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City of London 1901

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]

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CONTENTS.
page.
Sanitary Staff 5
Area 9
Density 9
Rateable Value 9
Population 9
Census Returns 10
Births 11
Vaccination 12
Mortality 12
Deaths in City Institutions 13
„ from Violence 14
Vital Statistics 14
Meteorology and Death Rates 17
Notification of Infectious Disease 17
Shelter for Temporary Accommodation 19
Small-pox and Vaccination 20
Vaccination in City Ward and Parochial Schools 28
„ „ „ Board Schools 29
„ „ „ Artizans' Dwellings 29
Tuberculosis, or Consumption 30
„ Voluntary Notification of 32
„ Precautions for Prevention of 32
„ Relation between Human and Bovine 33
„ in Cattle—Local Government Board Recommendations 34
Artizans' Dwellings, Houndsditch 37
„ „ Vital Statistics 38
Disinfection 40
Mortuary Returns 40
Post-mortem Room 40
Disinfectants, Manufacture of 40
Sanitary Inspections 41
Insanitary Dwellings 43
House Refuse Removal 44
Tenement Houses 44
Factory and Workshop Act, 1891 46
Woman Sanitary Inspector 48
Factories and Workshops—Defects reported by Home Office 51
Workshops, Sanitary Conveniences in 53
Bakehouses 53
Disinfection of Public Roadways 55
Leadenhall Market 55
Summer Flushing of Courts, &c. 56
Limewhiting of Courts 58
Skips foe House Refuse 59
Railway Stations, Sanitary Conveniences at 59
Public W.C's and Underground Conveniences 61
Ice Cbeams 61
„ „ Regulations for Sale of 62
Milk and Infectious Disease 66
Dairies and Milk Shops Regulations 75
Food Inspection at Riverside Wharves78
Unsound Fruit, Vegetables, Tinned Food 79
Aldgate Slaughterhouses 80
Meat Supplies 81
„ „ Sources of Origin of 83
„ Inspection and Condemned Meat 86
Diseased Meat Prosecutions 89
Tuberculosis in Pigs 90
Unsound Frozen Rabbits 91
Fish Supplies 92
„ Seizures 93
Sale of Food and Drugs Acts 94
„ „ „ „ „ Prosecutions 96
Milk Regulations—Board of Agriculture Rules 99
Cheese Poisoning (Tyrotoxismub)101
APPENDICES.
Appendix A—Street Lists of Mortality.
„ B— „ „ „ Infectious Disease.
„ C—Tenement Houses.
Spot Map of the City showing Infectious Diseases.