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St Giles (Camden) 1895

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]

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Notification of Infectious Diseases (London) 91
Do. in St. Giles District 92
Do Weekly Chart of the number of cases of Small-pox, Scarlet Fever,
Diphtheria, and Enteric Fever notified during 1895 facing 92
Removals of Infectious Cases to Hospitals 92
Disinfection of Infected Premises 93
Disinfection of Bedding, Clothing, &c. 93
Other Miasmatic Diseases—
I.—Influenza 94
II.—Constitutional Diseases 97
III.—Local Diseases 97
IV.—Sudden and Violent Deaths. Inquests 98
The Public Mortuary 99
Bye-laws as to Houses let in Lodgings 99
Common Lodging-Houses Acts 101
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 101
Fried Fish Shops 102
Purveyors of Ice Creams 103
Sanitary Work 104
Inspections and Orders 105
Proceedings before Magistrates 105
Underground Booms 105
Overcrowding 105
Animals kept so as to be a Nuisance 106
Unsound Food 106
Factories, Workshops, and Workplaces 106
Slaughter-Houses 106
Cowshed 107
Bakehouses 107
Disinfectants 109
APPENDIX.
Table 1.—Population 1895, number of Houses, Births, Deaths, Marriages, &c. 112
Table 2.— Birth and Death Kates of Population, and of Children and Deaths
in Public Institutions 113
Table 3.—Deaths Registered from all Causes in 1895 114
Summary of ditto 118
Table 4.— Showing Mortality of certain groups of Diseases 119
Table 5.—Showing Deaths in the ten years from the Seven Principal Zymotic
Diseases 120
Table 6.—Report of Sanitary Work 121