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with childbirth. The deaths registered as having been caused by diseases and accidents associated
with parturition (sixteen in all), were equal to 4.7 per 1,000 live births, compared with rates
of 2.2, 3.5, and 2 0 per 1,000 in the three preceding years respectively.
Erysipelas was the cause of six deaths, 4 of them in the Town sub.district. The notifications
were 149 in number.
Tuberculosis in its various forms was the cause of 299 deaths, as compared with 285, 342,
and 273, in the preceding three years; 259 in the Town sub.district, and 40 in Brompton; 55 of
them under five years of age. Tubercular Phthisis (Pulmonary Tuberculosis) was the certified
cause of 168 deaths (148 and 20 in the Town and Brompton sub.districts respectively), and
"Phthisis" of 46: total 214; or 119 per 1,000 of the population. Tubercular Meningitis was
the cause of 29 deaths; Tubercular Peritonitis of 18; and General Tuberculosis of 29. The deaths
from tubercular diseases were, proportionately to population, not so numerous in Brompton as
in the Town sub.district. The total deaths were in the proportion of 1.7 per 1,000 of the population.
Further information on the subject of Tuberculosis will be found at pp. 44 and 52.