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1879.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER
OF HEALTH.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Birth and Death-rates, &c., &c., for London 28
Area, Density, and Population in St. Giles District 30
Marriages and Marriage-rate in 30
Births and Birth-rate in ditto 81
Deaths and Death-rate in ditto 32
Table of Deaths in Public Institutions in ditto 32
Table of Deaths of Parishioners in Institutions out of the District 33
Deaths of Infants 33
Deaths of Young Children 34
Deaths of Old People 34
The Workhouse, Broad Street 34
The British Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street 34
The Infants' Home, Great Coram Street 35
The Bloomsbury Dispensary, Great Russell Street 35
Deaths, special Causes of 35
Zymotic Diseases 35
Small-Pox, Vaccination Returns 36, 37
Measles, .Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping- Cough 38
Fever (Typhus), Outbreak of. in Great Wild Street area 88
Circular Letter sent by Board to Authorities of Public Hospitals respecting Admission of Cases of
Infectious Diseases 41
Fever (Typhoid). Metria, Diarrhoea 41
Regulations for Disinfecting Houses,&c., &c. 42
Constitutional Diseases, Scrofula, Phthisis, &c., 43
Local Diseases, Nervous System, Circulation 44
Respiratory and Digestive Organs 44
Developmental Diseases 45
Violent Deaths 45
Inquests 4(3
Deaths not Certified 47
Sanitary Work 47
I egal Proceedings under the Sanitary Acts 47
Overcrowding 47
Underground Dwellings 47
Nuisances from Animals (Cats) 47
Slaughter Houses 47
Cow Sheds 48
APPENDIX.
Table I.— Estimated Population 1879, Number of Houses, Births, Deaths and Marriages 49
Table II.— Birth and Death-rate, Deaths of Children and Deaths in Public Institutions 50
Table III.— Deaths Registered from all Causes during 1879 51
T«ible IV.— Showing Mortality from Certain (Masses of Disease, Ac. 53
Table V.— Showing Deaths in the Ten Years from the seven principal Zymotic Diseases 54
Table VI. — Report of the Sanit ry Work 55
Table VII.— Disinfectine Chamber, and Provisions Condmned 56
Table VUl.— Registered Births and Deaths in 1879 57
Table IX -The Marriage, Birth and Death-rates per 1,000, in St. Giles District and Sub-Districts from
1858 to 58