliens Act, 1905 68
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