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1883.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
CONTENTS.
Birth and Death-rate, &c., for Registration London 50
Area, Density, and Population of St. Giles District 52
Marriages and Marriage-rate in ditto 53
Births and Birth-rate in ditto 54
Deaths and Death-rate in ditto 55
Deaths of Parishioners in the Public Hospitals, &c. 57
Deaths among Infants and Young Children 57
Deaths among Persons above 00 years of age 57
Uncertified Deaths 58
The Workhouse, Broad Street 58
The Mortuary and Coroner's Court 58
Inquests 58
The British Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street 59
The Infants'Home, 35, Grea t Coram Street 60
The Bloomsbury Dispensary, Streatham Street 60
Zymotic Diseases—Small-Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping-
cough, Eever, Diarrhœa 60
Ambulances 62
Pulmonary Diseases 62
Tubercular Diseases 63
Infantile Diseases 63
Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Act. 1868. (Torrens.) The Colonnade 63
„ „ „ 1875. (Cross.) Shelton Street Area 64
„ „ „ „ Little Coram Street Area 64
„ „ „ „ Peabody Buildings, Great
Wild Street Area 65
Scarlet Fever outbreak in the District in 1881—Mr. Power's Report on 67
The Dwellings of the Poor 71
Sanitary Work : —
Inspector's Visits, Orders, and Legal Proceedings 74
Overcrowding 74
Underground Dwellings 75
Common Lodging Houses 75
Slaughter-houses 75
Cow-sheds 75
Bakehouses 76
Rag and Bone Shops 78
Provisions unfit for Human Food 78
Animals so kept as to be a Nuisance 79
APPENDIX.
Table I.— Estimated Population, 1883—number of Houses, Births, Deaths, and
Marriages 80
Table II.— Birth and Death-rate of Children, and Deaths in Public Institutions 81
Table III.— Deaths registered from all Causes, including Deaths of Parishioners
in Hospitals situated out of the District 82
Table IV.— Showing Mortality from Certain Classes of Disease 84
Table V.— Showing Deaths in the Ten Years from the Seven Principal Zymotic
Diseases 85
Table VI.— Report of the Sanitary Work 86
Table VII.— Disinfecting Chamber 87
Table VIII.— Food condemned 87
Table IX.— Registered Births and Deaths in 1883 88
Table X.— The Marriage, Birth, and Death-rate from 1858—1883 89
Table XI.— Return respecting Vaccination 90
Table XII.— List of Common Registered Lodging Houses 91+