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Summonses heard at Police Courts, under Sanitary Act 3
,, under Act for the prevention of Adulteration of Food, &c. 0
Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 1
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated 1
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 185
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of
small-pox, fever, and scarlet-fever therein 144
Articles, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed from
rooms to the Stone Yard and disinfected in the Apparatus 4459
Yards of houses paved, or the pavement repaired 36
Drains in houses improved 63
Dust-bins provided 2
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 91
Water supply provided or improved 18
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 29
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 36
Animals (swine, fowls and a horse) kept so as to be a nuisance,
removed 24
ANNUAL REPORT.
The number of births registered in this District during the year
1881 (consisting of 53 weeks), has been 2733, giving an average of
about 51 per week; and the deaths have been 2302, which is a
weekly average of about 43, including the deaths of non-residents in
the London Hospital (439). In the preceding year, consisting of 52
weeks, the births were 2722, giving a weekly average of about 52,
and the deaths were 2426, or a weekly average of about 46, including
those of non-residents (434). The births are therefore less by 11
than they were in the preceding year, and the deaths are 124 less.
The rate of mortality in this year (consisting of 53 weeks), as will
be seen in Table V, has been 24.3 per 1000; while in the preceding
year it was 26.0 per 1000, and in 1873, which also consisted of 53
weeks, deducting in both years the deaths of non-residents, was 26.5
per 1000.