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St Giles (Camden) 1899

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

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The Public Mortuary 114
Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 115
Water Supply 115
Bye-laws as to Houses let in Lodgings 116
Common Lodging-Houses Acts 117
Sanitary Congress 118
Sanitary Work 121
Inspections and Orders 121
Legal Proceedings 121
Overcrowding 121
Underground Rooms 121
Unsound Food 122
Animals kept so as to be a nuisance 122
Factories, Workshops, and Workplaces 122
Slaughter-Houses 123
Cow-Shed 123
Bakehouses 123
Disinfection of Infected Premises 125
Disinfection of Bedding, Clothing, &c. 125
Disinfectants 126
APPENDIX.
Table 1.—Population 1899, number of Houses, Births, Deaths, Marriages, &c. 129
Table 2—Birth and Death Rates of Population, and of Children and Deaths
in Public Institutions 130
Table 3.—Deaths Registered from all Causes in 1899 131
Summary of ditto 134
Table 4.—Showing Mortality of certain groups of Diseases 135
Table 5.—Showing Deaths in ten years from the Seven Principal Zymotic
Diseases 136
Table 6.—Report of Sanitary Work 137
Table 7.—Table of Deaths in St. Giles, 1899, classified according to Diseases,
Ages, and Localities (Table A, Local Government Board) 138
Table 8.—Table of Population, Births, and of new Cases of Infectious Sickness
(Table B, Local Government Board) 139
Table 9.—The Marriage, Birth, and Death Rates, 1889 to 1898 140
Table 10.—Registered Births and Deaths in St. Giles in 1899 141
Table 11.—Showing the Localities in which fatal cases of Zymotic Diseases
occurred in 1899 142
Table 12.—Comparative Analysis of the Vital Statistics in Registration
London, and in St. Giles District for 1899 143
Table 13.—Meteorology, 1899 144
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