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1891.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Area of St. Giles District 59
Vital Statistics 59
Marriages and Marriage-rate 60
Births and Birth-rate 62
Deaths and Death-rate 63
Deaths of Young Children 64
Senile Mortality 65
Zymotic Diseases:—
1. Small-pox 67
2. Scarlet Fever 68
3. Measles 69
4. Diphtheria 69
5. Whooping-cough 70
6. Diarrhoea 70
7. Fever 71
Other Zymotic Diseases—Influenza 71
Table (a) of Deaths, classified according to Diseases, Age*, and Localities 74
Table (b) of Population, Births, and of new Cases of Infectious Diseases 75
Inquests 76
The Mortuary 77
Uncertified Deaths 77
Deaths in Public Institutions (within the District):—
The Workhouse, Broad Street 77
The French Hospital, Shaftesbury Avenue 78
The British Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street 78
Deaths in Public Institutions (outside the District) 79
Removal to Isolation Hospitals 80
Model Buildings tenanted by the Working Classes:—
1.—Buildings belonging to the Peabody Trustees—
(a) The Great Wild Street Block 81
(b) The Little Coram Street Block 82
2.—Buildings belonging to the Incorporated Society for Improving the
Condition of the Working Classes 84
3.—Buildings belonging to the Central London Dwellings Improvement
Company—
(a) The Thurston and Holland Buildings, Newton Street 85
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 86
Meteorology 88