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but under this term I have included all diseases, both of the
heart muscle and of the valves.
On making a comparison with the figures for 1897 it will
be seen that accidental or other violence in which are included
all cases of drowning, &c.) amounted to 124 in 1898, as compared
with 133 in the previous year. The deaths ascribed to
developmental diseases (premature birth, &c.), and to convulsions
of infancy numbered 371 and 92, as contrasted with 345
and 124 in 1897. Seventeen deaths were certified as due to
the immediate or remote effects of child-birth, and of that
number seven were ascribed to "puerperal fever," under which
heading I have, as heretofore, included septic diseases connected
with child-birth. Tuberculous diseases caused 596
deaths in 1898, as compared with 551 in 1897 and 618 in 1896.
There were 231 deaths from cancer, against 214 in 1897, and 234
in 1896. Under this heading I have included all the forms of
fatal malignant new growths. Inflammatory affections of the
lungs and pleura caused 735 deaths, as compared with 771 in
1897, and 834 in 1896. Of these, 355 were deaths of children
under the age of five years. It is, however, possible that a
certain number of these cases of pleurisy ought really to come
under the head of tubercle, as modern opinion seems to incline
to the belief that the majority of cases of pleurisy are tuberculous
in origin.
Among the "zymotic" diseases hooping cough caused
121 deaths, and measles 113 deaths, compared with 101 and
125 that were respectively ascribed to these two diseases in the
previous year."
The re-distributed figures considered in regard to the
registration districts in respect of these two diseases were as
follows:- In Camberwell, 47 and 33;in Peckham, 57 and 51;
in St. George's, 17 and 28.
Included in the Camberwell deaths are two deaths from
measles that occurred in the Infirmary.
The deaths from influenza amounted in all to 86, compared
with 31 that occurred in 1897. This disease prevailed
in the greatest intensity during the first quarter of the year,
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