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Rotherhithe 1897

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Rotherhithe]

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Appendix A
The Report of the Sanitary Inspector for the Northern District.
Report of the Sanitary Work, etc., during the year ending 31st December, 1897.
Houses and premises inspected - 1225
Re-inspections 2705
Infected houses inspected 257
Intimations served 994
Statutory notices served 186
Rooms cleansed and disinfected 161
Bedding destroyed 95
Bedding purified 47
Defective water fittings and inefficient supplies 203
Dirty and dilapidated rooms, passages and wash-houses 393
Insanitary and defective w.o. pans and traps 303
No through ventilation under floors 209
Defective stack pipes, guttering, flooring, window sashes, etc. 391
Defective yard and wash-house paving 522
Damp and defective house walls 139
No water to w.c. and urinals 60
Defective main, wash-house and w.c. roofs 162
Overcrowding 7
Sink waste and stack pipes directly connected with drain 111
Stables unpaved 2
Smoke nuisances abated 23
Insanitary and defective traps 178
Drains unstopped and cleansed 62
Accumulation of offensive matters 22
No receptacles for dung 8

Table: Deaths from all Causes During the Year.

Deaths from all Causes During the Year.

Causes of Death.Under 1 one year.One to Five.Five to Twenty.Twenty to Forty.Forty to Sixty.Sixty to Eighty.Eighty and Upward.Total.
Small Pox.....................-
Measles3151............19
Scarlet Fever4117............22
Typhus „.....................-
Enteric „.........2.........2
Eelapsing „.....................—
Eemittent„.....................—
Simple and Undefined Fever.....................—
Influenza.........2.........4
Whooping Cough86...............14
Diphtheria...611............17
Cholera (English).....................-
Diarrhœa3512...............49
Dysentery.....................—
Hydrophobia.....................—
Glanders.....................—
Cowpox and Vaccination.....................—
Syphilis, Congenital1..................1
Erysipelas.....................1
Pyæmia.....................-
Puerperal Fever.........1.........1
Other Zymotic Diseases.....................—
Malignant Pustule.....................-
Malassimilation11...............2
Alcoholism.....................-
Delirium Tremens............1......1
Eheumatic Fever.........31......4
Eheumatism.....................—
Gout (Eheumatic).........1.........—
Eickets1..................1
Cancer of Throat...............1...1
„ „ Stomach............12...3
„ „ Uterus............61...7
„ „ Eectum.........1.........1
„ „ Breast............1......1
„ Tongue............11...2
„ Liver.........145...10
„ „ Scrotum and Penis...............1...1
„ „ Intestines...............1...1
„ „ Bladder.....................-
„ „ Neck............11...2
„ „ Pancreas.....................—
„ „ Kidney.....................-
„ „ Testicle.....................—
„ „ Omentum...............1...1
„ „ Upper Jaw.....................-
„ „ Pylorus.....................—
Tabes Mesenterica343...............37
Tubercular Meningitis442...3......13