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18684156-ed6d-4cd9-b785-1769959c4ef4 | Phthisis Other Tubercular 80 33 47 ... 2 2 5 19 50 4 ... ... 3 77 Diseases 6S 40 28 38 16 54 6 4 4 ... ... ... 1 67 III. |
4e2dba00-f63b-4ce0-9bb1-7d80fe40c84f | LooaL Nervous 75 35 40 17 20 37 4 ... 21 13 ... 1 5 69 Circulatory 47 23 24 2 ... 2 5 3 23 14 ... 2 2 43 Respiratory 225 109 116 70 65 135 9 6 53 22 1 ... 8 216 Digestive 71 29 42 34 11 45 1 3 18 4 ... ... 3 68 Urinary 23 12 11 ... ... ... 1 ... 19 3 ... 1 4 18 Generative 9 ... 9 ... ... ... ... 3 6 ... ... ... ... 9 L... |
8953c7f3-3d9b-461c-9f6f-80c4f2b58bd4 | Premature Birth, &c. 137 80 57 137 137 ... ... ... ... ... ... 6 131 Old Age 41 15 26 ... ... ... ... ... 1 40 ... 1 6 34 V. Violence 48 30 18 18 4 22 8 1 15 2 ... ... 2 46 VI. All other Diseases 1 ... 1 ... ... ... ... 1 ... ... ... ... 1 ... Totals 1134 560 574 430 246 676 54 43 246 115 1 5 54 1074 20 TABLE VII. STAT... |
cb84485a-a81a-46c5-953a-4221a22ec583 | From 5 to 15 years. From 15 to 25 years. | From 25 to 65 years. 65 years and upwards. Nobility and Gentry. Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c. Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c. Industrial and Labouring Classes, &c. Population Census) 1896, 93,385 Estimated mean population or middle of 1896, 93,889.... |
328884b7-b0e5-4222-abfe-68c915d07485 | . . 1 1 Puerperal Fever 2 . 2 . . . . . 2 . . . 1 1 Diphtheria 24 12 12 2 16 18 6 . . . . . 2 22 Whooping Cough 78 39 39 36 39 75 3 . . . . . 7 71 Erysipelas 4 1 3 1 1 2 . . 1 1 . . 2 2 Diarrhœa, Dysentery & Cholera 54 20 34 43 5 48 . . 3 3 . . 2 . Influenza 9 5 4 . . . . . 7 2 . 1 . . Other Zymotic Diseases . . . . . ... |
e43c5cd5-f905-4ac6-85d3-a6f2aac3077c | Total of Zymotic Diseases 275 131 144 106 127 233 20 . 16 6 . 1 15 259 II. Constitutional. Gout ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Rheumatism 3 ... 3 ... ... ... ... 1 2 ... ... ... ... ... Cancer & other Tumours 47 12 35 ... ... ... ... 1 31 15 1 1 5 40 Other Constitutional Diseases 12 8 4 7 ... 7... |
cf73ff1b-a85d-4616-985f-11b6991be96f | __JL Nervous 94 44 50 25 21 46 6 2 29 11 ... 2 7 85 Circulatory ... 39 39 2 ... 2 8 2 50 16 ... ... 8 70 Respiratory 253 150 103 100 42 142 5 4 71 3i 1 2 12 238 Digestive 64 29 35 24 9 33 7 1 19 4 ... 3 4 57 Urinary 36 18 18 ... 1 1 1 2 23 9 4 32 Generative 12 ... 12 ... ... ... ... ... 12 ... ... ... ... 12 Locomotory... |
8300935d-d270-4298-8a8a-35ab3d278deb | Premature Birth, Low Vitality, and Congenital Defects 153 82 153 ... 153 ... ... ... ... ... 2 12 139 Old Age 73 32 41 ... ... ... ... ... 2 7 4 2 11 ... V. Violence ... 36 12 15 5 20 3 2 22 1 ... ... 1 47 VI. "All other Diseases 3 ... 3 ... 2 2 ... ... 1 ... ... ... ... 3 Totals 1300 654 646 465 224 689 54 43 347 167 ... |
3270e0de-377a-4bae-916b-208f3a4e4ee7 | Under 1 year. From 1 to 5 years. All under 5 years. From 5 to 15 years. From 15 to 25 years. From 25 to 65 years. 65 years and upwards. Nobility and Gentry. Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c. Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c. Industrial and Labouring Classes. [Parishioners,] 1896. I. Zymotic. Smal... |
da6d6863-83d1-4dbb-bcaa-f5b1b88a9c8b | 1 Puerperal Fever 1 . 1 1 . . . . 1 Diphtheria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Whooping Cough . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erysipelas 3 1 2 1 3 Diarrhœa, Dysentery &) Cholera 16 11 5 10 3 13 . . 2 1 . . . 16 Influenza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other Zymotic Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total of Zymotic Class 24 15... |
a1b32266-72ab-4f4e-bdd3-fa3f712cffbf | Gout 2 ... 2 ... ... ... ... ... 1 1 ... ... ... 2 Rheumatism 4 3 1 ... ... ... ... 3 ... 1 ... ... ... 4 Cancer & other Tumours Other Constitutional 18 7 11 ... ... ... ... 1 10 7 ... ... ... 18 Diseases 2 ... 2 1 ... 1 ... ... 1 ... ... ... ... 2 T ubercular. Phythisis Other Tubercular Diseases 43 3 30 2 13 1 ... ...... |
eafdee8f-ca13-4ff4-93e6-1568c45c028c | Nervous 22 13 9 1 ... 1 ... ... 18 1 ... ... ... 22 Circulatory 23 14 9 ... ... ... ... 3 13 7 ... ... ... 23 Respiratory 27 19 8 2 ... 2 2 1 13 9 ... ... ... 27 Digestive 11 8 3 1 1 2 1 ... 4 4 ... ... ... 11 Urinary 10 7 3 ... ... ... 1 1 7 1 ... ... ... 10 Generative ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .... |
431b8e32-b59a-4bcf-b205-91da070aae1d | Premature Birth, Low Vitality and Congenital Defects 1 1 ... 1 ... 1 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 Old Age 44 19 25 ... ... ... ... ... 2 1 ... ... ... 44 V. Violence 3 2 1 ... ... ... ... ... 2 1 ... ... ... 3 VI. All other Diseases ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Totals 239 141 98 19 5 24 6 12... |
56818abb-c399-420e-9978-7fda6b54e36d | From 5 to 15 years. From 15 to 25 years. | From 25 to 65 years. 65 years and upwards. Nobility and Gentry. Professional Class, Merchants, Bankers, &c. Middle and Trading Class, Shopmen, Clerks, &c. Industrial and Labouring Class. [Non-Parishioners,] 1896. I. Zymotic. Small-pox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Measles 7 4 3 ... |
6892dca6-f9ad-45d1-a252-0dda03d03830 | . . . . . . . . . . . . Whooping Cough 2 . 2 1 1 . . . . . . . . 2 Erysipelas 3 3 . . . . . 1 1 1 . . . 3 Diarrhoea, Dysentery & Cholera 13 10 3 9 2 11 . . 2 . . . . 13 Influenza 1 1 . . . . . . 1 . . . . 1 Other Zymotic Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Total of Zymotic Diseases 26 18 8 10 10 20 . 1 4 1 . . . 26 II... |
96a84592-d8bf-434d-93be-0ebe995bbe2a | Gout ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Rheumatism 3 3 ... ... ... ... ... 1 ... 2 ... ... ... 3 Cancer & other Tumours Other Constitutional 11 6 5 ... ... ... ... ... 4 7 ... ... ... 11 Diseases 6 3 3 5 1 6 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 6 Tubercular. Phthisis 28 24 4 ... ... ... ... 1 24 3 ... ... .... |
124ffea7-2f96-4c60-a5c5-9564ac015beb | Nervous 17 6 11 ... ... ... 1 ... 13 3 ... ... ... 17 Circulatory 33 16 17 ... ... ... ... 3 16 14 ... ... ... 33 Respiratory 25 13 12 ... 1 1 ... 1 9 14 ... ... ... 25 Digestive 7 5 2 1 ... 1 ... 1 1 4 ... ... ... 7 Urinary 17 9 8 ... ... ... ... ... 10 7 ... ... ... 17 Generative 1 ... 1 ... ... ... ... 1 ... ... ...... |
676b8955-0d76-473d-ae60-2ed7ca0cd254 | Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Congenital Defects 7 1 6 7 ... 7 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 7 Old Age 49 16 33 ... ... ... ... ... 4 45 ... ... ... 49 V. Violence 6 4 ... ... 2 2 ... ... 4 ... ... ... ... 6 VI. All other Diseases 1 ... 1 ... 1 1 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 Totals 242 129 113 23 16 39 1 11 91 100 ... ... |
174099e3-e0f8-4ad7-953a-2dfc57cca4c1 | Bolingbroke Hospital Female 47 years Cancer „ „ Male 45 years Kidney disease „ „ Male 29/12 years Accident—burns „ „ Male 51 years Suicide—cutthroat „ „ Female 84 years Accident—run over ,, „ Male 24 years Suicide—shot „ „ Male 65 years „ —poisoning ,, ,, Female 13 years Accident—run over „ „ Female 52 years Cancer „ „... |
cdcc2e1e-6246-4f8e-82ee-13f931b14b4d | Bolingbroke Hospital Female 54 years Cancer „ „ Female 48 years Caves of spine „ „ Male 49 years Respiratory ,, „ Male 33 years Accident—fracture of skull „ „ Female 57 years Digestive ,, „ Female 45 years Heart Disease „ „ Male 20 years Accident—fracture of skull ,, „ Male 68 years ,, —run over ,, ,, Male 39 years Kid... |
98588cb6-154a-4e83-96a3-8965ba307d0c | 24 Of the deaths under one year, two hundred and ninety-eight were from premature birth, malformation, or low vitality at birth, nearly one-third of the total number of deaths recorded at that age. All deaths under five years, the infantile period of life, were equal to forty-eight per cent, of the total deaths. This i... |
c6dbb51b-ebf4-4f10-a88b-996c98434318 | In public institutions outside the parish twenty-six Battersea people died above sixty-five years, making a total of three hundred and eighty-eight parishioners dying at this advanced age. Table B. This, the second table prescribed by the Local Government Board, contains particulars of the population, births, notificat... |
8abe5127-de7c-4d05-a8c4-c1139847e442 | The out-door districts of East and West Battersea have populations based upon the ascertained increase of population during the last inter-censal period, while the institutions have the census populations of 1896 given. Table B of health, during the year 1896 in the metropolitan sanitary district of battersea, classifi... |
dac43021-585e-4695-8cb9-eef514e4b459 | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 u 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 fevers. fevers. Census. 1896. (6) Estimated to middle of 1896. (c) Small Pox. Scarlatina. Diphtheria. Membranous Croup Typhus. Enteric or Typhoid. Continued. Relapsing. Puerperal. Cholera. Erysipelas. Small Pox. Scarlatina. Diphtheria. Membranous Croup Typhus. Enteric or T... |
7d8f13ae-8fc2-4f7a-a69a-97d55f947aa9 | 500 Under 5 . 195 82 8 . 4 . . . . 13 . 124 32 4 . 2 . . . . . 5 upwards 3 507 144 6 . 63 1 . 6 . 123 1 353 54 1 . 29 . . 4 . 10 West Battersea 91,928 92,432 2,858 Under 5 . 113 59 6 . . . . . . 4 . 49 25 . . . . . . . . 5 upwards 5 278 115 4 . 42 . . 4 101 3 145 24 . . 16 . . 2 . 8 Wandsworth and Clapham Union Infirma... |
be55f613-f3d4-47e7-a76c-bebbe006f51f | 1 . . . . 20 . 5 . . . . . . . . . Bolingbroke Hospital 39 39 . Under 5 5 upwards 1 1 Westminster Union Schools- 183 183 . Under 5 5 upwards 8 8 Masonic School, Battersea Rise 316 316 . Under 5 5 upwards Emanuel School, Battersea Rise 211 211 . Under 5 5 upwards 2 1 Totals 165,115 165,847 5,358 Under 5 312 141 14 4 18 ... |
869d8a79-3833-4125-87cb-50efef6e8c93 | Small Pox Scarlatina Diphtheria Membranous Croup Typhus Fever Enteric Fever ! Continued Fever 1 Relapsing Fever 1 Puerperal Fever 1 Cholera Erysipelas totals. 8 1111 402 24 ... 110 1 ... 10 ... 263 1929 Deaths at Home. ... 5 45 5 ... 11 ... ... 3 ... 14 83 TABLE XI. Particulars of Cases of Infectious Disease removed to... |
ddbea410-19ca-46ce-9a53-d4d40b85d00c | ... 27 32 ... ... 6 ... ... 1 ... 2 68 27 Below will be found a synopsis of the notifications received during the year, with removals to hospital:— Removed to Notified. Hospital. |
f8d4277e-64a6-4196-a920-d11cd42541e9 | Small Pox 8 4 Scarlatina 1,111 689 Diphtheria 402 135 Membranous Croup 24 5 Typhus Fever — — Enteric Fever 110 47 Continued Fever 1 — Relapsing Fever — — Puerperal Fever 10 6 Cholera — — Erysipelas 263 18 1,929 904 Ages :— Under 5 years 489 240 5 years and upwards 1,440 664 1,929 904 Where occurring:— East Battersea M5... |
9269c11f-1b5b-4218-a339-5d8d7f6662b7 | George's Hospital. London Fever Hospitals. Wandsworth & Clapham Union Infirmary. Small-Pox. Eight cases of Small-Pox were notified during 1896 ; of these, four were not genuine cases of the disease, but of other diseases difficult to differentiate in the early stages. 13th Feb. Male 28 53, Candahar Rd. Admitted A. B. H... |
4b62592e-3677-405b-873d-79622e67e779 | „, , „ „ Removed A. B. Hosp. 4th Aug. Male 8 37, Dashwood Rd. ■ . . „ „ Returned not S.-Pox. Four cases were removed to the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospital Ships, all of whom recovered. They had all been vaccinated in infancy. As there have been complaints that persons suffering from this and other infectious disea... |
1821c0c0-8e72-4e48-935e-0319b7758c20 | which enacts that it shall not be lawful for any owner or driver of a public conveyance knowingly 29 to convey, or for any other person knowingly to place in any public conveyance a person suffering from any dangerous infectious disease, or for a person suffering from any such disease to enter any public conveyance, an... |
df8d3cbd-b117-4328-93b3-1717fd6bbe44 | A chamber has been provided at the Vestry's Depot, Culvert Road, where conveyances can be disinfected free of charge. The Metropolitan Asylums Board will remove in one of their ambulances any person suffering from infectious disease to places other than the Board's hospitals upon application and payment of the sum of f... |
8a71b892-75d7-44d1-9971-2fd96514faef | The deaths in hospital, to which the worst type of cases is generally removed, was twenty-seven, or just four per cent, of cases, while of the cases treated at home, the majority of which were of a very slight nature, involving perhaps only scarlatinal sore throat, rather over one per cent. died. 30 One thing is certai... |
9ef1c904-33fb-4423-b79e-db230ac6975e | Thirty-two of these latter cases died, giving a hospital mortality of just under twenty-three per cent. Of the cases treated at home two hundred and sixty-two in number, eighteen died equal to 7.6 per cent. This disease appears to have become endemic in the Metropolis. Enteric One hundred and ten cases of Enteric Fever... |
764e3809-f00f-4f2e-be21-460aaba47ba3 | One death occurred among the six cases of Puerperal Fever removed to hospital. Of the four remaining at home three died. Erysipelas. For some reason this disease has increased during the last few years in the Metropolis. During 1896 two hundred and sixty-three cases were notified, of these eighteen were removed to hosp... |
70f7e150-c157-46b2-8835-7ece3b68994e | Small Pox Scarlatina Diphtheria and Membranous Croup Typhus Fever Enteric Fever Continued Fever Relapsing Fever Puerperal Fever Cholera Erysipelas Totals Small Pox Scarlatina Diphtheria and Membranous Croup Typhus Fever Enteric Fever Continued Fever Relapsing Fever Puerperal Fever Cholera Erysipelas Totals No. 1 2 266 ... |
2d80ce96-7f88-4b99-a5a1-f5eb152eccb9 | 2 i 288 165 ... 26 ... ... 4 ... 60 544 1 202 49 ... 11 ... ... 3 ... 6 272 3 1 178 103 ... 11 ... ... 2 ... 49 344 1 92 31 ... 9 ... ... 2 ... 4 139 4 ... 149 39 ... 25 ... ... 1 ... 40 254 ... 76 11 ... 9 ... ... 1 ... 1 98 5 4 163 31 ... 16 ... ... ... ... 47 261 2 107 17 ... 7 ... ... ... ... 2 135 " 6. |
8763d7c3-a211-4f74-85f9-99fe675c50bc | ... 67 26 ... 8 ... ... 2 ... 11 114 ... 23 6 ... 2 ... ... ... ... 1 32 Whole Parish 8 1111 426 ... 110 1 ... 10 ... 263 1929 4 689 140 ... 47 ... ... 6 ... 18 904 32 Table XII. is an entirely new table shewing the incidence of notifiable disease in the different sanitary districts, and, taking into consideration the ... |
e95ca92d-4860-46f3-b302-f69eed4b83e4 | It is hoped that much good has been done and many lives saved by this means, as a notable diminution in the number of fatal cases has always been manifest after its issue. PRECAUTIONS AS TO DIARRHCEA. In consequence of the prevalence of Diarrhcea amongst young children, more especially those brought up by hand, the Ves... |
f323e019-c6ac-4bb2-a37d-a729af2b68e5 | Disinfectants in case of illness are supplied free of charge on application to the Public Health Department, Town Hall Road, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., and on Saturdays, between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. 33 Measles. The number of cases which occurred during the earlier months of 1896 cannot be ascertained, as this... |
fcdb88f2-2aa3-4af5-9888-f3b497270a2e | The Vestry, as the Sanitary Authority for the Parish, and as advised by the Medical Officer of Health, desire to direct the attention of parents and others to the importance of checking the spread of Measles, which is now prevalent in an epidemic form and is causing much mortality by complications, such as Bronchitis a... |
00ada69a-5d76-4037-8260-44e10d1f8d7f | Medical aid should be sought in every case where difficulty of breathing is observed. c 34 Disinfectants in a dilute form should be freely used in every case of measles in a warm bath at the onset and termination of the disease, and to sponge the face and other parts during the illness. In case of inability to obtain s... |
31877a06-ad1c-4c2b-816e-dbf052f22103 | Thus from the two diseases combined three hundred and twenty-five deaths occurred, comparing most unfavourably with a total of one hundred and fifty-one deaths from all the notifiable zymotic diseases, an unanswerable argument in favour of the compulsory notification of all infectious diseases, they, in the prenotifica... |
f2a655ed-39a8-41af-8248-a124c35f9770 | Mary, Battersea, as the Sanitary Authority and as advised by the Medical Officer of Health, in consequence of the renewed prevalence of Influenza, 35 desire to direct the attention of the public to the extremely infectious character of the disease, and to point out that to the exposure of those in an infective conditio... |
b91b4caf-29f0-4416-be12-8732fb4af6d2 | It is desirable that persons thus affected should at once go to bed and there remain until convalescence is established in order to avoid the dangers of Pneumonia or Bronchitis, which are the chief complications to be feared, as likely to lead to fatal results. Early recourse to medical assistance is desirable in every... |
e5ba6f52-17ca-4039-b73c-41d14272f8ca | Influenza became epidemic in England in the winter of 1889-90 ; it recurred in epidemic form in the spring of 1891, and was maintained up to June of that year; a third epidemic took place in the winter of 1891-92, and after a minor recrudescence in the spring of 1893, a fifth prevalence on a wide scale took place in th... |
f7c67011-6697-49e0-b3a4-41fbaa0a09c3 | Parsons, with papers on the Clinical and Pathological aspects of the Disease, by Dr. Klein, F.R.S., and an introduction by myself. A " Provisional Memorandum upon Precautions advisable at times when Epidemic Influenza threatens, or is prevalent," was also drawn up by me in January, 1892, and was issued by the Board to ... |
df6dd1fb-e468-40ce-b19d-dd135b7418ae | Influenza is highly infective from person to person; its infectious quality is often manifested before the disease is fully recognised ; its incubation period is one of the shortest of all infectious diseases; it varies so much in intensity that many cases are never diagnosed at all; one attack confers no marked immuni... |
2dee0e6a-87cb-4da7-b16c-d1f20ba7f5a4 | The sputa of the sick should, especially in the acute stage of the disease, be received into vessels containing disinfectants. Infected articles and rooms should be cleansed and disinfected. 3rd. When Influenza threatens, unnecessary assemblage of persons should be avoided. 4th. Buildings and rooms in which many people... |
d37c36be-5dd9-414e-aa16-8c44c29b4e2b | Persons who are attacked by Influenza should at once seek rest, warmth, and medical treatment, and they should bear in mind that the risk of relapse, with dangerous complications, constitutes a chief danger of the disease. R. Thorne Thorne. Local Government Board, Medical Department, March 6th, 1895. It will be perceiv... |
6b948b95-29fe-45ae-9ff2-b37422d9104a | The zymotic death rate for 1896 was 3-6 per thousand persons, being a fractional point above 1895, which was 2-9, being about equal to the decennial zymotic rate, and largely composed of deaths from Measles and other infantile diseases. 38 TABLE XIII. Comparative Table of Zymotic Mortality during the past 11 years. |
56398ed3-366f-4749-90ed-526c90e09762 | 1886 00 00 m 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 Small Pox Measles 70 82 87 104 i59 37 90 90 151 99 185 Scarlet Fever 14 68 25 12 10 10 15 17 5 10 5 Diphtheria 9 23 22 21 27 35 28 90 67 60 5° Enteric, &c., Fevers 23 17 13 15 21 19 8 14 13 15 11 Whooping Cough 104 112 119 81 146 104 100 "5 77 52 137 Epidemic Di... |
4990dca1-70e8-47fc-94af-67ac8393167a | !52 *75 75 112 121 104 99 I20 93 151 169 Other Zymotic Diseases 26 25 22 21 59 89 *33 il8 62 104 45 Total Deaths from Zymotic Diseases 398 502 363 366 543 398 473 564 468 491 602 Zymotic Death Rate 3'0 3 7 26 25 36 26 30 3*5 28 2 9 3'6 Death-rates from all Diseases ig'o 18 2 157 156 193 17 3 17 4 .7-8 !5 4 178 177 Tabl... |
73c85c52-3a58-49d3-9bdd-d51e54735c51 | Although the population has considerably increased during the period the deaths do not vary greatly from year to year, showing a relative decreasing mortality, which may be reasonably credited to improved conditions of existence, which is in reality all-round sanitation. But for the prevalence of Influenza and diseases... |
5e13207d-fe0a-4576-9416-6e7534c65c5b | 289 280 223 212 261 195 259 213 211 334 211 Of the Heart, &c. 159 128 113 108 148 141 183 159 173 213 182 Of the Respiratory Or— gans,excluding Phthsis 584 538 474 391 618 572 635 653 471 623 531 Of Digestive Organs. 96 86 113 100 118 122 112 127 197 114 154 Of Urinary Organs 31 53 24 39 34 49 72 60 57 56 88 Of Organs ... |
011d815d-6385-4e51-81cd-88d9b37dcc22 | 20 30 9 3 4 7 2 3 6 5 Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Malforma— tion, &c 175 202 175 205 206 238 256 295 273 332 298 Of Uncertain Seat Cancer, Syphilis, Dropsy, &c. 106 105 79 96 70 89 233 130 114 108 122 Age 99 88 57 52 71 74 122 103 118 128 207 Violence 63 63 56 ... 60 77 ... 60 81 102 70 102 117 Constitutional 5 ... ... |
bf6dcc7a-afc8-4b7f-8987-2432c228513b | During the year 1896, 319 cases jcame under the notice of the Coroner. In forty-one of these cases he decided that no further inquiry was necessary, and they are marked in the Registrar's Returns as " submitted to Coroner," which is considered sufficient to authorise registration. In the other 278 cases inquests were h... |
838a31ca-e5fb-4c12-b19f-b5d62e111444 | 26 Drowned 4 Blow on head 1 Want of attention at birth 2 Suffocated 5 — 81 From Homicidal Causes :— Suicide—Hanging 3 Cut throat 3 Shot 4 Drowning 1 Poisoning 4 — Murder—Asphyxiation 4 Strangulation 1 _ 5 Justifiable Homicide—Shot 1 — 1 Open Verdicts:— Found Drowned 4 Injuries 5 Alcoholism 3 Self Neglect 2 Poisoning 1 ... |
4e837969-db9f-440e-947f-547e78141969 | 7th April Tuesday 25th „ Sunday. 21 st „ Tuesday 7th December Monday. 12th May Tuesday 25th „ Friday. 14th June Sunday 25th „ Friday. Differently arranged:— Sunday 6 Monday 4 Tuesday 4 Wednesday 1 Thursday 1 Friday 4 Saturday — 20 Social Position of Persons Dying During 1896. Number. Per Cent. Nobility and Gentry 7 0.2... |
919701d6-8426-4450-ac19-0f181b7e1520 | The water companies have bills in the House of Commons and the London County Council has introduced 41 measures giving it control over the water supply. In my report for last year the subject was very fully discussed, and as the matter is one involving as it does the expenditure of many millions of the public money as ... |
832989ea-ee03-4afe-8aeb-b7c1d1d02602 | Mansergh is the Engineer who is now bringing water to Birmingham from Wales, while Mr. Hill is supplying Manchester from Thirlmere. The witnesses examined include nearly one hundred of the leading sanitarians and engineers, together with representatives of the great public bodies of the Metropolis and elsewhere, the Lo... |
f147daca-329e-47fc-bb3d-9cae54b7877c | They find, as the Companies always maintained, that " the water as supplied to the consumer in London is of a very high standard of excellence and of purity, and that it is suitable in quality for all household purposes," and also that the Thames and Lea Valleys may, without prejudice to the claims or material injury t... |
4d756d22-8e24-49a9-aa59-02261b6c0a32 | From the Thames, when required, may be taken 300,000,000 gallons a day; from the Lea, 52,500,000 gallons; from wells in the Lea Valley, 40,000,000 gallons; and from wells in the Kent Company's district, 27,500,000 gallons; besides a further considerable quantity, should it ever be wanted, from the Valley of the Medway ... |
23e8660e-c8c8-4ef9-9992-3d053e3e9ddb | These are :— (1) The effect which might be expected upon the Thames of taking double the present quantity of the water from the river during periods of drought. (2) The amount of storage space to be provided above the intakes in order to make the taking of any more of this water unnecessary. The conclusion of the Commi... |
26b4b6b2-e220-4b19-88cc-56898ed8c656 | In their report, however, they very properly advise that further efforts shall be made to keep pollution of all kinds out of the Rivers, and maintain their purity in every possible way. Conclusions. The Commissioners then state that— " We are strongly of opinion that the water as supplied to the consumer in London is o... |
89e723d9-1eab-43d3-ae5a-18317f4b385d | With respect to the quantity of water which can be obtained within the watersheds of the Thames and the Lea, we are of opinion that, if the proposals we have recommended are adopted, a sufficient supply to meet the wants of the Metropolis for a long time to come may be found without any prejudice to the claims, or mate... |
7bb5664e-d934-4014-9cd2-a4209b27428f | From wells in the chalk area on the south side of the Thames, in the district of the Kent Company, we are of opinion that a daily average supply of 27,500,000 gallons may be obtained. We think it of very great importance that distinct obligations should be laid upon any company or Local Authority which is allowed to pu... |
f59b6bf9-8ae9-4693-a7fe-32c045c3ee9d | We are of opinion that, by the construction of storage reservoirs in the Thames Valley, at no great distance above the intakes of the Companies, it will be possible to obtain an average daily supply of 300,000,000 gallons without taking in any objectionable part of the flood water. The average daily flow of the Thames ... |
a559857f-c614-4c95-b690-8286354d4db2 | It will thus be seen that, when 300,000,000 gallons are taken, there will be left to flow down into the tidal portion of the river an average daily quantity of not less than 1,000,000,000; and we think that regulations could be framed under which the quantity 45 we suggest could be taken, not only without reducing the ... |
127435fd-89bc-478c-bad2-629cd904f72a | From the sources and by the methods we have mentioned, a daily supply of 424,000,000 gallons can, in our opinion, be obtained. This is a sufficient quantity to supply 35 gallons per head to a population of 12,000,000 persons, which is about three-quarters of a million in excess of what the total population of Greater L... |
75b60195-3434-4c73-945e-4afae97843f4 | Of these witnesses examined whose evidence was directly adverse to the reservoir and storage schemes put forward by the Companies, that of Mr. A. R. Binnie, M. Inst., C.E., Chief Engineer to the London County Council, was the most important. Mr. Binnie's evidence was to the effect that the supply that could 46 be drawn... |
53364da4-0632-4f93-a443-cb8f440babed | The Water Committee of the London County Council issued a memorandum by its Chairman and a series of reports by the principal officers of the Council on the report of the Royal Commission on the Metropolitan Water supply by which it will be seen that the conclusions of the Royal Commission are controverted to a certain... |
8cffdfa9-bec2-45c4-a599-9a03bc06e84c | But this never entered into the reference to the Commission, and in considering their report it has constantly to be borne in mind that whatever they say in support of the prospective sufficiency (for forty years only) of the watersheds of the Thames and Lea has no bearing on the real question whether new gathering gro... |
550385d5-ba00-4f79-9a41-62d5407fe11c | In regard to this, one has to bear in mind the long time which is required for the execution of the vast works necessary in large water schemes, and Mr. Binnie, the Council's chief engineer, says plainly that the people of London, " will, at some not very distant date (probably twenty years hence) have to contemplate t... |
ec5b658e-6837-44f7-9c78-56c316304dc0 | G. H. Hill stating that provision for a large town should be for a period of not less than 50 years, and Mr. James Mansergh, the engineer to the scheme, indicating that he calculated his supply for some sixty-four years, and on that basis laid out the works which the Corporation of Birmingham are now carrying out. The ... |
eed7f8b4-98f9-48a9-a940-dd356d84bd53 | If the extreme minimum flow per twenty-four hours is taken, the difficulty of providing a supply both for the River and the Metropolis is still more apparent. Tests Not to be Relied on. There is a good deal of common sense in some of the remarks in the reports about the safety, or otherwise, of polluted waters. Mr. Bin... |
cb333edd-e9c3-4334-ace9-3bfe960cbe5e | Asked what would be his treatment of the water if it were found to be polluted, he could only answer that " there was nothing for it but either to boil the polluted water, or else to leave it alone." In face of such evidence from Such an authority we turn with interest to the paragraphs in Mr. Binnie's report summarisi... |
bf71ef75-75f2-439f-8d5b-c57af36e0108 | Besides this human population there are probably 1,600,000 animals inhabiting the above area." Consequently it is clear that if the Thames is to be retained as a source of water supply, the people of London must drink the more or less clarified excreta of this vast population. The Quality of Present Sources of Supply. ... |
70978a7e-d7ff-428f-a188-e5d2ca2835e9 | In addition to these, numerous pollutions from smaller populations discharging into cesspools and ditches reach, untreated, the streams at times of heavy rainfall. Such sewage must not infrequently contain the excremental matter of persons suffering from typhoid fever and may not improbably in the future, contain from ... |
58ccb3c7-021d-4e7e-b019-25a5608158e1 | In the present state of knowledge on such matters we are driven back to much the same opinion as that held by the late Sir George Buchanan, who said that he did not think that it was possible, either by chemical, microscopical, or bacteriological d 50 processes, to say when a water was or was not injurious, and that th... |
8f9790d2-5b7d-42ab-8f24-6426ce4ae522 | At the time of writing the water bills brought forward by the London County Council for acquiring the undertakings of the various companies supplying water to the metropolis have been wrecked for the session of 1897, as upon one being defeated in the House of Commons by a decisive majority, the rest were perforce withd... |
34d3f16f-5478-468f-9a2d-3f3e6e71a176 | Since writing above, the Government have intimated that a Royal Commission would be appointed to consider the whole subject of the Metropolitan Water Supply, together with the report of the London Water Commission, and the President of the Local Government Board, in answer to a question in the House of Commons, stated ... |
54a81563-583c-4f98-91c0-188296fde51a | They would also be asked to say—(i) whether any division within the limits of supply of the companies was practicable and desirable, and if so what were the legal powers necessary to give effect to any such arrangement; and (2) if the undertakings were not so acquired, whether additional power of control should be exer... |
85d3ef4e-7257-430c-8b92-949f513ebab8 | Public Health (London) Act, 1891, which consolidated and amended the various Acts under which the Sanitation of London had been previously carried out. It contained also many valuable provisions which had hitherto only been extra Metropolitan and contained in the Public Health Act, 1875, under which provincial Sanitary... |
9ea02098-c5d5-4944-9ad8-47a8f0ec447a | 4.—The most essential difference between the procedure under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and the various other preceding Acts, is that formerly if a notice to abate a nuisance from the Sanitary Authority was not complied with, proceedings had to be commenced before a justice and evidence produced to satisfy h... |
436f709c-ed90-4a56-9af3-17524191f8cc | The authority can specify works and insist upon the carrying out of the same under the latter section, and now does so in a large proportion of cases. Sees. 5, 6 and 7 contain provisions fey orders, penalties and appeals, and enables the Sanitary Authority itself to carry out necessary works in default of responsible o... |
62c278af-ffdc-4d6b-8de1-7b43c5247483 | Bye.laws are to be made by the authority for the prevention of nuisances or keeping of animals so as to be a nuisance or injurious to health, and as to paving yards. The London County Council has made Bye.laws under the following sections which are now operative:— Sec. 16.1.—Removal of fcecal matter. ,, Removal and dis... |
e7184ad7-84eb-4c29-bb83-0baa0d9c3b1e | These are in active operation, and can be obtained at the office of the Sanitary Department by any ratepayer desiring a copy. There are other bye.laws which may be made by the Sanitary Authority, and which are now under consideration. They are:— 54 Sec. 66. Removal to hospital of infected persons. This is now effected ... |
16fa0853-0c51-4d70-bc07-0ba4f2134ad6 | 23 and 24 the control of smoke nuisances other than in private dwellings is placed under the Sanitary Authority instead of the Police, and has considerably increased the work of the Sanitary Department. Work.shops, Work.places and Factories are also placed under the supervision of the Sanitary Authority with certain du... |
9cdb8427-f7d4-4ede-9782-0bae3659c53c | Should a person find himself in the possession of unsound food he himself may give notice to the Vestry, who must remove the same as trade refuse and this procedure would seem to relieve him of the penalties mentioned. 55 Sec. 48 contains the important provision that a newly-erected dwelling.house must not be occupied ... |
41165a37-70cc-48db-8fb5-bdecf5d8ac32 | 59, 60 and 61 require the authority to make provisions for the disinfection of clothing, &c., which provision has been duly made by the Vestry. The subsequent sections provide that infectious refuse shall not be treated so as to be dangerous to the public health, and drescribe penalties on persons letting houses or apa... |
8797012d-7261-44e7-859d-3fef6bf70da3 | The Mortuary accommodation is, however, becoming somewhat inadequate for the needs of this ever increasing parish, and it is proposed to partially rebuild and enlarge the Mortuary, so as to render it, what it was for many years—a model of what such a building should be. Originally said to be the best arranged Mortuary ... |
0aaf97b7-1311-4d14-a957-f51bde0f7469 | provisions of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1890, exempting houses structurally fitted in the opinion of the Medical Officer of Health for occupation as separate tenements at an annual rental not exceeding £20 from the liability to house duty. The 1891 Act raises the amount to £^0 annual rental. These Acts have a... |
9d9fd2f8-a571-450a-9844-7d438edbe7a9 | The numbers inspected yearly from 1890, in which two hundred and forty.three were inspected, and after the execution of necessary works re.inspected and certified were for 1891, one hundred and nineteen; for 1892, one hundred and sixty.five; for 1893, two hundred and one; for 1894 1895, each ninety.one; during 1896, on... |
fc518edc-c7e6-452c-b0cc-e33c41ffb7d4 | Grand Totals of Cases and Deaths from all Diseases. Battersea. Small-Pox. Measles. Scarlatina. Diphtheria. Whooping Cough. Enteric & other Fevers. Erysipelas. Puerperal Fever or Metria. Diarrhœa, Dysentery, or Cholera. Influenza. Other Zymotic Diseases. Total. Cases ... 91 26 16 42 1 19 ... 94 55 9 353 Deaths ... 2 ...... |
e77c43f4-a0df-4b9f-ba5c-43b7d46f4ad6 | Premature Birth, Low Vitality, Malformation, &c. Age. Violence. All other Diseases. Total. Cases 91 140 24 752 118 6 4 128 101 2058 2422 3775 Deaths 5 1 1 6 1 1 1 2 1 3 22 26 The total number of cases attended was three thousand seven hundred and seventy.five. The total of deaths while under care was twenty.six, but th... |
2ac4de75-b078-405e-871d-2c807a461de6 | of those births duly entered by the 31st January, 1895, in Cols. 10, 11, and 13, of the Vaccination Register. (Birth List Sheets), viz.:— No. of Births which on, the 31st January, 1897, remained unentered in the Vaccination Register on account. Number of those Births remaining on 31st January neither duly entered in Va... |
c6e234cf-aff6-45e8-8177-17e1c9952774 | (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) East Battersea 2470 1563 17 ... 245 ... 155 12 218 260 West Battersea 2817 1868 19 ... 298 ... 181 10 168 273 Totals 5287 3431 36 ... 543 ... 336 22 386 533 The above Table is self.explanatory. Royal Com. In the year 1889, a Royal Commission was apmission on Vaccination, po... |
a922aaba-e882-4a8f-838a-75465cc106a2 | The objections made to vaccination on the ground of injurious effects alleged to result therefrom; and the nature and extent of any injurious effects which do, in fact, so result. (4 ) Whether any, and, if so, what means should be adopted, for preventing or lessening the ill effects, if any, resulting from vaccination;... |
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