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St Giles (Camden) 1897

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

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Removals of Infections Cases to Hospitals 95
Other Miasmatic Diseases:—
Influenza 98
The Plague 97
ii.—Constitutional Diseases 99
III.—Local Diseases 99
IV.—Sudden and Violent Deaths—Inquests 100
The Public Mortuary 102
Bye-laws as to Houses let in Lodgings 103
Common Lodging-Houses Acts 104
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 105
Customs and Inland Revenne Acts 106
Water Supply 107
Cleansing of Persons Act 107
Sanitary Work 107
Inspections and Orders 108
Legal Proceedings 108
Overcrowding 109
Underground Rooms 109
Animals kept so as to be a nuisance 109
Unsound Pood 109
Factories, Workshops, and Workplaces 109
Slaaghter-Houses 110
Cow-Shed 110
Bakehouses 111
Disinfection of Infected Premises 112
Disinfection of Bedding, Clothing, &c. 112
Disinfectants 113
APPENDIX.
Table 1.—Population 1897, number of Houses, Births, Deaths, Marriages, &c. 116
Table 2.—Birth and Death Rates of Population, and of Children and Deaths
in Public Institutions 117
Table 3.—Deaths Registered from all Causes in 1897 . 118
Summary of ditto 121
Table 4.—Showing Mortality of certain groups of Diseases 122
Table 5.—Showing Deaths in ten years from the Seven Principal Zymotic
Diseases 123
fable 6.—Report of Sanitary Work 124