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Class II.
Constitutional Diseases.—The deaths in this class amounted
to 600, giving a mortality rate of 2.8 per 1,000. The most fatal
diseases in this class were phthisis with 294 deaths, and cancer
with 138 deaths.
Class III.
Developmental.—The deaths in this class numbered 309,
being equivalent to a death rate of 1.4 per 1,000.
Class IV.
Local Diseases.—The diseases in this class furnished 1,581
deaths during the year. The death rate therefore becomes 7.3 per
1,000.
Class V.
Violence.—Violence was responsible for 116 deaths during the
year, giving a death rate of .5 per 1,000.
Class VI.
Ill-Defined Causes.—The deaths in this class were 184,
corresponding to a mortality rate of .8 per 1,000 living.
PUBLIC HEALTH (LONDON) ACT, 1891.
The nuisances abated under the provisions of this Act amounted
to 4,247. A large majority of them were removed on an intimation
only, over 4,000 of these notices being served; others required
statutory notices to be served before the necessary work was done,
the number of these for the year being 399; and legal proceedings
had to be resorted to in 111 cases to enforce the order of the
Sanitary Committee. Convictions were obtained in 75 cases. In
27 others the summonses were withdrawn, as the works required
were either completed or the nuisance abated at the time of the
hearing of the summons, and nine summonses were dismissed for
various reasons.
It will be remembered that in 1895 a summons against the
owner of a house in Southgate Road for not providing proper and
sufficient w.c. accommodation on the premises was dismissed by a
magistrate of the North London Police Court. The Sanitary
Committee appealed against this decision, and I give below the
reported proceedings and result in the High Court.