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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PAKT I.
Vital Statistics.
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P opulation 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 7
London mortality in the year 1908 compared with the mortality in the decennium 1891-1900 9
Deaths from certain diseases and groups of diseases (increased or diminished incidence 1908) 10
Crude and corrected rates in sanitary areas 11
Deaths at the several age-periods in sanitary areas 13
Rates from all causes and from specified causes in sanitary areas 13
Infa 14
Deaths from stated causes 15
Life-table for the first 12 months of life in London 1908 17
In relation to overcrowding 18
Principal Epidemic Diseases 20
Smallpox and Vaccination 21
London vaccination returns 23
Number of children for whom certificates of conscientious objection were obtained together with
the number of children not finally accounted for per cent, of births 23
Measles 24
Mortality among children at ages 0-5 in sanitary areas 25
In relation to overcrowding 26
Deaths at the several age-periods in sanitary areas 27
Scarlet Fever 28
Age and sex distribution 30
Scarlet fever and elementary schools 31
Diphtheria 32
Comparative case-rates in sanitary areas 34
Age and sex distribution 34
Diphtheria and elementary schools 35
Whooping-cough 37
In relation to overcrowding 39
Typhus 39
Enteric Fever 40
Age and sex distribution 43
Diarrhoea 43
Erysipelas 45
Puerperal Fever 46
Influenza, Bronchitis and Pneumonia 47
Ihthisis 48
Crude and corrected death-rates in sanitary areas 48
Deaths at the several age-periods in sanitary areas 49
In relation to overcrowding 50
Voluntary notification 50
Cancer 52
Crude and corrected death-rates in sanitary area 52
Deaths from sarcoma, carcinoma, and cancer (otherwise undefined) at the several age-periods in
sanitary areas 53
In relation to overcrowding 55
Cerebro-spinal Fever 55
Anthrax 56
Glanders 56
Meteorology 56
PART II
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Public Health Administration.
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops 57
Tuberculosis of the udder in cows 58
Tuberculous milk supply in London 59
Offensive Businesses 61
Nuisances 62
Smoke nuisance 62
Nuisance from stable manure 63
Removal of house 63
Nuisance from flies 64
Other nuisances 64
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 64
Proceedings under Part I of the Act 64
Proceedings under Part II of the Act 64
Proceedings under Part III of the Act 64
Death-rates among persons resident in the County CounciVs dwellings 65
Proceedings in respect of houses represented under Part II. of the Act as unfit for human habitation 65