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For the whole Borough the attack-rates per 1,000 population were as follows: —
7.5 for scarlet fever, 1.8 for diphtheria, 0.3 for enteric fever, and 1.1 for erysipelas.
To summarise, the foregoing figures indicate that, taking the artizans' dwellings
as a whole during 1907, the mortality from all causes was markedly lower than that
of the Borough. The death-rate in the class A dwellings was very low. That of
the class B dwellings was distinctly higher than that of the Borough. The infantile
mortality was markedly lower than that of the Borough, taking the dwellings as a
whole, but whilst in class A it only amounted to 99 per 1,000 births, in class B
it was 207, a very notable difference. The incidence of attacks of notifiable infectious
disease was somewhat below the average for the Borough, taking the whole of the
dwellings, but it will be noticed that, whilst the attack-rate is a little above the
average for the class A dwellings, it is markedly below it for the class B dwellings.
HOUSES LET IN LODGINGS.
The following houses were registered during the year under the by-laws as to
houses let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family: —
Britannia Street. Nos. 97, 98, 99, and 100.
New Norfolk Street, Nos. 25, 26, 27, 28, and 29.
Hackney Road, Nos. 219 and 221.
The number placed upon the register during the year was 11, making a total
of 314 since the by-laws came into operation. The actual number on the register,
after making deductions for duplication consequent upon change of ownership, was
at the end of the year 272. The houses on the register were under observation
dusing the year, and some 419 visits were made in connection with them.
CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE ACTS.
Applications for certificates under the above Acts as to the sanitary fitness of
dwellings for the purpose of obtaining exemption from payment of inhabited house
duty were received in respect of the following:—Nos. 15, 16, and 17, Napier Street,
each containing three tenements. Certificates were given after some necessary work
had been executed in connection with the yard paving of the houses.
SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.
The number of licensed slaughter-houses in the Borough at the end of the year
was 8, as compared with 9 in 1906 and 12 in 1905. They are situate at the addresses
as set out below:—
Broadway, London Fields, No. 7.
Hackney Road, No. 135.
Haggerston Road, No. 4.
Haggerston Road, No. 76.
Hoxton Street, No. 184.
New North Road, No. 179.
Shepherdess Walk, No. 92.
Whitmore Road, No. 1,