Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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Books and Pamphlets received during the Quarter ending
Lady-day:—
Monthly Return of Births and Deaths and Marriages of Eight Towns in Scotland;
by Registrar General, April 1875.
Catalogue, with the Report of the Committee of Sanitary and Educational Exhibition
to the Council of the National Association, for the Promotion of Social Science.
On Improved Dwellings; by Charles Gatliff, Esq., F.S.E.
Report on the Sanitary Condition of Whitechapel District, for the Quarter ending
2 January, 1875; by John Liddle.
Report of St. Luke's Vestry, to Lady-day 1874, with List of Charities, &c.
Report of the Parliamentary Committee on the Working Classes Dwellings Bills;
Metropolitan Board of Works.
A few Remarks on the High Rate of Mortality in Glasgow ; by James Morrison.
Report of the Annual Meeting of Mercantile Marine Service Association, 66, Tower
Buildings, Water Street, Liverpool.
Report of a Meeting to consider the propriety of establishing a Home for the treatment
of Inebriates of the Upper and Middle Classes, under the Presidency of the
Earl of Shaftesbury.
Report upon the Sale of Food and Drugs Amended Bill; by Sedgwick Saunders,
M.D., April 1875.
Speech of W. Newton, Metropolitan Board ofWorks, on the Municipality of London
Bill, March 1875.
Report of the Board of Health, Chicago, for the years 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873.
Report of the Health of Liverpool; by W. S. Trench, M.D., for the year 1874.
Annual Summary of Births and Deaths in London, and other large Cities, 1874;
Registrar General.
Charity Pauperism, and Self Helps; by Charles Lamport, F.S.S., reprinted from the
Westminster Review, January 1875.
Tobacco, and the Diseases it produces ; by C. Drysdale, M.D., &c.
Printed. Reports of the Medical Officer of Health on the Vital Statistics and
Health of the Parish of Paddington, &c.
Annual Reports for 1868-69-70-71-72-73-74.
Quarterly Reports and Statistical Returns—No. 1 to 31.
Report on the Pollution of the Water and the cleansing of the Canal Basin—1868.
Report on the means of carrying out Disinfection in an adequate and effectual manner
in the Parish—1869.
Report on the erection of a Public Mortuary in the Parish, and upon the Management
thereof—1867.
Report upon the Abolition of Private Slaughter Houses in Towns, 1874.
Practical Sanitary Hints as to the best measures for preventing the spread of the
catching or epidemic diseases.
First, Second, Third and Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Quarterly Reports as Public Analyst,
and of Proceedings under the Food Adulteration Act of 1872.
First, (Second, not printed) and Third Report on the Condition of Sewers in the
Parish, and causes of Nuisances therein, with recommendations for their removal.
Report and Catalogue of Sanitary Articles exhibited at Leeds in 1871, prepared by
Dr. Hardwicke. Also of the Sanitary and Educational Exhibition at Norwich in
October, 1873.
TABLE V.
Localities in which Deaths from Zymotic and other Diseases have been recorde* during the Quarter ending March 25th, 1875.
Streets, Districts and Hospitals. | Small-Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria, &c. | Whooping Cough. | Typhus & other Fevers. | Erysipelas, &c. | Diarrhoea, &c. | Phthisis, &c. | Bronchitis, Pneumonia, &c. | Violent Deaths. | Other Diseases. | Total. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
St. Mary's Hospital | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 1 | .. | 8 | 3 | 10 | 26 | 52 |
Paddington Workhouse | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 7 | 22 | .. | 25 | 56 |
Lock Hospital | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Praed Street, including (1) | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 9 | 3 | 13 | 31 |
Harrow Road & N. W. Road (2) | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | .. | 10 | 30 |
Hall Park District (3) | .. | .. | .. | 2 | • • | 2 | 1 | .. | 6 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 20 |
Amberly Road District (4) | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 32 |
Kilburn District (5) | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | • • | ... | 2 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 25 |
Clarendon Street, 107 h., 1788 p. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 5 | 6 | .. | 3 | 17 |
Woodchester Street, 95 h., 1427 p.. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 5 | .. | 4 | 13 |
Cirencester Street, 97 h., 1511 p. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | 6 | .. | 6 | 17 |
Hampden Street, &c. (6) | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 7 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 19 |
Westbourne Park District (7) | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 11 | 14 | 2 | 28 | 58 |
Westbourne Terrace North, &c. (8) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 8 | 1 | 14 | 24 |
Kensal Road District &c. (9) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 6 | 6 | .. | 10 | 24 |
MoscowRoad,SalemGardens,&c.(10) | .. | .. | 4 | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 4 | 10 | 2 | 9 | 32 |
Squares and Mansions | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 5 | 16 | 2 | 19 | 45 |
Mews and Mansions (11) | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 4 | 1 | • • | • • | 1 | 13 | .. | 4 | 24 |
Other Places, including (13) | .. | 1 | 2 | 1 | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | 9 | 21 | 3 | 40 | 80 |
Total | .. | 2 | 12 | 16 | 6 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 97 | 164 | 27 | 246 | 599 |