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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PART I.
Vital Statistics.
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Population 5
Natural increase 5
Marriages 6
Of minors, per cent.of total marriages 7
Births 7
Rates per 1,000 persons living and legitimate births per 100 married females (aged 15-45) in
sanitary areas 9
Fertility of married women in relation to social condition 9
Notification of Births 10
Deaths 11
London mortality in the year 1909 compared with the mortality in the decennium 1891-1900 12
Deaths from certain diseases and groups of diseases (increased or diminished incidence 1909) 14
Crude and corrected rates in sanitary areas 15
Deaths at the several age-periods in sanitary areas 17
Death-rates at certain age-periods in relation to social conditon, 1905-9 17
Rates from all causes and from specified causes in sanitary areas 18
Infantile mortality 18
In sanitary areas 19
Deaths from stated causes 20
Life-table for the first 12 months of life in London 1909 23
Deaths in sanitary areas at months of age under one year 25
In relation to overcrowding 25
Principal Epidemic Diseases 27
Smallpox and Vaccination 29
London vaccination returns 31
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 31
Measles 32
Mortality among children at ages 0-5 in sanitary areas 33
In relation to overcrowding 34
Deaths at the several age-periods in sanitary areas 35
In schools 35
Scarlet Fever 36
Age and sex distribution 38
Scarlet fever and elementary schools 38
Source of infection 39
Diphtheria 40
Comparative case-rates in sanitary areas 42
Age and sex distribution 43
Diphtheria and elementary schools 43
Bacteriological diagnosis in 1909 44
Whooping-cough 45
In relation to overcrowding 47
In schools 47
Typhus 47
Enteric Fever 48
Age and sex distribution 49
Bateriological diagnosis in 1909 50
Diarrhoea 51
Erysipelas 52
Puerperal Fever 54
Influenza, Bronchitis and Pneumonia 55
Phthisis 55
Crude and corrected death-rates in sanitary areas 57
Deaths at the several age-periods in sanitary areas 57
In relation to overcrowding 58
Age incidence on males and females in relation to social condition 58
Notification 60
Bacteriological diagnosis in 1909 63
Cancer 64
Crude and corrected death-rates in sanitary areas 64
Deaths from sarcoma, carcinoma, and cancer (otherwise undefined) at the several age-periods in
sanitary areas 65
In relation to overcrowding 67
Cerebro-spinal Fever 67
Anthrax 68
Glanders 68
Meteorology 68
PART II.
Public Health Administration.
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milk shops 69
Tuberculosis of the udder in cows 70
Tuberculous milk supply in London 71