Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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Isolation of Infectious Disorders 97
Cases of Infectious Disease admitted into the Asylums Board Hospitals during
1889 99
Ambulance Service, Asylums Board 99
The Infectious Diseases (Notification) Act, 1889 101
Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Acts, 1868 to 1882 106
Sanitary Work :—
Inspections and Orders 107
Legal Proceedings 107
Overcrowding 107
Underground Dwellings 107
Disinfectants 107
List of Articles Disinfected in Hot Air Chamber 108
Slaughter-houses 109
Cow-sheds 109
Bakehouses 110
Regulations as to Lodging-houses San. Act, 1866 1ll
Common Lodging-houses 1ll
Unwholesome Pood 112
Animals improperly kept 113
APPENDIX.
Table I.— Estimated Population, 1889, number of Houses, Births, Deaths,
Marriages, &c. 114
Table II.—Birth and Death-rates of Population, and of Children, and Deaths
in Public Institutions. 115
Table III.—Deaths registered from all causes in 1889 : Summary of Ditto 116
Table IV.—Showing Mortality of Certain Groups of Diseases 121
Table V.—Showing Deaths in the Ten Years from the Seven Principal Zymotic
Diseases 122
Table VI.—Report of the Sanitary Work 123
Table VII.—Registered Births and Deaths in 1889 124
Table VIII.—The Marriage, Birth and Death-rates, 1871 to 1889 125