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1883.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
CONTENTS. PAGJt
Birth and Dcatli-rate, &c., for London 13
Area, Density, and Population of St. Giles District 45
Marriages and Marriage-rate in ditto .46
Births and Birth-rate in ditto 47
Deaths and Death-rate in ditto 48
Deaths of Parishioners in Public Institutions out of the District 50
Death-rate among Infants and Young Children 50
Death-rate among Old People 51.
The Workhouse Deaths 51
Uncertified Deat 51
Inquests 51
The New Mortuary and Coroner's Court 52
Pules and Regulations of the Mortuary, &c. 53
Forms for depositing Dead Bodies in ditto 56
Duties of the Keeper of the Mortuary 57
The British Lying-in Hospital 58
The Infants' Home 59
The Bloomsbury Dispensary 59
Mortality from Certain Classes of Diseases :—
I.—The Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases—Small-Pox. Measles. Scarlet
Fever, Diphtheria. Whooping Cough, Fever. Darrheca 60
The Other Zymotic Disease .64
II.—Pulmonary Diseases (excluding Phthisis) 65
III.—Tubercular Diseases (Phthisis, &c.) 65
IV.—The Wasting Diseases of Infant 66
V.—The Convulsive Diseases of Infants .66
VI.—Deaths from Violence 66
Small-Pox and Fever Hospitals Commission 67
S anitary Work : —
Legal Proceedings 68
Animals so kept as to be a nuisancc 68
Overcrowding 68
Slaughter-houses 69
Cow-houses 69
Common Lodging Houses 70
Meat, Fish, &c., Unfit for Human Food 70
Underground Dwellings 70
liag and Bone Shops 71
APPENDIX. Table I.—Estimated Population, 1882—number of Houses, Births, Deaths, and
Marriages 72
Table II.—Birth and Death-rate of Children, and Deaths in Public Institutions 73
Table III.—Deaths registered from all Causes in 1882 74
Table IV.—Showing Mortality from Certain Classes of Disease 76
Table V.—Showing Deaths in the Ten Years from the Seven Principal Zymotic
Diseases 77
Table VI.—Report of the Sanitary Work 78
Table VII.—Disinfecting Chamber 79
Table VIII.—Food Condemned 79
Table IX.—Registered Births and Deaths in 1882 80
Tabic X.—The Marriage, Birth, and Death-rate in St. Giles, from 1858—1882 81
Table XI.—Return respecting Vaccination 82
Tabic XII.—List of Common Registered Lodging Houses 83