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St Giles (Camden) 1898

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

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Removals of Infectious Cases to Hospitals 105
Ambulance Service 106
Other Miasmatic Diseases:—
Influenza 108
II.—Constitutional Diseases 108
III.—Local Diseases 109
IV.—Sudden and Violent Deaths—Inquests 110
The Public Mortuary 111
Bye-laws as to Houses let in Lodgings 112
Common Lodging-Houses Acts 113
Housing of the Working; Classes Act, 1890 114
Water Supply 114
Sanitary Congress 115
Sanitary Work 123
Inspections and Orders 123
Legal Proceedings 123
Unsound Food 124
Animals kept so as to be a nuisance 124
Overcrowding 124
Underground Rooms 124
Factories, Workshops, and Workplaces 125
Slaughter-Houses 125
Cow-Shed 126
Bakehouses 126
Disinfection of Infected Premises 127
Disinfection of Bedding, Clothing, &c. 127
Disinfectants 128
APPENDIX.
Table 1.—Population 1897, number of Houses, Births, Deaths, Marriages, &c. 132
Table 2 —Birth and Death Rates of Population, and of Children and Deaths
in Public Institutions 133
Table 3.—Deaths Registered from all Causes in 1897 134
Summary of ditto 137
Table 4.—Showing Mortality of certain groups of Diseases 138
Table 5.—Showing Deaths in ten years from the Seven Principal Zymotic
Diseases 139
Table 6.—Report of Sanitary Work 140