THE ANNUAL REPORT ON HEALTH, SANITARY CONDITION1878 |
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annual report births Brompton sub-district bye-laws carried cause of death cent certificate Chelsea children under five Company Contagious Diseases Animals cowkeepers cows cowsheds dairies death-rate Deaths of Children deaths registered decennial average Diarrhoea diphtheria disinfected ditto duties enteric fever epidemic fatal females glanders Government Board illness infection infectious diseases inhabited houses inquests inspection Inspector Kensington license London males Managers Medical Officer Metropolis Metropolitan Asylum Metropolitan Board Mews milk mortality mortuary non-pauper Nuisance Authority number of deaths number of persons occurred Officer of Health Order organic outbreak parish patients Phthisis polluted population Portobello Road premature birth premises proportion provision Quarter ended quarterly numbers re-vaccination referred regulations removed respect sanitary authority Scarlet Fever Scrofula sheds sick small-pox spread Street subjoined table shows temperature Terrace Thames Thames water total deaths Town sub-district Uxbridge Road vaccination ventilation Vestry Vestry's water supply West Middlesex Whooping Cough Zymotic Diseases
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Page 49 - Regulations for the following matters : that is to say : — 1 . — For Fixing the Number of Persons who may occupy a House, or Part of a House, which is Let in Lodgings, or occupied by Members of more than One Family. 2. — For the Registration of Houses thus let or occupied in Lodgings. 3.— For the Inspection of such Houses, and the keeping of the same in a cleanly and wholesome state.
Page 74 - No overflow or waste-pipe other than a " warningpipe " shall be attached to any cistern supplied with water by the company, and every such overflow or waste-pipe existing at the time when these regulations come into operation shall be removed, or at the option of the consumer shall be converted into an efficient
Page 19 - ... that such provision could be best made in a comprehensive and systematic manner by one central authority acting for the whole metropolis.
Page 54 - ... (iii.) For securing the cleanliness of milkstores, milk-shops, and of milk-vessels used for containing milk for sale by such persons. (iv.) For prescribing precautions to be taken for protecting milk against infection or contamination. (v.) For authorising a local authority to make regulations for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them, subject to such conditions, if any, as the Privy Council prescribe.
Page 49 - ... 2. For the registration of houses thus let or occupied in lodgings : 3. For the inspection of such houses, and the keeping the same in a cleanly and wholesome state : 4. For enforcing therein the provision of privy accommodation and other appliances and means of cleanliness in proportion to the number of lodgings and occupiers, and the cleansing and ventilation of the common passages and staircases : 5. For the cleansing and lime-whiting at stated times of such premises...
Page 22 - ... smallpox poison if it be true that it may be carried long distances through the air. Amongst a number of persons, consisting of children, new-born infants, and young women in confinement, there were likely to have been some susceptible subjects. The poison was there, and not only in the block referred to, but in certain winds it would be blown from three similar blocks which are parallel to it. Thus air liable to contamination by about 250 small-pox patients might on two different occasions,...
Page 74 - ... within two calendar months next after the company shall have given to the occupier of, or left at the premises in which such cistern is situate, a notice in writing requiring such alteration to be made.
Page 77 - Thames 85 basin: in dry seasons it constitutes the sole supply of the Thames and the Lea, and even after the most protracted drought, more than 350,000,000 gallons of it daily flow over the weir at Teddington, whilst a further very large volume of it joins the Thames lower down.
Page 20 - ... shall see fit, to permit any person who shall apply to the said authority, on the ground that he is infested with vermin, to have the use, free of charge, of the apparatus (if any) which the authority possess for cleansing the person and his clothing from vermin. The use of such apparatus shall not be considered to be parochial relief or charitable allowance to the person using the same, or to the parent of such person, and no such person or parent shall by reason thereof, be deprived of any...
Page 53 - The Privy Council may from time to time make such general or special orders as they think fit, subject and according to the provisions of this Act...