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The deaths from Measles, Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria are in
excess of those from the same causes last year, when they were
respectively 14, 15 and 6.
The Zymotic death rate for the past five years is as follows:
1890 2.8
1891 2.8
1892 2.4
1893 2.6
1894 2.6
Phthisis
Mortality,
etc.
In class IV. 126 deaths are recorded as arising from
some form of tubercular disease, of which number 54
occurred in the Dockyard Registration Sub-District, and 72 in the
Arsenal Registration Sub-District.
The great difference between these numbers is occasioned by the
deaths from Tabes Mesenterica, Tubercular Meningitis and Hydrocephalus,
amounting to 10 in the Dockyard Registration Sub-District
and 25 in the Arsenal. 28 of such deaths were of children under 5
years of age and 5 of the remaining 7 were between the ages of 5 and 15.
The deaths registered during the past five years as arising from
Tubercular causes were as follows :
1890 126
1891 139
1892 112
1893 121
1894 126
I have in previous reports drawn marked attention to the mortality
from Tubercular causes in the district, and indicated its grave importance.
There is no doubt that in most, if not all of the older houses of the
district, there is no provision to prevent dampness, and especially is
this the case with the houses in North Woolwich.
The Sanitary Authority must insist upon all proper means being
adopted to remedy this very great evil, fraught as it is with the most
serious injury to health.
In class 6, including the deaths from Laryngitis there will be found to
be 133 deaths, 55 of these occurred in the Dockyard Registration SubDistrict
and 78 in the Arsenal Registration Sub-District.