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TABLE OF CONTENTS—continued.
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Houses let in Lodgings 69
Water supply to tenement houses 71
Houses infested with Vermin 71
Revenue Act, 1903 71
Underground Rooms 72
Overcrowding 72
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 73
Table showing proceedings of sanitary authorities under the Factory and Workshop Act 74
Inspection of Food 76
Sale of Ice cream 79
Disinfection 80
Shelters 80
Mortuaries 81
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 81
Water Supply 81
London Equalisation of Rates Act, 1894 82
Midwives Act, 1902 83
Sanitary Inspectors 89
Medical Inspection of School Children 90
Medical Officers of Health of London Sanitary Areas 91
Appendices—
I.—Tabular statement showing, number of tenements, rents, etc., in block dwellings in the several
sanitary areas of London.
II.—Report of the Medical Officer (Education) for the year ended 31st March, 1907.
III.—Report on water supply to tenement houses.
IV.—Extracts from a report to the Public Health Committee on Food Inspection.
V.—Report on Inspection of Food by Riparian Sanitary Authorities.
VI.—Report on the sanitary staffs of the metropolitan sanitary authorities.
LIST OF DIAGRAMS.
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Diagram I.—Marriages, 1851-1906 6
„ II.—Births, 1851-1906 6
,, III.—Deaths (all causes) 1841-1906 7
,, IV.—Infant Mortality, 1858-1906 12
„ V.—Smallpox (mortality) 1841-1906 22
„ VI.—Measles (mortality) 1841-1906 26
,, VII.—Measles and Whooping-cough (monthly deaths) 1891-1906 26
„ VIII.—Scarlet Fever (mortality) 1859-1906 30
,, IX.—Scarlet Fever (admissions to hospitals of Metropolitan Asylums Board, per cent. of
total notified cases in London) 1890-1906 30
,, X.—Scarlet Fever (monthly notified cases and case-mortality) 1891-1906 31
„ XI.—Diphtheria and Croup {mortality) 1859-1906 33
,, XII.—Diphtheria (admission to hospitals of Metropolitan Asylums Board, per cent. of total
notified cases in London) 1890-1906 33
,, XIII.—Diphtheria (monthly notified cases and case-mortality) 1891-1906 34
,, XIV.—Whooping-cough (mortality) 1841-1906 38
„ XV.—Typhus (mortality) 1869-1906 39
„ XVI.—Enteric Fever (mortality) 1869-1906 40
,, XVII.—Enteric Fever (weekly notified cases, 1906, and mean weekly notified cases, 1890-1906) 40
„ XVIII.—Enteric Fever (monthly notified cases and case-mortality) 1891-1906 40
,, XIX.—Diarrhoea, Dysentery and Cholera (mortality) 1841-1906 44
,, XX.—Phthisis (mortality—males and females) 1851-1906 48