Overcrowding, in the forties, 29–34
in the fifties, 55–6, 107–14, 119, 127, 133–4, 145
legislation against, 87, 147–9, 193–4, 197
in the sixties, 165–77, 198–200, 202–3
in the seventies, 224–5, 243–6
in the eighties, 313–6, 332–3
in the nineties, 354–6, 371, 375–6
in 1901, 422–6

Paddington, 98, 100, 102, 123, 155, 163, 168, 180–1, 184, 188, 201, 203–4, 220, 222, 224, 226, 248–9, 252, 279, 288, 290, 309, 376, 407–8, 425–6
Palmerston, Lord, 75
Parks and recreation grounds, 122, 206, 282, 414
Pauperism, 139
Paving boards in middle of nineteenth century, 12
Peabody Trustees, 265, 296
Pear Tree Court, Clerkenwell, 261
Pennethorne, J., 28
Phillips, J., 19
Physical deterioration, 426–7
Plumstead, 98, 267
Poor Law Act of 1879, 283
of 1889, 344
Poor Law Guardians, 407
Poplar, 97, 120, 123, 126, 155, 190, 199, 222, 227, 230, 254, 279, 284, 288, 300, 309, 331, 376, 393
Population, growth of, 9–10, 80, 155–7, 221–5, 288–9, 349–52, 401–2, 410
Port of London Sanitary Authority, 239–41, 283, 317–8, 416
Printing works, 172–3
Privy Council, medical department of, 152, 171
Public Health Act of 1848, 51–2, 79
of 1858, 152
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, 356–60, 385, 408, 412–3, 415–6, 429–30
Purvis, W., 237–8

Redesdale, Lord, 165
Registrar-General’s Report after census of 1861, 154
Rendell, Dr. William, 142–50, 175, 186–7, 189
Ritchie, C. T., 338, 359
Rodwell, Hunter, 271
Rosebery, Earl of, 341
Rotherhithe, 17, 36, 74, 98, 101, 105, 108, 114, 116, 117, 144, 177, 206, 220, 252, 280–1, 333–4
Ross, 323
Russell, Lord John, 66
Russell Court, Drury Lane, burial ground in, 36

St. George, Hanover Square, 98, 137, 188, 212, 288, 351
St. George-in-the-East, 102–3, 106, 120, 233, 253, 278, 288, 303, 352–4, 391, 393
St. Giles’, 28, 68, 97, 99, 100, 105, 108–10, 113, 124, 130, 139, 168, 176, 178, 191, 199–200, 224, 250, 252, 255, 260, 262–3, 305, 313–4, 375–6
St. James’, Westminster, 97–8, 102, 109, 125, 130, 155, 170, 179, 189–90, 222–3, 249–52, 256, 272, 288, 290, 352, 369, 394
St. Luke, 97, 108, 219, 231, 255, 293, 314, 334, 353, 355, 364, 368
St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 97, 102, 129, 155, 161, 214, 352
St. Marylebone, 30, 97, 100, 105, 124, 181, 188, 222, 225, 232, 250, 280, 288, 299, 309, 354, 369, 374
St. Pancras, 97, 108, 115, 125–6, 128–9, 132, 155, 164, 169, 175, 188, 256, 268, 273, 279, 299, 304, 309, 348, 353, 367, 424, 430
Salisbury, Marquess of, 317, 322, 325–6
Sandhurst, Lord, 337
Sanitary Act, 1866, 193, 199–202, 217–8, 254, 266, 300, 302, 324, 429
Sanitary Law Amendment Act, 1874, 266, 305, 429
Scarlet fever, 249, 386, 415
Schools, overcrowding in, 113–4, 174, 244–6
defective drainage in, 421–2
School Board for London, 283–4, 292, 313–5, 406–7, 418
Scrofula, 58, 170
Sewers, early statutes relating to, 14
glaring inefficiency in the forties, 15–7
in the City in the fifties, 50–1, 60
plan adopted by the M.B.W., 90–1
medical officers’ reports in 1856, 100–3
attention paid by Vestries and District Boards, 123, 249–51
M.B.W.’s scheme carried out, 158–9, 281, 411
L.C.C.’s report, 411–2
Sewers, Commissioners of, before Act of 1848, their authority, 9, 11, 15
their incapacity, 15–7
after Act of 1848, 41–2
superseded, 84
Shaftesbury (Ashley), Lord, 32, 47, 64, 66, 165, 174, 176, 274, 307, 366
carries Act to regulate common lodging houses, 67–8
Labouring Classes Lodging Houses Act, 69
Shops, 172
Shoreditch, 37, 97, 105, 111–2, 120, 166, 188, 228, 251, 267, 288, 309, 353, 355, 368, 380–1, 393, 425, 430
Simon, Dr. John, 50–62, 120, 171, 192, 215–7, 248, 286
Simpson, W., 29
Slaughter-houses, 247
Smallpox, 38–9, 146, 150, 208, 235–6, 269, 319, 386, 403
Smith, Dr. Southwood, 4, 6, 25–6, 151
Smithfield Market, 416
Society for Establishing Public Baths and Washhouses, 126
Society for Improving the Condition of the Working Classes, 70
Soho, 391
Southwark, 17, 98, 111, 120, 128, 131, 135–6
parish of St. George-the-Martyr described, 142–52, 167, 189, 214–5, 222, 224, 228, 230, 267, 279, 284, 305–6, 334, 347, 354, 364, 369, 374, 375, 393, 400, 424
Southwark Water Company, 21, 73, 192
Spitalfields, 28, 161, 245–6, 253
Stanley, Lyulph, 295
Stepney, 401, 424–5, 430
Strand, 97, 100, 110, 112–3, 115, 117, 123, 128, 133, 140, 176, 212, 223–4, 259, 288–90, 347, 352, 364, 392
Street improvements, 29, 205–6, 413–4
Sutherland, Dr., 75
Sweating, Select Committee on, 337, 370–2

Tenement Houses, 313–6, 353–6, 358, 375, 422–5, 428–31
See also “Overcrowding”
Thames, the, sewers discharged into, 15–6, 21
source of water supply, 21–2
The Lancet’s description, 77
a Medical Officer’s words in 1858, 117–8
Embankment constructed, 207, 282
Thames Purification Act passed, 207–8
scope of Conservancy Board extended, 208
Port of London regulations, 239–41, 283
new treatment of sewage adopted, 332
Torrens, Mr., 213
Towns Improvement Act, 1847, 79
Tramways Act, 1870, 219
Tremenheere, H. S., 171
Typhus, prevalence of in 1838, 4
in 1847, 43
in the “City” in the fifties, 58, 112, 147

Vaccination Act of 1836, 208
of 1871, 237
Vestries created, 83–9
inefficiency and inaction, 183–7, 266–73, 301–8, 321–2, 398–9
abolition, 398–9
Victoria sewer, 76
Vinen, Dr. N., 400
Vulliamy, G., 229

Wales, the Prince of (now King Edward VII.), 317, 364
Wandsworth, 98, 100, 124, 155, 177, 219, 222, 228, 230, 250, 279, 289, 402
Water supply, disgraceful condition of, 20–3, 104–7, 160–2, 191–2
for the “City,” 51–2
Act of Reform passed in 1852, 71
Act of 1871, 233–5
Act of 1887, 331
Royal Commission of 1892–3, 383–4
Act of 1902, 405–6
general survey, 412–3
Waterlow Park, 414
Webber Row scheme, 364
Westminster (see also St. James), 16, 97–8, 108, 110, 115, 126, 161, 167, 177, 201, 222, 288, 300, 303, 346, 375, 377, 430
Whitechapel, 33, 97, 99, 103–4, 114, 117, 121, 126–7, 130–1, 153, 160–1, 166, 168–9, 178, 200–1, 219, 229, 231, 243, 245–6, 253, 278, 288, 290, 293–5, 353, 368, 391–2, 399
Williams, T. Marchant, 313–6
Window tax, 26
Woolwich, 98, 332
Workhouses and infirmaries, 209, 389–90
Workmen’s trains, 296–7
Workshop Regulation Act, 1867, 211–2

Zymotic diseases, 42–3, 118, 131, 163, 170, 260–1