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ANIMAL DISEASES.
ANIMAL DISEASES.
Included under this heading are glanders, hydrophobia and anthrax, all diseases which
are acquired from animals, and not passed from man to man.
Glanders.—No cases were reported among man during the year. Under the London
(Notification of Glanders) Order, 1907, ten outbreaks of the disease among horses were
reported last year, as compared with eleven in the previous year. Each outbreak reported is
made the subject of inquiry with a view to ascertaining the state of health of the men in contact
with the horses. The Department has no jurisdiction as regards the animals.
Anthrax.—One case (a male, aged 43 years) was reported during the year, but the case
appeared to have been notified under a misapprehension. Formerly, "anthrax'' was used as
synonymous with "carbuncle," the true nature of the case in question.
One horse was reported to have died of anthrax. The horse fell dead in the street, and
the disease was discovered when the carcase was cut up at the knackers' yard.
TUBERCULOUS DISEASES.
The deaths certified as due to tuberculosis in all its forms numbered 170 last year,
showing a considerable decrease from any of the totals recorded during the preceding five
years. In 1905 such deaths numbered 192, in 1906 216, in 1907 219, in 1908 190, and in 1909
204. The deaths from the five forms of tuberculosis detailed in these reports are given in
Table 17. The total mortality rate was 1.11 per 1,000 persons, 0.25 less than the mean rate
for the five years 1905-09 (1.36), but while the rate for females fell from 0.97 to 0.86 (a
reduction of 11.4 per cent.) that for males fell from 1.88 to 1.46 (a reduction of 22.4 per cent.)

The deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis (127) were equal to a mortality of 0.83 or 0.18
less than the quinquennial mean rate (1.01). The rate for males showed a reduction of 22.8
per cent., and that for females, one of 8.9 per cent. The mortality from the remaining four
other forms (0.27) was 0.06 less than the mean (0.33), the rate for males showing a greater
reduction (0.06) than that for females (0.03).
It will be seen from Table 10 that the local nett rate from phthisis (0.84) was exceeded
by the rates recorded in the Metropolis as a whole (1.14), Westminster (1.11), and Marylebone
(1.09), and that the local rate from other tuberculous diseases (0.28) by those recorded in the
Metropolis (0.40) and Willesden (0.35). The corrected rates (Table 19) are to the same
effect.