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1873—4.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL
OFFICER OF HEALTH.
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The Registered Birth-rate and Death-rate of the Metropolis 20
The Temperature during the year 21
The Birth-rate in St. Giles District 21
The Death-rate in St Giles District 22
Comparison of the Death-rate in St. Giles for ten several years 23
Important influence of Servants and Assistants in shops &c. on the Death-rate . 24
The Death-rate among Infants in St. Giles District 24
The Death-rate among Persons 60 years of age and upwards 24
The Death-rate among Persons at all ages 25
The Mortality in Sub-Districts from the more important Diseases 25
The Death-rate among the Zymotic Diseases 25
Small Pox 26
Measles 26
Scarlet Fever and Whooping Cough 26
Diarrhœa 26
Typhus Fever—its causes—our Sanitary Resources 27
Tables of Mortality, Sex, Age &c 27
Inquest Cases 28
Non-Certified Cases 28
The Mortality in the Workhouse and other Local Institutions 28
The Bloomsbury Dispensary; the British Lying-in Hospital 29
The Infant's Home 29
The Sanitary Work of the year 30
Slaughter-houses, and the necessity of their abolition 31
Bakehouses 31
Bad Food 31
Underground Rooms 32
APPENDIX.
Table of Registered Deaths . 33
Table of Registered Births 33
Table showing the Mortality in each Quarter, and in each Sub-District. 34
Table showing the Causes of Death in St. Giles District with the Ages at Death 35
TO THE BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE ST. GILES DISTRICT.
Gentlemen,—
1. I have the honour to present to you my Report on the
Sanitary State of the District for the year 1873. As in former years,
I introduce an analysis of the facts, with a brief citation of the rates
of mortality, &c., for the whole Metropolis, to afford a standard for
comparison. The Registered Births in the Metropolis for the year
1873 numbered 121,100, giving a rate of 35.55 per 1000 of persons
living. The Registered Deaths were 76,634, yielding a rate of
22.45.
2. The Death-rate for London was rather in excess of the year
1872, viz. 21.3, but less than the average of the previous ten years,
viz. 24.3. We must therefore regard 1873, as, on the whole, a
healthy year. The last quarter, however, evidenced a decided
increase of mortality, the Death-rate having sprung to 25.3, thus
contrasting unfavourably with the rate for the last quarter of 1872,
which was only 19.8.