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Bethnal Green 1879

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green]

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East London Water Company 25
Slaughter Houses 26
Cow Houses 26
Regulations as to Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops 27
Fish Curing 37
Sanitary Legislation during the year 38
The Disqualification by Medical Relief Bill 40
Infected Bedding destroyed 40
Bedding supplied during 1879 40
Butter and Butterine 41
Mortuary 43
Cesspools and Drains 43
Legal Proceedings 45
Tin Burning 45
Dilapidated and Dangerous Structures 45
The Waste Ground in Somerford Street 46
Sanitary Work 46
Tables
I.—Shewing Population, Inhabited Houses, Births, Deaths, and Marriages
for 1879 and ten years preceding 47
II.—Annual Birth Rate, Rate of Mortality, Death Rates among Children,
and Deaths in Public Institutions, for the year 1879 and ten years
preceding 48
III.—Deaths registered at several groups of ages, from different causes,
during the year 1879 49
IV.—Shewing the Mortality from certain classes of Diseases, and proportions
to Population, and to 1000 Deaths, 1879 54
IV. (a)—Total Births and Deaths, and Deaths from some Zymotic and other
causes 55
IV. (b)—Total Marriages, Births, and Deaths, and Deaths from some Zymotic
and other causes, by Quarters 57
IV. (c)—Total Births and Deaths, and Deaths from some Zymotic and other
causes in London, during the year 1879 58
V.—Shewing the number of Deaths from the seven principal Zymotic
Diseases, inclusive of Hospital Deaths, in the ten years, 1869 and
1878, and in the year 1879 59
VI.—Inspectors' Report of Sanitary Work, &c. 60
VII.—Vaccination 61
VIII.—Analysis of the Mortality in London during the year 1879 62
IX.—Area, Population, Density, and Mortality in England and London 63
Addendum :—
Mortuary Chapel 64
Elevation and Ground Plan of ditto.
Regulations for ditto 65