INDEX
Adulteration of Food Act, 1860, 182–4
Aldwych, 413
Allison, Dr., evidence quoted, 28
Alteration of Food and Drink and Drugs Act, 1872, 238
Artizans’ and Labourers’ Dwellings Act, 1868, 212–3, 254–5, 282
Artizans’ and Labourers’ Dwellings Improvement Act, 1875, 256–8, 264
Amendment Act, 1879, 265, 292–5
Avery Hill, 414
Bakehouses, 171–2, 275, 374, 381–2, 404
Bakehouse Regulation Act, 1863, 183, 275
Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J., 396–7
Ball, Decimus, 323
Ballard, Dr., 252
Barnett, Canon, 294
Bateson, Dr. Henry, reports quoted, 150, 286–7
Baths and Wash-houses, 39, 126, 252
Baths and Wash-houses Act, 1846, 39, 252
Battersea, 98, 177, 203, 229, 284, 392
Beaconsfield, Lord, 287
Beale, James, 186
Bedfordbury, 259–60
Bermondsey, 17, 23, 98, 116, 144, 177, 188, 220, 250–1, 300, 309, 332–3, 347–8, 354, 431
Bethnal Green, 46–7, 74, 97, 103, 108, 120, 129, 138, 145, 177, 188, 190, 202, 219, 222, 268, 288, 291, 293, 303, 308–10, 333–4, 353, 364, 375, 383, 386–7, 393
Billingsgate Market, 416
Birth-rate, decline of, 350, 402–3
Bloomsbury, 314
Boundary Street Area, 364
Bow, 393
Bristowe, Dr. J. S., 400
Brockwell Park, 414
Bromley, 159
Building Act, 1844, 30, 164
Burial grounds, 35–7, 54–5, 64, 67, 231, 309–10
Burnett, J., report quoted, 335
Burnham Beeches, 414
Camberwell, 98, 104, 137, 144, 155, 190, 219, 222, 267, 288, 291, 305, 309, 334, 354, 406
Census of 1851, 56, 410
of 1861, 155–7
of 1871, 221–2
of 1881, 288–9
of 1891, 349–52
of 1896, 379
of 1901, 401–2, 422
Central Health Authority needed, 195–6, 277–8, 431–2
Cesspools, 18, 51, 104, 128, 159, 229
Chadwick, Edwin, 47
Chamberlain, Rt. Hon. Joseph, 293, 308
Cheap Trains Act, 1863, 362
Chelsea, 98, 141, 197–8, 255, 267, 288, 354
Children’s Employment, Commission on, 210–1
Cholera epidemics, of 1832, 2, 46
of 1848, 45–6
of 1849, 46–9, 63
of 1853, 72–5, 164
of 1866, 189–92
Chichester, Bishop of, speech in 1850, 66
“Christopher Court,” Whitechapel, 28
“City,” the, its commercial character, 7–9
its government, 9, 417
its sanitary condition, 50
its declining population, 94–5, 155, 222, 224, 288, 352, 401–2
construction of business premises, 367, 394
Amalgamation Committee, 396
Clare Market scheme, 364
Clerkenwell, 22, 74, 97, 102–3, 109, 115, 120, 124, 126, 185, 245, 261–2, 288, 303, 307–8, 314, 321, 323, 333, 353, 355
Common lodging houses, 67, 132, 145, 253
erected by L.C.C., 366, 410
Common Lodging Houses Act, 1851, 67, 132
Commons, acquisition of, 206, 282
Compulsory Vaccination Act, 1867, 208
Consumption, 146, 170
Contagious Diseases Animals Act, of 1869, 237
of 1878, 275–6
Coulsdon Common, 414
Cowhouses and dairies, 275, 318
Cremation Act, 1902, 409
Cripplegate, 165
Cross, Sir R. A., 256
Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1890, 344–5
Density of building, 25, 28, 98, 203, 329–30
Deptford, 74, 347
Derby, Lord, 165
Dickens, Charles, on burial grounds, 36
speech in 1850, 65
Dilke, Sir Charles, 308
Diphtheria, 146, 386
Diseases Prevention Act, 1848, 79, 152
Diseases Prevention (Metropolis) Act, 1883, 318–9
Disinfection, 194, 248, 252, 358, 385
Dispensaries, 389
District Boards created, 83–9
inefficiency and inactivity, 183–7, 267–73, 301–8, 321–2, 398–9
abolition, 398–9
Drunkenness connected with overcrowding and insanitation, 130, 142–3, 157–8, 176, 263, 391–2
Dunraven, Lord, 336–7
East London Water Co., 106, 191–2
Education (London) Act, 1903, 406, 421
Elementary Education Act, 1870, 219, 346
Epping Forest, 414
Factories, overcrowding in, 113, 173–4, 193, 334–7
Royal Commission of 1876, 274
need of inspection, 373–4
Factory Act of 1864, 183
of 1867, 210–1
of 1878, 274–5
of 1891, 370
of 1901, 403–4
Farr, Dr. W., 189
Fever, prevalence of, 4, 32–4
connection with cholera, 47
Finsbury, 16, 314–5, 423–4, 430
Finsbury Park, 206
Flight, 323–4
Forster, W. E., speech quoted, 242
Fulham, 98, 100–1, 112, 115, 131, 159–61, 166–7, 191, 204, 214, 219, 222, 226, 228, 252, 288, 307, 374, 380, 393, 401–2
Gladstone, W. E., 312
Godwin, George, 173, 181
Goulston Street scheme, 293
Grainger, Dr., evidence quoted, 48–9
Granville, Lord, 165
Gray’s Inn Road, 295
Greenwich, 17, 74, 98, 101, 124, 222, 309, 332
Grey, Sir G., 70
Griffith, Dr. J., evidence quoted, 21–2
Grosvenor, Lord Robert, 66
Hackney, 17, 97, 100, 103, 117, 123, 136, 179, 190, 197–8, 222, 228, 230, 267, 288, 309, 334, 373, 393, 401
Hackney Marsh acquired, 414
Hainault Forest, 414
Hall, Sir Benjamin, 73
Hammersmith, 101, 204, 226, 383, 430
Hampstead, 97, 100, 125, 351, 375
Hampstead Heath acquired, 206
Harcourt, Sir William, 311
Hickson, W. E., evidence quoted, 26
Holborn, 97, 123, 127, 155, 164, 170, 255, 314, 353–4
Hornsey, 351
Hospitals for infectious diseases, 209–10, 283, 318–9, 387–8
Hospitals, voluntary, 390
Houses, defective building of, 227–9, 232, 273
Housing of the Working Classes Act of 1885, 325–6
of 1890, 342, 363–6, 398
Housing of the Working Classes Commission, 317, 319, 321–5
Hunter, Dr., 185–6
Immigration into London, 156, 221, 225–6, 288–91, 336, 349, 402
Infectious and contagious diseases, 194, 208–9, 239–40, 263, 266, 276, 283, 318–9, 343–4, 357, 385–8, 403, 407–8
Infectious Diseases Notification Act, 1889, 342–3
Inspectors of Nuisances, 86, 91, 188–9, 193–4, 307–9, 324–5, 334–5, 358
their insufficient number, 379–80, 382–3
Islington, 97, 99, 108, 120, 127, 155, 177, 180, 188, 201, 222, 224–5, 279–80, 288, 351, 355, 374, 380–1, 392–3, 424
Jacob’s Island, foul water in, 23
Jewish sanitary laws, 143, 146, 149
Kenry, Lord, 371
Kensington, 98–9, 105, 121, 188, 219, 222, 225, 230, 278–9, 288, 355, 375, 383, 430
Kingsway, 413
Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act of 1851, 69–70, 326
of 1867, 326
Lakeman, 371
Lambeth, 12, 17, 30, 98, 103, 105, 116, 122–4, 155, 188, 203, 222, 251–2, 267, 300, 309, 352, 354–5, 375, 424–5, 431
Lambeth Water Company, 73
Lancet, The, description of the Thames, 77
Lankester, Dr., 189
Laundries, public, 126
Lea Conservancy Board, 208
Lewisham, 98, 102, 144
Liddle, Dr. J., 399
Limehouse, 97–8, 111, 120, 163, 188, 251, 258, 279, 393
Little Coram Street, Bloomsbury, 262–3
Local government of the “City,” 9
of Greater London, 11–4
lack of central authority, 13
Act passed in 1855, 82
Local Government Board Act, 1871, 232–3, 419
Local Government (England and Wales) Act, 1894, 382
Locomotion, additional facilities needed, 432
London, Bishop of, speech in 1850, 64
London County Council created, 338–9
powers given by Public Health Act, 1891, 359–61
and by Housing Act, 1890, 363–6
constituted education authority, 406–9, 418
summary of its work, 420
London Fever Hospital Report, 1845, 32
London Government Act, 1899, 396–7
London Government Bill, 1884, 311–3
Lynch, Dr. J., 33–4, 261
Marylebone. See St. Marylebone
Measles, 408
Meat, inspection of imported, 318
Medical Officers of Health, their duties, 86, 91, 96
their reports, 92–3
their treatment by local authorities, 189
their labours, 399–400
Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855, 82, 110, 185
Metropolis Turnpike Trusts Act, 1828, 24
Metropolis Water Act, 1852, 71, 160, 191
Metropolitan Asylums Board, 210, 418, 420
Metropolitan Board of Works constituted, 83–5
abolished, 337–41
Metropolitan Building Act of 1844, 24, 76
of 1855, 88, 164, 204, 231
Metropolitan Burials Act, 1852, 55
Metropolitan Gas Act, 1860, 184
Metropolitan Market Act, 1851, 247
Metropolitan Paving Act, 1817, 12, 24
Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, 208–10
Metropolitan Sanitary Association, 106
Metropolitan Sewers Commission, evidence before, 18–9
Metropolitan Water Amendment Act, 1871, 233–5
Metropolitan Water Board, 405–6, 418, 420
Middlemen, 323–4
Midwives Act, 1902, 409
Mile-End-Old-Town, 97, 99, 131, 163, 166, 227, 278, 288, 309, 333, 347, 383
Milk trade, 275, 318
Millbank estate, 366
“Model dwellings,” 368–70
Morpeth, Lord, 43–4
Mortality, in the fifties, 120–1, 129–30, 144–5, 148, 150
in the sixties, 153, 156, 176–8, 191, 219–20, 223
in the seventies, 263, 278–81, 283
in the eighties, 292, 346–8
in the nineties, 350–1, 364, 392–3, 402
Mortuaries, 252, 358
Municipal Corporations Act, 1835, 78
Municipal Councils, created, 397–8, 417
their work, 421
Munro, J., 400
National Association for Promoting Social Science, 181
New Oxford Street formed, 29
New River Company, 20
Newington, 12, 98, 101, 115, 122, 124, 144, 155, 185, 190, 214, 220, 224, 248, 250, 285, 309, 347, 354, 376
Notting Dale, 121, 177
Noxious trades, 37–8, 53–4, 87, 114–7, 145–8, 246–7, 252, 415
Nuisances Act, 1846, 39–40, 45
Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act, 1855, 82–3, 86, 117, 415