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1870—71.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
Medical Officer of Health.
. Page.
General Mortality 2
Birth-rate in St. Giles District 2
Death-rate ditto 3
Ditto among Infants in St. Giles District 3
Ditto among Persons 60 years of age and upwards in St. Giles District 5
Ditto among persons at all ages in St. Giles District 5
Comparison of Mortality from all Causes in London and St. Giles District 6
Small Pox in London and St. Giles District 5
Vaccination and Re-vaccination 7
Ditto in St. Giles District 8
Number of Cases of Small Pox in each Quarter of the Year in St. Giles District 8
On certain Zymotic Diseases, viz.: Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, 9
and Diarrhoea, in St. Giles District 9
Deaths from Violence in ditto 9
Inquest Cases in ditto 9
Registered Mortality from Zymotic Diseases, Deaths by Violence, and Inquest Cases 10
in St. Giles District
Death-rate per 1,000 in sub-Districts of St. Giles 10
House Register of Deaths from Zymotic, Tuberculous, and Pulmonary Diseases
in St. Giles District 10
Rate of Mortality to Houses in St. Giles District 11
Sanitary characteristics of Chapel Place, &c., &c. 12
Comparative Prevalence, locally, of Zymotic and Pulmonary Diseases 13
Rate of Mortality in the Society's Lodging Houses 14
Certain defects in Sanitary Legislation 15
Lodging Houses 15
Lodging Houses Act,1851 16
Artizani and Labourers1 Dwellings Act, 1868 16
Water supply 16
Water closet system 17
Trough Closets 17
Mr. Corbies Case 17
Power of removal of Sick Persons to a Hospital 18
Notice to be given of Zymotic Diseases in Families and Schools 18
Removal of the Dead 18
Public Ambulances 18
District Hospital 19
Self-supporting Hospitals 20
Mortality in the WvrJchouse and other local institutions 20
Return of Deaths in Workhouse 20
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