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TABLE OP CONTENTS—continued.
Common Lodging-houses 66
Death-rate of inmates of common lodging-houses 67
Homeless persons 67
Seamen's lodging-houses 67
Houses let in Lodgings 68
Water supply to tenement houses 70
Houses infested with Vermin 70
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
Places where Food is Prepared for Sale 77
Sale of Ice Cream 77
Inspection of Food 78
Disinfection 79
Shelters /9
Mortuaries 80
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 80
London Equalisation of Rates Act, 1894 83
Midwives Act, 1902 84
Notification of Births Act, 1907 93
Legislation, 1908 94
Water Supply 94
Sanitary Inspectors and Health Visitors 95
Education (Administrative Provisions) Act, 1907 95
School attendance of children below the age of 5 years 96
Medical Officers of Health of London Sanitary Areas 97
A ppendice8—
I.—Report on the prevalence of Enteric Fever in Shoreditch and Bethnal Green in 1908.
II.—Report on Cerebro-spinal Fever.
III.—Report on Nuisance from Flies.
IV.—Report on Homeless Persons in London.
V.—Report of the Medical Officer (Education) for 21 months ended 31st December, 1908.
LIST OF DIAGRAMS.
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Diagram I.—Marriages, 1851-1908. 6
„ II.—Births, 1851-1908 6
„ III.—Deaths (all causes) 1841-1908 8
,, IV.—Infantile Mortality, 1858-1908 . 14
,, V.—Infantile Mortality (weekly deaths, all causes. diarrhoea and respiratory diseases, in
relation to weekly temperature), 1889-1908 16
,, VI.—Smallpox {mortality) 1841-1908 22
,, VII.—Measles (mortality) 1841-1908 24
,, VIII.—Measles and Whooping-cough (monthly deaths) 1891-1908 25
,, IX.—Scarlet Fever (mortality) 1859-1908 28
,, X.—Scarlet Fever (admissions to hospitals of Metropolitan Asylums Board, per cent, of
total notified cases in London) 1890-1908 28
,, XI.—Scarlet Fever (monthly notified cases and case-mortalitxy) 1891-1908 29
„ XII.—Diphtheria and Croup (mortality) 1859-1908 32
,, XIII.—Diphtheria (admissions to hospitals of Metropolitan Asylums Board, per cent, of total
notified cases in London) 1890-1908 32
,, XIV.—Diphtheria (monthly notified cases and case-mortality) 1891-1908 33
,, XV.—Whooping-cough (mortality) 1837
,, XVI.—Typhus (mortality) 1869-190839
,, XVII.—Enteric Fever (mortality) 1869-1908 40
,, XVIII.—Enteric Fever (weekly notified cases, 1908, and mean weekly notified cases, 1890-1908) 40
„ XIX.—Enteric Fever (monthly notified cases and case-mortality) 1891-1908 41
,, XX.—Diarrhoea, Dysentery and Cholera (mortality) 1841-1908 44
,, XXI.—Phthisis (mortality—males and females) 1851-1908 48