View report page

( 64 )
40, "Pleurisy" 6,'"Asthma" 4, "Laryngitis" 1, other
" Lung diseases" 8; a total of 273, and equal to a rate of
5'8 per 1,000.
Tubercular Diseases.
There were 170 deaths, equal to a death-rate of 3'6 per
1,000; Phthisis or Consumption alone accounting for 149
deaths in this order. Only 16 of the deaths occurred under
20 years of age, the heaviest mortality being between 20
and 60 years.
Infantile Diseases.
Two hundred and sixty infants died under 1 year of age,
and 187 children between 1 and 5 years of age.
The principal diseases were "Atrophy and Debility" 67,
"Premature Birth" 28, "Tubercular Meningitis" or Water
on the Brain 26, "Teething" 13, and "Convulsions" 31.
The total deaths were 29 in excess of the preceding
year.
Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Act, 1868.
(Mr. McCULLOCH TOKRENS, M.P.)
Your Board being the Local Authority under the abovementioned
Act, I reported the following houses as being
dangerous to health, and unfit for human habitation, viz:—
Nos. 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, and
62 the Colonnade, in the parish of St. George, Bloomsbury.
A total of 14 houses, inhabited by 228 persons, 122 adults
and 106 children.
The adjacent houses on the same side of the Colonnade,
belonging to St. Pancras, have been similarly dealt with by
the Medical Officer of Health for that district.