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other forms of septic disease, mostly in hospital
cases.
Alcoholism caused 11 deaths; but there were
many others in which the deaths were indirectly
due to this cause.
In the constitutional class there were 7 deaths
from rheumatism, 8 from rickets, and 66 from
cancer.
The deaths from cancer in the previous year
were 60 ; in 1897, 65 ; in 1896, 58 ; in 1895, 50;
in 1594, 42 ; and in 1893, 37. Of the deaths from
cancer 33 took place in the parish, and 33 in hospitals.
There were 9 deaths between the ages of
25 and 45 years, and 57 between 45 and 85 years
of age.
In the tubercular order there were 289 deaths,
or 14.0 per cent. of the total. In the previous
year these deaths numbered 274; in 1897, 278;
in 1896, 266; and in 1895, 297. These deaths
included 21 from tabes mesenterica, 58 from
meningitis, 174 from phthisis, and 36 from general
tuberculosis. The phthisis death-rate in Bermondsey
before distribution of the hospital cases
was 1.24, but after such distribution, 2.14.