Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington]
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iv CONTENTS.
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Coroner's Court, Proposed 121
Disinfection of Houses, Bedding, Clothing, &c., after Infectious
Diseases 122
Water Supply 122
„ Summary of Professor Frankland's Report on the 123
„ „ Colonel Bolton's „ 126
„ The Companies and the Government: "The Agreements " 128
Gas, Result of Tests for ascertaining the Illuminating Power and Purity
of the 129
„ Supply of, for Street Lighting 130
Conclusion 131
APPENDIX.
STATISTICAL AND OTHER TABLES.
Table 1.—Estimated Population in 1880 and ten previous years
1870-79 : Number of Inhabited House: Gross numbers
of Births, Deaths, and Marriages 134
„ 2.—Birth and Death Rates : Deaths of Children, and Deaths in
Public Institutions, 1880 and 1870-79 135
„ 3.—Deaths Registered from all Causes in 1880 136
„ 4.—Deaths from Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases: Pulmonary
Diseases, Tubercular Diseases; Wasting Diseases of
Infants, Convulsive Diseases of Infants (Gross numbers);
Proportions of to 1000 deaths and to 1000
population 137
„ 5.—Deaths in 1880 and 1870-79 from the Seven Principal
Zymotic Diseases; Parish; Metropolis, England and
Wales. 138
„ 6&6a.—Sanitary Work, Summaries of . 139-40
„ 7 & 8.—Comparative Analysis of Mortality in London and
Kensington from certain classes of diseases; Death rates
and percentages of deaths, at ages; from Violence
and in Public Institutions, &c., &c. 141-2
„ 9.—Localities where fatal cases of the most important of the
Zymotic Diseases occurred in 1880 143-4
„ 10.—Vaccination Officer's Annual Return 145
„ 11.—Slaughterhouses, Localities of, and Names of Licensees 146
„ 12.—Cowsheds „ „ „ 147