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Tuberculous diseases constitute the next class of causes in which St.
Giles' district is conspicuously fatal beyond the average of London. The ten
localities appear to suffer from these complaints very much in the order of
their poverty, and this is to be expected from the conditions of privation and
exposure under which consumptive diseases chiefly arise. But the three
districts lowest on the list have an especial reason for high tubercular mortality
in the large number of common lodging houses they contain. These
establishments often constitute the last alternative with the workhouse for
persons suffering from incurable maladies, and consumption is one of the
diseases that always prevails to an extreme extent in the districts where such
houses abound.
Diseases of the lungs have been fatal in the ten localities in the proportions
below specified. After what has been said concerning the influence of
exposure with insufficient food and clothing upon the production of these
diseases, there is no remark of importance to be made upon the order of this
table.