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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Other Miasmatic Diseases :—
Influenza 94
II.— Constitutional Diseases 94
III.—Diseases of Respiratory System 94
IV.—Deaths from Violence 95
Inquests 95
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 96
Common Lodging-houses 97
Sanitary Congress 98
Meteorology of London 101
Sanitary Work :—
Public Health (London) Act, 1891 102
Inspection of District 102
Animals kept so as to be a nuisance 102
Overcrowding 102
Factories, Workshops and Workplaces 102
Proceedings at Police Court 102
Cow-bouse 103
Slaughter-houses 103
Bakehouses 104
Conference for Regulating Bakehouses 105
Unsound Food . 106
Notifications of Infectious Diseases 106
Weekly Charts of the Number of Cases of Small-pox, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria
and Enteric Fever notified during 1895.
Disinfection of Infected Premises 107
Disinfection of Clothing, &c. 107
Disinfectants 108
Public Mortuary 108
Post-mortem Room 109
Place for holding Inquests 109
Bye-laws as to Houses let in Lodgings 109
Underground Rooms 110
APPENDIX.
Table I.—Population, 1894, number of Houses, Births, Deaths, Marriages, &c. 112
Table II.—Birth and Death-rates of Population, and of Children, and Deaths
in Public Institutions 113
Table III.—Deaths registered from all causes in 1894 : Summary of Ditto 114—118
Table IV.—Showing Mortality of Certain Groups of Diseases 119
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